“If the enemy is making a mistake, let’s not distract him.” This phrase, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, fits Pedro Sánchez like a glove before the protest called by the Popular Party tomorrow in Madrid and the investiture debate in which, just 48 hours later, Alberto Núñez Feijóo himself will appear.
A la Moncloa and Ferraz recognize that the strategy deployed by Feijóo since, almost a month ago, the King entrusted him with the investiture, does nothing more than propel Sánchez towards his re-election.
First of all, because of the same attempt by the leader of the PP to face an investiture that they insist is lost in advance, but to which he will present himself “together” with the ultra-right of Vox, which may be the best adhesive to articulate a block of yes to Sanchez And they consider that calling a protest against the investiture of the leader of the PSOE, encouraged by José María Aznar, just before Feijóo faces his, is the culmination of an erroneous strategy, filled with “daily blasphemies”, with which they ensure that the leader of the PP only aims to survive in the face of internal rivals.
The ultimate nonsense, they warn, is what they consider to be “an incitement to defections”, after PP heavyweights such as Juanma Moreno insisted yesterday on demanding that PSOE deputies rebel against Sánchez to invest Feijóo. Even the beneficiary of the tamayazo that in 2003 prevented Rafael Simancas from winning the presidency of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, trusted yesterday that a similar situation would happen again. Not to invest Feijóo, but to prevent the re-election of Sánchez.
A la Moncloa and A Ferraz warn that these proposals can only be the result of “desperation”, but they unite the PSOE and serve to strengthen a block of yes to Sánchez. “Now is the time for Feijóo’s investiture, but when it’s Sánchez’s time, he will have done as much of the road as possible”, they say to the PSOE leadership.
At the moment, while Feijóo’s investiture arrives, Sánchez has already formed two absolute majorities in the first steps of this still uncertain legislature: to form the Bureau of , with the socialist Francina Armengol as president, and to approve an express reform of his regulation that already guarantees the use of all co-official languages.
Absolute majorities – of 178 seats in the first case and up to 180 in the second, since Coalició Canària joined the linguistic consensus and there was the wrong vote of a PP deputy for a tip – that Sánchez should ‘try to consolidate to be able to face a four-year legislature, as he intends. But which, in any case, are much higher than the simple majority of 167 yeses, and the 18 abstentions of ERC and EH Bildu, which allowed his previous investiture in January 2020.
