Diplomatic crisis with Israel and clash with Italy in the same day. New clash with the General Council of the Judiciary regarding the State Attorney General. Supreme Court ruling invalidating the appointment of former socialist minister Magdalena Valerio as president of the Council of State. Imminent meeting in Geneva of delegations from the PSOE and Junts with an international verifier whose identity both parties have agreed not to reveal. Demonstration, on Sunday, in defense of the Constitution called by the Popular Party in front of the Debod temple in Madrid, in the Cuartel de la Montaña park, five hundred meters from the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz street, where the nightly concentrations of the extreme right have already entered a terminal phase.
Thus concludes the so-called national November. Historians must study in depth the entire month of November 2023 in Spain. There are the keys and keys to the future of this country. Someone will resist. Someone will be forced to change lines. Someone can end up on the margins. Someone must have read the times correctly. Someone must have made the wrong bet. We still don’t know who. As the transitive minister Pío Cabanillas Gallas said, “we are going to win, but we don’t know who.”
Israel calls its ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, a diplomat with a cordial disposition and deep democratic convictions, for consultations, as a sign of protest against statements by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday morning on TVE1, casting doubt that the Israeli offensive on Gaza respects human rights. It is an opinion shared by millions of Spaniards, probably the majority. Last weekend, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen accused Sánchez, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of “collaborating with terrorism” for their criticism of the policy of the Netanyahu Government in Gaza.
Israel leaves and Algeria returns. Three weeks ago, Algiers sent a new ambassador to Spain and closed the diplomatic crisis that began a year and a half ago over the question of Western Sahara. The Spanish position on Gaza has interested the Algerians as much as it has upset the Government of Israel, which silently maintains its good connection with Morocco. This is an important fact. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, appears next Tuesday in Congress. It will be interesting to hear the intervention of Junts per Catalunya. If they want to get closer without talking about the amnesty, Junts and the Popular Party can find a link in Israel.
Encounter with Italy. In the same interview on TVE1, Sánchez recalled yesterday that Italy is governed by the extreme right. Shortly afterwards the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs responded through the doubts that the rule of law is respected. At the moment, no one has called any ambassador. Tajani is one of the supporters of the EPP’s operation to bring closer to sectors of the extreme right that swear allegiance to NATO. There is the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who actively intervened in the last Spanish electoral campaign supporting the entry of Vox into a future government. The day after Sánchez’s inauguration, Meloni received Santiago Abascal in Rome.
Many things worthy of study have happened in November. For example, the European election campaign has begun, with upcoming flying goals in Galicia and the Basque Country.