Hesiod, famous for having transcribed some of the best-known myths of Ancient Greece, placed chaos as the original deity. This is how the story that the PSC is building also works. After the (independence) chaos, President Salvador Illa will arrive to bring peace and common sense. But the theoretical beginning of this story has not yet been explored and, on the other hand, some preamble is being drafted, such as the mayoral election in Barcelona, ​​which will greatly condition its end.
As the electoral results of 28-M established, it has become clear, in the capital, that if Illa wants to be president, Jaume Collboni now cannot be mayor. Not with an impossible sum with commons and ERC (which has already said that it is not for it). Not with an Ada Colau of whom Collboni, in the campaign (two days ago), pointed out (correctly) a thousand and one evils, who threw him out of the government a few years ago and whom he planted weeks ago.
But, above all, it should not be possible for that sum to access the municipal government thanks to some last-minute surprise votes (not negotiated or officially expected) from the PP or Vox. This last hypothesis tells us that it is unthinkable. But we have seen so many strange things come true in our politics in recent years, that it is clear that the most sensible and serious thing would be, without a doubt, that once the socialists assume that they do not have the context to join common and republicans, they refrain from presenting a candidacy for the investiture.
Illa, before the mirror, will have to match what she says with what she does. This is how a story about the good government that should come after the next elections to the Parliament is built with credible options. Without fanfare and looking for broad country consensus that, for example, push forward necessary infrastructure for all. Xavier Trias has already reached out to Republicans and Socialists to promote government action in Barcelona. ERC, for the moment, seems to have understood the message of the polls better than the PSC. And in politics you have to know how to lose, but also win. The socialists have done very well in the country as a whole, but not enough in the cap i casal.
Seriousness and good food. That’s how they say it’s the Illa PSC. “Fets, not paraules”, would claim José Montilla. Now, Pedro Sánchez has shown that he has understood the message of the polls and has anticipated the general elections, after the socialist disaster in the whole of the State. We will see if that gesture receives the prize it expects. If not, a PSC without the PSOE in Moncloa always has the most difficult things. On the way to the Catalans, he will not have all the credit that he can accumulate in his backpack. Illa has these duties in Barcelona. And in Madrid, with the valuable direct link that he has with the leader of the PSOE, perhaps he could warn him that he would be very wrong if he believed that we are in 1993 or 2008. This is no longer about “Felipe or Aznar, you decide” or about “If you don’t go, they come back.” The anti-PP (and Vox) vote will not necessarily fall like ripe fruit.
