Why Felipe González is no longer a member of the PSOE

BarcelonaBefore the sentence was made public, Felipe González had already taken it upon himself to call it "garbage," "political corruption," and "barrabassada." This was in fact the case during Zapatero's era. His tragedy is that he can no longer join the PP, the party to which he is undoubtedly closest today, without losing the little credit he retains and betraying his biography. González, like Alfonso Guerra and others, represents a PSOE that is now frankly a minority, a central aspect: the 1978 Constitution cannot be perfected and the Transition is untouchable. But the Socialists have long since begun to question the Transition. He was critical of Zapatero and especially of his historical memory law, which questioned the narrative that the Transition had brought about total reconciliation between the two sides in the Civil War. The discovery of mass graves from the war and the identification of bodies (the vast majority of whom were Republican victims who had not been exhumed) was considered by González and others of his ilk as an affront to the spirit of the Transition and the amnesia it had entailed. Rubalcaba opposed the Catalan Carme Chacón (whom he saw as too federalist), and in 2014 he did not publicly discuss the issue of Eduardo Madina, Rubalcaba's candidate and the always more moderate Basque Socialists, and Pedro Sánchez, the candidate sponsored by the barons to save him the seat in Susa, Andalusia. He would later confess that he had voted for the former. González was behind the operation to oust Sánchez in 2017, when he refused to swear in Mariano Rajoy and opened the scoring for Día. However, in 2021, he still took a photo with Sánchez at the party congress to project an image of unity. The PP and break with the left and the nationalists. But this anti-Sanchista PSOE will not return.