Patxi López joins the ranks of those who never knew Zapatero

Patxi López also distances himself from Zapatero

How many socialist leaders does it take for the PSOE (Spain's Socialist Party) to look like a single party? The question gains weight every day. Patxi López has uttered the phrase that is already part of political folklore: "The Zapatero I knew..." – a formula that serves to bury any link with the party's past.

The sequence is devastating. Four days ago, Pedro Sánchez claimed that Begoña was not his vvife. Before that, nobody knew Ábalos, Cerdán or Leire Díaz. Now the former lehendakari (Basque regional premier) joins the trend with his own particular version of not knowing anyone. The result is a party in which its main figures seem to have met at a convention of ghosts.

The cost of political amnesia

It is not just a matter of anecdotes. Internal instability is paid for in the markets. Investors look for predictability, and a party that disowns its own history, with such audacity, sends a worrying signal. Regardless of political colour: institutional credibility is built on coherence, not on armchair amnesiacs.

Laughter and the corpse

Social media has turned the affair into a comedy festival: Patxi's eyebrows now have a life of their own, as the comment about them shows. Someone has even ironically wondered whether the former lehendakari would also claim not to know Isaías Carrasco, the socialist murdered by ETA. Black humour for a party that dug its own grave with the shovel of disloyalty.

The conclusion is simple: when everyone disowns everyone else, the party becomes a question without an answer. And the economy, meanwhile, watches.