Together and Podemos needed to bite the Spanish Government. The sooner the better. Show him that negotiating with them is a risky sport. “No blackmail, no carrots”, Carles Puigdemont had written on social networks. But what was expected to be the first major junta attack on the PSOE ended up being a daring performance. A lollipop that leaves a mark, yes, because it breaks some capillaries. Miriam Nogueras superbly choreographed the drama that the day required. Continuously collaring Pedro Sánchez to end up sparing his life at the last minute with the seven Junts deputies erasing themselves from the map and not participating in the vote. Yes but no, no but yes. Regarding the booty that the board members say they have taken from the negotiation brought to the limit, it will be necessary to wait to determine exactly how much there is precious stones and how much jewelry.
Who did make blood was Podemos. If it was already complicated for Pedro Sánchez to assemble the Podemites when they sat in the Executive, unbridled as they are now it is much more complicated. The purples, expelled from the Council of Ministers by the PSOE-Sumar duo, returned yesterday for the first time. We must attribute to them the first serious defeat of the Government, since they overturned one of the three decrees that had to be validated. And insisting, in case anyone missed it, that it was the one that corresponded to Yolanda Díaz. It is she who they wanted to point out as a rights cutter for a small thing about the unemployment benefit. Neither forget nor forgive the left of the left.
Sánchez and his main sherpa, Félix Bolaños, made a mistake right from the start. To think that Junts and Podemos can be forced to give in with elementary school textbook arguments – they will not dare to vote no with the PP and Vox, not validating the decrees will harm the most disadvantaged – means that the socialists still need a time to get to know more and better those who decided to take themselves to the round bed of the investiture.
Although the coalition government of the PSOE and Sumar has succeeded in validating two of the three royal decrees, juntaires and Podemites have painted with a brush the fabric of the legislature. The former, threatening to the end, the latter, carrying out their threat: the Government is weak. And any attempt to simulate strength will deserve a timely reminder. The word that will best define the current legislature will be unpredictability. This has been proven with the surreal day in the Senate – Congress is in session -, including the failure of the electronic voting system.
It is a lesson that socialists will have to learn. After the 23-J elections, Sánchez faced the children’s game in the adult version of scare or death. He chose, who wouldn’t?, to continue breathing and willingly signed the mortgage of shocks. Well, the scares are here. “Governing like this is very difficult”, smiled Yolanda Díaz. Did he really imagine it any other way, with the current configuration of Congress?
The Executive is touched. The opposition scores a victory, even if only one of the three decrees has been volatilized. The mantra of popular people and voxers about the ineffectiveness of an Executive with such unstable foundations at the mercy of the continuous and growing demands of investment partners is reinforced.
Although, of what has been experienced these days, the most understandable thing has been to hear the PSOE ask the PP to rescue him to take his chestnuts out of the fire. Not in his wildest dreams did Alberto Núñez Feijóo imagine being able to fulfill so soon the prophecy he gave to Sánchez in the investiture debate: his partners will betray him. When that happens don’t come looking for me.
And the most peregrine, which there have also been, that Junts wanted to demand as a condition of negotiation that the Spanish Government accept sanctions on the companies that left Catalonia in 2017 if they do not now return voluntarily. In this party there are solvent people who not only know the laws, but also know how the basic principles of economic and business activity work. In other words, this cruelty was perfectly avoidable.
