Santos Cerdán claims he built PSOE's 'impossible majorities' in new book

Santos Cerdán, former secretary of organization of Spain’s ruling PSOE, has published a memoir in which he says he was the chief architect of the "impossible majorities" that have kept Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government in power. The book details his role in negotiating agreements with regional nationalist parties and in managing internal party strategies, presenting himself as a pivotal figure behind the parliamentary arithmetic that supports the executive.

The publication appears amid a wave of judicial scrutiny targeting the PSOE’s inner circle. A judge, Santiago Pedraz, has recently issued indictments against the head of the public‑sector employment institute SEPI and 24 other individuals linked to a case dubbed the "PSOE cloaca". The government’s attempt to shift the narrative toward social policies, such as a decree allocating €6.2 billion for dependency care, was quickly eclipsed by the new legal actions, highlighting the fragility of the administration’s political positioning.