The pressure gauge needles continue to indicate high pressure for the majority of the government. In submarine movies, when the pressure gets too high, the lights flicker and screws start to jump out of the pipes, with uncontrolled jets of steam. The German film Das Boot (The Submarine) is the masterpiece of the genre.
Last week the needles came to mark 90 in a sphere of 100. Now we are at 70. The agreement on pensions, which today will be ratified by the unions, has lowered the pressure, since it bears a European seal.
Agreement in the Government between PSOE and Unidas Podemos, with a blue seal stamped this week by the Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni, a man from the Italian center left. The proposal does not generate rejections in Brussels, although there may be doubts about its viability in the medium term. In the current situation, after the electoral turn in Italy, the European technostructure is not hostile to the Spanish political formula, nor is Washington, after the agreement with Morocco. The Government is about to receive a visa from Brussels to arrive in December. A visa that will have to be stamped again later.
A cautious man, trained at the Romay Beccaría school, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has remained low profile for three days, auscultating. The contrary opinion of the CEOE employers was not enough for him. The FAES foundation lowered its thumb on Monday and Feijóo attacked the pension agreement after a few hours without promising to repeal it if he won the elections. There are millions of votes at stake. We will see the PP walking with lead feet in this matter.
Needles at 70. Bildu and ERC yesterday blocked the partial repeal of the Citizen Security law, the famous gag law approved by the Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy when the latest economic crisis reached its zenith and the powers of the police on the street were reinforced . The repeal of that law was one of Sánchez’s promises to the outraged 15-M. The police unions, with a strong role for Vox, took to the streets a year ago, placing themselves in the vanguard of the Broad Front against the Government. They yelled a lot.
Judges, police unions and civil guards, private television, commentators and commentators, old and new newspapers, digital guerrillas, Ferrovial that is leaving, Jorge Juan street in Madrid, Miguel Bosé saying that there is less freedom now than in Franco’s times, and magistrate Manuel Aragón Reyes promoting the theory of the “constitutional dictatorship”: a presidential Sánchez who would be running over the King. This is the really existing Broad Front.
Bildu and ERC have blocked the partial repeal of the gag law because they wanted more. We are three months away from the municipal elections and ERC is doing badly in Barcelona. And Bildu must face the split that has taken the name of Socialist Youth Coordinator. The gag law is still in force and the PSOE has problems of elasticity in two directions: there is a centrist electorate that continues to doubt and the generation politicized by the 15-M can break up and demobilize if the other Broad Front, that of Sumar, Podemos, Comunes and relatives, it does not materialize, which is on the way to happen.
On Tuesday, the motion of censure of Ramón Tamames, Not Entirely Identified Political Object.
