PSOE Internal Nicknames Found in Leire Diez Notebook

The List of Internal PSOE Nicknames Attributed to Leire Diez

A notebook. That is the object from which the entire story hangs. From it, according to circulating reports, emerged a list of nicknames used to label half of the PSOE leadership and some presidential family members. The roster is extensive: from the Deputy Prime Minister to a former Transport Minister, including the Organization Secretary and the President's brother. The document is presented as private notes by Pedro Sánchez's former right-hand woman at Moncloa, and its content has been enough to reopen the conversation about how colleagues are discussed when the microphone is off.

What first catches attention is not the wit. It is the roster. Almost no nickname stays within professional bounds: most point to physical traits, an alleged unkempt appearance, or private conduct. The list includes Yolanda Díaz, Patxi López, Pablo Iglesias, David Sánchez, Santos Cerdán, José Luis Ábalos, Ione Belarra, Paco Salazar, Koldo García, and María Chivite. And, as a finale, a label for Begoña Gómez that plays with her name and a cocoa cream brand.

Which Nicknames Appear in the List

The repertoire moves between hallway banter and outbursts. There are nicknames that seem pulled from a schoolyard and others that directly cross the line. Patxi López's accumulates up to three variants, one of them directly derogatory. Pablo Iglesias's recreates his appearance. Ábalos's alludes to an alcoholic habit. Ione Belarra's refers to her physique. Santos Cerdán's points to a supposed anatomical antiestéticature.

The thematic variety says much about the document: there is no criterion, just a repertoire. And that, more than any specific occurrence, is what has fueled the controversy. Because the material is not presented as an isolated after-dinner joke, but as a sustained record over time of how each person was perceived within the organization.

The Blue Notebook and Its Echo on Social Media

The spread of the list is attributed to a social media post presenting it as the protagonist's "blue notebook," containing the "most original" nicknames. From there, the content jumped into public conversation and became recurring commentary material. The notebook label—blue, due to the PSOE tonalidad—functions as both a wink and an accusation: what leaked were not statements, but a work diary.

@Fuensanta published the complete relationship alongside a screenshot. The tweet is the verifiable origin point of the list as it has circulated.

Context: Who Is Leire Diez

Leire Diez became known in 2026, and her name appears linked to the party apparatus and coordination tasks. Hence the nickname "fontanera" (plumber/fixer) accompanying the issue: the person who works underground, connects pipes, and knows the houses from the inside. The metaphor fits the material: a contact agenda, favors, and labels never intended for publication.

The list, if authentic, portrays a way of doing politics where the colleague is also a character to be named. If it is not, it portrays something else: the ease with which an attributed document circulates without verification. In both cases, the effect is the same. No one has refuted the content and no one has confirmed it.

What Is Really Being Discussed

The issue has two layers. The first is truthfulness: there is no official confirmation that these notes belong to the claimed author. The second is substance: even if apocryphal, the list describes an environment recognizable to anyone who has worked in a large organization. Internal nicknames exist everywhere. The difference here is that they leaked.

Some argue the uproar is disproportionate and that this is private humor taken out of context. Against this weighs the argument that some terms are niceties that, said publicly, would have cost the speaker their job. And a third, more cynical reading: the document matters less for what it says about those nicknamed than for what it says about who did the nicknaming.

With such a roster, the leak should have had consequences. None are recorded. That is the data that disorients.