Do you know the one that says…?” Thus would begin a hypothetical political chronicle of the legendary Eugenio who wanted to explain that the PP has verbalized its intention to propitiate the abstention of Junts to make Alberto Núñez Feijóo president of the Government of Spain.
In the attempt to give meaning to the investiture of the Galician proposed by Felipe VI to place it beyond popular interests (strengthening the leader in front of his own parish and in the face of an eventual electoral repeat), the conservatives have written the best joke of the political season. No screenwriter, no matter how good the psychotropics he consumes, will be able to surpass him.
The imminent failed investiture of Feijóo requires a lot of theatricality so that it can defend itself with solid arguments, regardless of the virtue of starting the ticking of new elections so as not to perpetuate a state of institutional provisionality that always causes more anxiety from the one that touches and recover as soon as possible the maximum performance of the legislative and executive powers. Therefore, the popular propaganda machinery has been working hard for days to create the illusion of expectations of success that simply do not exist, except for the remake of the tamayazo of exactly two decades ago in the Assembly of Madrid.
Feijóo is tireless and capable of anything. We are four deputies away from the absolute majority! This is what the popular gear says. Only that in this inflated backpack with 172 deputies there are the 33 of Vox, which make impossible the feasibility of any other arrangement other than the ones he has already achieved with Coalició Canària, UPN and the ultra-right itself.
The PNB, which is in the same joke as Junts, even if its case is much less so, has already said through the mouth of its parliamentary spokesman, Aitor Esteban, not to even talk about it, that they will not be in any equation in which also there are those of Santiago Abascal. And in Junts, Carles Puigdemont’s laughter was heard all over Belgium. From Bruges to Liege and from Charleroi to Antwerp.
Beyond the joke, which it is in the short and medium term, what is indeed interesting is to observe whether the change of needles that the popular people are putting into practice takes root as a long-term strategy. The dialectic of the naturalization of Junts as a political interlocutor practiced by Esteban González Pons, vice secretary of institutional affairs, or by the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, was born with an impossible goal in the present time, but it may mark the full awareness of of the popular people who cannot live isolated in a corner waiting for an absolute majority to fall from the sky or for the sum with Vox to arrive one day to govern.
The insistence of Feijóo and his commanders on the will to speak and dialogue with all, with the exception of Bildu, seems to obey the will of the Galician to draw a future for his own party with his own course, regardless of the ferri marking to which Vox will continue to subject him to the moral and territorial axes. That in Junts there are cadres with a predisposition to negotiate with the PP if the circumstances make it possible one day is a fact. It is also known that among joint voters there is a nationalist conservative who feels much more comfortable with the social and economic agenda of the popular than with that of the PSOE-Sumar duo. But the territorial view of the PP and Junts, and above all the interpretation and the facts of the recent past, make any hint of collaboration impossible.
However, let’s stick with the “talk to everyone” thing. The same things that the popular people said until yesterday about the pro-independence parties, were also verbalized by the socialists. And on the contrary, the same things that are said about the PP from the point of view of sovereignty, were also felt directed at the socialists. It starts with something. And this “something” is to naturalize the political interlocutor and grant him legitimacy. This is what the PP seems to be doing with Junts for a few days and what González Pons and Bendodo insisted on yesterday, with different intensity and conviction. It’s no use today. But it might come in handy in the future. Until then, let’s laugh. Nothing like a well-told joke to forget the heat for a minute.
