The federal committee of the party unanimously approves the electoral lists for 23-J, despite the anger generated in several territories by the intervention of the federal leadership at the last minute. The two most critical territorial leaders of the PSOE – Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, and Javier Lambán, one of the great defeaters on 28-M – have not attended the conclave.

"We have climbed the 8,000 meters every day in these five years and I do not see an environment of change," says Sánchez.