If the end-of-year plan, that troubled legislative package in which everything was mixed up (reforms to the Penal Code, trans law, law on animal rights, the method of electing the magistrates of the Constitutional Court), was to release the debate public of uncomfortable issues with a view to the long electoral cycle of 2023, the Government has shot itself, or two, in the foot.

The objective, very typical of the old PSOE, always cunning with the times of politics, was chimerical. The agenda has not been cleared, because to govern today in Europe is to suffer. March begins and the Government is currently in the Bermuda triangle: inflation refuses to go down, despite having avoided the recession predicted by the prophets of the apocalypse; the application of the law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Equality (only if it is yes) has generated a social scandal and a gap within the Executive, and a case of corruption discovered in the Canary Islands has become a succulent scandal.

Regional corruption (for now). A socialist deputy involved. A general of the Civil Guard. A mediator, who now turns on the fan and says that he has also worked for the Popular Party and the Canary Islands Coalition. Parties with prostitutes and cocaine in Madrid hotels, after visiting the Congress of Deputies. The investigation has only just begun to unfold.

The image of Luis Roldán in his underpants in the 1990s is back in digital format. Echoes of the rudest chapter of the summary of the ERE in Andalusia. The seediness of the “dump truck of whores” promised by a person involved in the espionage case detected in the Community of Madrid by Esperanza Aguirre. Valencian music from ten or fifteen years ago.

Bad business for the PSOE, which promised to have thoroughly cleaned the bilges. Pedro Sánchez, the resistant one, confirms that not everything depends on his security and good management in European politics. The Popular Party is not in a position to give lessons to anyone, but it will tighten the pins. It is your obligation as the first opposition party.

Political combat is always a fight for stage lighting. The most powerful spotlights illuminate former deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes, Tito Berni, in his underwear with a young girl in a Madrid hotel. Let’s imagine the scenario. Far away, in the background, under a more filtered light, is the general of the Civil Guard, Francisco Espinosa Navas, the only one of those involved in the plot who is currently in unconditional prison. The summary narrates that more than 60,000 euros in cash were found in his house along with an accounting notebook. The media light that bathes the general is weaker than that of the parties at the hotel, since the Civil Guard is not a political party.

The Benemérita commands respect, and for that very reason, for the respect that the institutions that ensure public safety deserve, it is opportune to point out that Major General Espinosa Navas, now retired, was second chief of staff of the Civil Guard between 2013 and 2016. That is, high command of the armed institute, head of the Secretariat for International Cooperation of the government of Mariano Rajoy (2016-2017) and director of a European project to reinforce the security of the Sahel countries (2017). .

The PSOE has a problem, yes. And the State has another: he is in prison, accused of corruption, one of the Spanish military commanders with the best knowledge of the Sahel, a priority area of ??the world for the security of Southern Europe.