Pedro Sánchez's blunt rebuke of José Luis Ábalos amid PSOE power struggles

Pedro Sánchez José Luis Ábalos Santos Cerdán PSOE internal conflict Spain politics

Santos Cerdán says a July 6, 2019 phone call from Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez marked a turning point in Spain’s political negotiations. The conversation, according to Cerdán, gave him the green light to broker agreements with Basque nationalists that helped the Sánchez government stay in power, echoing earlier deals such as the 2018 motion of no‑confidence against Mariano Rajoy.

Newly released WhatsApp messages show Sánchez, a month before removing José Luis Ábalos as transport minister and party secretary, harshly criticizing Ábalos’s lack of political “pulse” and urging him to take stronger control of messaging on government events. The exchange illustrates growing tension within the PSOE leadership as Sánchez prepares to reshape the party’s organisational board.

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