What started as an idea thrown into the air, is becoming in the last few hours a pressure that makes some socialist deputies uncomfortable, who may be refractory to the amnesty but have no intention of betraying their party. Cuca Gamarra has gone from television to television encouraging socialists who may be critical of the measure of grace to support Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who will try to be sworn in as president on the 27th, knowing that he lacks four votes. The Andalusian president, Manuel Moreno, has also done so publicly. To know what they must be doing in private.
The PSOE has bounced back in the face of these pressures and the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has appeared on the scene to say that he may not be in favor of some of his party’s measures, but that he will never seek nor will he protect, no defector. Minister María Jesús Montero recalled that transfuguism is a form of political corruption and an anti-democratic practice.
The political history of this country teaches us that the PP does not save on expenses when it comes to accessing the government, as happened twenty years ago, which managed to prevent Rafael Simancas from being president of the Community of Madrid thanks to the votes of two socialist deputies, Eduardo Tamayo and María Teresa Sáez, who abstained. It is what journalism called “tamayazo”, a term that sooner or later will enter the dictionary.
Politics lost its scruples a long time ago and everything is worth to achieve power. Not only in Spain. George Clemenceau once said that “a traitor is a man who left his party to join another, while a convert is a traitor who left his party to join ours”. We’ll see what happens this coming week.
Perhaps parliamentarians should read Shakespeare, who had King Lear say that treason is worse than murder. Or Dante, who placed them in the last circle of hell, where they were devoured by Lucifer himself. The bad thing is that later Anatole France came and proclaimed that in politics there are no traitors, only losers, and we are in these: expectant before what happens on Wednesday.
