However serious the world is, with Trump turning the United States into an authoritarian state and pushing the world to unprecedented levels of destabilization, and with the Iranian ayatollahs' regime experiencing a street uprising, we must address what's happening closer to home. And this continues to be, and will continue to be, called funding. Yes, it sounds like a song by that annoying guy, it has elements of... déjà-vu And we're at the top of the street: for the PSC and Esquerra it's the best possible agreement because the concert or something similar was impossible, for Junts it falls short precisely because it's not the concert, the PP (now part of the PSOE, we'll talk about it later) finds it scandalous that the Spanish government decides to share the money of all Spaniards with the Catalan separatists (it doesn't matter, because the Spanish government is also scandalous).

A movement has emerged within the Socialist ranks. Former minister Jordi Sevilla, who has been critical of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, has publicly made his move, presenting a manifesto on Monday advocating for "changing the party's course." Under the banner of "Social Democracy 21," Sevilla has launched a movement intended to become an internal faction within the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), seeking to attract members uncomfortable with Sánchez's leadership. However, he avoids mentioning names or explicitly calling for the replacement of the current Socialist Secretary General. He does, however, hold Sánchez's leadership responsible for the rise of the far right and the polarization gripping the country. "We want the PSOE to recover an autonomous, social-democratic, transformative, inspiring, and majority-based project, focused on citizens' problems and open to democratic consensus with its political adversaries on matters of state," he states. When asked about it, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez admitted that the Seville movement had "caught his attention," but assured—after meeting with the Greek Prime Minister—that he respects all opinions. In addition to the written manifesto, Seville also released a video on social media, in which he directly points out that the government of Pedro Sánchez and Sumar is failing young people because it is not solving the housing access problem or offering policies for the creation of "decent work." He labels the Spanish government's strategy as "populism based on electoral calculation" and laments the lack of "social democratic policies."

Those who disagree with Pedro Sánchez are concentrated in the old guard of the party, such as Felipe González or some baron Uncomfortable figures like Emiliano García-Page from Castilla-La Mancha. But some were also close collaborators of the Spanish president himself, such as Jordi Sevilla (Valencia, 1956), the former Socialist Minister of Public Administration who was loyal to former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, with whom he served in the Council of Ministers. This week he offered to help forge a pact between the PP and the PSOE "in two afternoons," as he said in an interview. Wave ZeroBecause, in his opinion, "we have to think about turning the page on Pedro Sánchez," with whom he was very close at the beginning of his leadership of the party. In fact, he was also president of Red Eléctrica, the state-owned electricity company, between 2018 and 2020, a period marked by tensions with former Spanish Vice President Teresa Ribera. However, his greatest influence was in the 2016 negotiations, marked by the agreement with Ciudadanos, which proved unsuccessful.