Do you know the one that says…? Thus would begin a hypothetical political chronicle of the mythical Eugenio who would like to explain that the PP has verbalized its intention to promote the abstention of Junts to make Alberto Núñez Feijóo president of the government of Spain.
And it is that in the attempt to give meaning to the investiture of the Galician proposed by Felipe VI to place it beyond the popular interests themselves (reinforce the leader before his own parish and before a possible electoral repetition), the conservatives have written the best joke of the political season. There will be no screenwriter, no matter how good the psychotropic drugs he consumes are, who can overcome him.
The imminent failed inauguration of Feijóo requires a lot of dramatization so that he can defend himself with solid arguments, regardless of the virtue of starting the tick-tock of a new election so as not to perpetuate a state of institutional provisionality that always generates more anxiety than it should and recover as soon as possible the maximum performance of the legislative and executive powers. So the popular propaganda machine has been working overtime for days to create the illusion of expectations of success that simply do not exist, except for a remake of the tamayazo from exactly two decades ago in the Madrid assembly.
Feijóo is tireless and is capable of anything. We are four deputies away from an absolute majority! So says the popular gear. Only that in that much-vaunted backpack with 172 deputies are the thirty-three from Vox that make impossible the feasibility of any other arrangement other than those already reached with the Canary Islands Coalition, UPN and the extreme right itself.
The PNV that is in the same joke as Junts, although theirs is much less so, has already said through the mouth of its parliamentary spokesman, Aitor Esteban, that Chinese oranges, that they will not be in any equation in which they also appear those of Santiago Abascal. And in Junts, Carles Puigdemont’s laughter has been heard throughout Belgium. From Bruges to Liège and from Charleroi to Anvers.
Beyond the joke, which is in the short and medium term, what is interesting is to observe if the change of needles that the popular ones are putting into practice curdles as a long-term strategy. The dialectic of naturalization of Junts as a political interlocutor practiced by Estaban González Pons, vice-secretary for institutional affairs, or by the general coordinator Elías Bendodo, was born with an impossible objective in the present tense, but it may mark the full awareness on the part of the popular that they cannot live isolated in a corner waiting for an absolute majority that fell from heaven or that the sum with Vox will reach one day to govern.
The insistence of Feijóo and his commanders on the will to speak and dialogue with everyone, with the exception of Bildu, seems to obey the will of the Galician to draw a future for his own party with its own course, regardless of the iron marking to which Vox will continue to submit to him in the moral and territorial axes. That in Junts there are cadres with a predisposition to negotiate with the PP if circumstances make it possible one day is a fact. That among the Junteros voters is the nationalist conservative who feels much more comfortable with the social and economic agenda of the popular than with that of the PSOE-Sumar binomial is also known. But the territorial gaze of the PP and Junts, and above all the interpretation and the events of the recent past, make any hint of collaboration impossible.
Even so, let’s stay with the “talk to everyone”. The same things that the popular said until yesterday about the independentistas, were also verbalized in their day by the socialists. And to the contrary, the same things that are said of the PP from the sovereignism, were also heard directed at the socialists. For something one starts. And that 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 Pons and Bendodo insisted on yesterday, with different intensity and conviction. It’s useless today. But it may be useful in the future. Until then, let’s laugh. Nothing like a well-told joke to forget about the heat for a minute.
