Intense days in El Patio Digital. It is not being a beach bar summer, far from it, in the old Twitter, today Equis. On the contrary, it is being a hot July for reasons other than environmental ones. The most important, for what was at stake, were the general elections on Sunday. Some elections that served to puncture the demoscopic bubble that had been installed in the country. It was artificial and, probably, with a view to upcoming appointments with the polls, the voter will think twice if he trusts this or that poll without disclosing the microdata that support it. Some company will also meditate, obviously, its outlay.
On social networks it is true that, until Sunday, the conviction was also installed – practically unanimous – that Feijóo’s PP would regain power. The question was to clear up whether with Abascal as vice president or without him. Here’s the question. Only some kind of miracle would prevent it. And it happened.
The last days on Twitter were especially polarized. Mud flooded the interchange. Those who mentioned the murderer of Miguel Ángel Blanco were unleashed; no one stopped them. Correos was put on target. The Falcón was also a recurring theme. Until Sunday at midnight, when that bubble was also punctured.
On Monday, after voting, social networks showed another tone. It could be said that there were four winners, according to the Twitter criteria. First of all, the slogan “Perro Sanxe”, who was going to say it, converted into a campaign leitmotif by the PSOE. Secondly, Tezanos; who laughs last laughs best, he came to proclaim. In third place, Puigdemont, who has the master key to governability and who is preparing to be the protagonist of the month of August. Noise is coming; in fact, there already is. And, as an unexpected winner, the Grand Prix of the summer, with Ramón García but without a heifer, which has returned to the small screen with a solid audience. The town was looking forward to seeing an iconic contest on national television again. It’s not the 2000s, no. Spain is a more mature country today, but it wants to have fun.
What happened until Sunday should make society reflect. It was a little edifying campaign, but it leaves a lesson. No matter how many hours of news or waves are broadcast, and how many rivers of ink are written, no matter how many tweets are read and Instagram and TikTok videos are consumed, the maxim of “wait a minute, we have to vote” should focus the discussion on the future. For health.