Sevilla, who served as Minister of Public Administrations under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, presented the nine-page document, arguing that the current party leadership has led to “a rise of the far-right” and a “dictatorship of minorities.” The manifesto aims to consolidate a critical current within the party.
We defend a policy that returns to placing people at the center, moving away from the permanent spectacle and calculated confrontation. A policy that renounces insult as a tool.
The text criticizes Sánchez's “populist confrontational discourse” and his reliance on “asymmetrical alliances” in the Congress, without naming him directly. It also highlights the failure of the economic model to translate growth (seen in the Ibex 35) into improved purchasing power for middle and working-class families.
Socialdemocracia 21 emphasizes that the major transformations required by Spain can only be addressed through a culture of democratic pact and institutional consensus. The movement positions itself as being “more a child of the Transition and the Constitution” than of the Civil War era.
