The Galician elections were won by Alberto Núñez Feijóo (Alfonso Rueda has only shown his face), who knew that something more was at stake for the PP to govern Galicia. He has not missed a rally since in his campaign debut he said a phrase that has floated in the air: “We do not want Puigdemont to govern.” It is curious that he lied to someone who is not Galician, nor was he running for election, nor has he even set foot in Galicia. Feijóo has presented the elections as a Spanish competition, using the amnesty as a lever, and it has turned out well. In a way, the PSOE has also tried it, which has had Pedro Sánchez very active, but without success. The final result has been that Feijóo saves his head and Sánchez stumbles out of Galicia.
What about Puigdemont is curious: if the Amnesty law had been approved a month ago, the noise would have decreased, the PP would limit itself to making trouble in the Senate and the courts would wait at the end of the road, knowing that their margin to stop the measure of grace is limited. But with Puigdemont’s decision to vote against the Amnesty law together with the PP and Vox, in what is one of the most inexplicable moments of our democracy, he has not only put the PSOE against the wall, but also ERC and, What is worse, to the institutions.
It is pathetic to see the PSOE request a new extension to continue negotiating the law of criminal oblivion with JxCat, when they had validated it at the time. Last week there was a meeting in Barcelona in which Minister Félix Bolaños did not make any progress.
Yesterday, in the pages of this newspaper, the Treva i Pau collective, which brings together personalities who have held (or hold) positions of responsibility in Catalan life, proposed to the Government to say enough after the JxCat vote on January 30, because “it was not a joke, but an insult to the entire country.” In his opinion, that day “seventy disloyal cynics” went back on what was agreed and mocked the President of the Government. Aragonès has been more cautious, warning that enough of the pirouettes, that the law is solid and that every day without amnesty is one more day of ordeal. The amnesty is on the horizon, no matter how irresponsible it may seem.