There is considerable unanimity in general in recognizing that one of the great mistakes of the PP in recent years has been underestimating Pedro Sánchez, which has meant that he is in the opposition today. What is striking is the persistence in the error of the popular ones. Today Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s team works with the hypothesis that the current Government will last four days, convinced that its fragile parliamentary majority will blow up when it is least expected. And for this reason, the PP continuously doubts the legitimacy of Sánchez’s access to power – “his investiture was born of a fraud,” the popular president has said –, just as was done when he won the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
For this reason, Núñez Feijóo has left behind the spirit with which he arrived from Santiago and has reorganized the party to try to create a Cainite opposition – proof is the recovery of the marginalized Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo – and seeks continuous mobilization in the streets. with demonstrations like the one that will be held today in Pamplona. It seems that there is no tomorrow to bring down the Government.
Meanwhile, Sánchez goes about his business and governs. And it is no longer a question of EU authorities, such as Charles Michel or Ursula von der Leyen, congratulating him on the European presidency, but rather of his ministers reaching agreements with the PP barons that legitimize the action of the government of he. While Feijóo finds a reason every day to censure Sánchez, the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, agrees with the president of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, the solution to the Doñana park, or the much maligned minister Óscar Puente resolves with the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, the expansion of the port of Valencia. They are two important agreements, and those to come.
In this context, Sánchez, who is very loose in this new legislature, once again publicly challenged Núñez Feijóo to set a date to meet the two at the Moncloa. It is clear that whoever rules and disposes of the State budget has the upper hand. He will be liked more or less, but the sooner the PP assumes that it is in the opposition, the sooner it will be able to build its alternative in a credible way.
