That was a congress of socialist celebration, of light and color, of music, of exaltation of Sánchez’s internal peace, of the unity and fraternity of the family socialist around the patriarch Felipe González. The final photo of the 40th Congress with all the ge secretaries.
“This is a Congress like there has never been before and it will surely not be repeated in the future.” A socialist veteran thus defined the 40th Congress held in Valencia in October 2021.
One after another, the leaders who passed through them made similar ironic comments: “How good it is in here and how hard what is out there.” While the audience applaud them, encourage them, and take photos, the leaders cannot avoid the feeling of being in a castle besieged by a trickle of judicial decisions that has soured the phase prior to a congress that was originally designed to reinforce unity.
Zapatero, the only protective spirit of Pedro Sánchez
