President Sánchez’s unpublished letter to Spanish citizens shows a serious institutional crisis. I do not remember a case in liberal democracies in which a prime minister suspends the agenda for four days to reflect on whether it is worth continuing in power. On the fifth day, he will communicate if he continues in office, if he proposes a motion of confidence, if he resigns, or announces some tactical move to the limit of resistance. Sánchez has surprised us with unexpected decisions that have worked well for him so far.
He who does not know everything can know nothing. Sánchez’s letter has ignited the imagination, the fables, the conspiracies in millions of Spaniards who, in the absence of a convincing explanation, develop theories without knowing the main cause that explains everything.
In the absence of data that would allow one to get a certain idea of ??the complex moment we are going through, I want to accept the familiar side that evokes the president suspending, in fact, his functions at the head of the Government. Everyone is the master of their feelings and their intimacies.
But the suspense of this long personal reflection goes beyond the human factor and has political consequences of the first order. Several times he alludes to the right and the extreme right as the causes of the harassment he claims to have been subjected to. He also refers to judges and journalists who cross his path. The democratic system entails constant opposition and a public opinion that is also nourished by hostile media. Sánchez’s mistake in being invested was not due to having achieved such heterogeneous ideological and territorial support, but to having erected a wall, as he said, among the Spanish, approximately half of whom did not vote for him .
If an insignificant union like Manos Limpias, of the extreme right, admits that the news on which it has based its complaint against Begoña Gómez, the wife of Pedro Sánchez, could be false, I do not know what the sudden reaction is. The most surprising thing is how a judge has accepted the complaint.
While waiting to learn more about this institutional crisis, the Catalan campaign will focus on the corner of Moncloa’s thinking while the country indulges in the fantasy of political gossip. All in all very unserious and shows the inability to listen and understand each other among those who disagree.
