Hesiod, famous for having transcribed some of the best-known myths of ancient Greece, placed chaos as the original deity. This is also how the narrative that the PSC is building works. After the (independence) chaos, President Salvador Illa will arrive, to bring sanity and peace. But the theoretical beginning of this history has not yet been explored and, on the other hand, some preamble is being drafted, such as the election of a mayor in Barcelona, ​​which will greatly influence the end.

As the electoral results of 28-M determined, it has become clear, in the capital, that if Illa wants to be president, Jaume Collboni cannot now be mayor. Not with an impossible sum with commons and ERC (which he has already said is not the case). Not with an AdaColau of whom Collboni, in the campaign (two days ago), has pointed out (rightly) a thousand and one evils, who a few years ago kicked him out of the government and whom he planted weeks ago.

But, above all, it should not be possible for this sum to reach the municipal government thanks to some last-minute surprise votes (not negotiated or officially expected) by PP or Vox. This last hypothesis we are told is unthinkable. But we have seen so many strange things come true in our politics in recent years, that it is clear that the most sensible and serious thing would be, without a doubt, that once the socialists assume that they do not have the context to join with commoners and republicans, s ‘abstain from submitting a candidacy for the investiture.

Illa, in front of the mirror, will have to match what he says with what he does. This is how a narrative about the good government that must come after the next parliamentary elections is built with options for credibility. Without stridency and looking for broad country consensus that, for example, will advance infrastructures that are needed by everyone. Xavier Trias has already reached out to republicans and socialists to promote government action in Barcelona. ERC, for now, seems to have understood the message of the polls better than the PSC. And in politics you have to know how to lose, but also how to win. The socialists have done very well in the country as a whole, but not enough in Cap i Casal.

Seriousness and good food. This is what they say is the PSC of Illa. “Deeds, not words”, José Montilla would claim. Now Pedro Sánchez has shown that he has understood the message of the polls and has anticipated the general elections, after the socialist slump in the State as a whole. We’ll see if this gesture receives the prize it expects. If not, a PSC without the PSOE in Moncloa always has the most difficult things. On the path of the Catalan women, he will not have all the credit he can accumulate in his backpack.

Illa has these duties in Barcelona. And in Madrid, with the valuable direct link he has with the leader of the PSOE, perhaps he will warn him that he would be very wrong if he thought we were in 1993 or 2008. This is no longer about “Felipe or Aznar, you decide” or of “If you don’t go, they come back”. The vote against PP (and Vox) will not necessarily fall like ripe fruit to the PSOE.