Nicolás Machiavelli wrote that “the prince must be prudent like the fox and strong like the lion.” If he lived in our time, the Florentine master would feel very unhappy to see how the majority of today’s politicians abuse aggressiveness and lack any caution in their public interventions. Yesterday’s long session in Congress showed a low level of discourse, lacking originality, between the Government and the opposition. The journalists could have already written down some of the phrases that were said before they were uttered. Everything more than predictable.
Pedro Sánchez did not miss the opportunity yesterday to say that the PP was “a destructive opposition”, but in his speech at midday he elevated his speech and preferred to focus on the good results of economic policy and the serious problems that affect geopolitics. international. This time he did not get into the criticism that Alberto Núñez Feijóo launched at him about having dynamited the PSOE or his allusions to “the business of his socialist friends in Venezuela” – without citing anything else – or the transfers to Morocco. There was no more and you with distribution of more mud.
Sánchez exercises power. He has many resources and cannot fall into the temptation of turning the control sessions in Congress into a media spectacle or having a Minister of Transportation appear in the media more for his rudeness on social networks than for his management. . Whoever is in charge can do other things, such as making it easier for public television to sign a production company in prime time to compensate for the campaigns against it from private media. RTVE will pay 28 million to the production company where David Broncano works, but it will be difficult to recover this investment because it does not have the leverage of advertising. The only meaning of the bet is to offer an alternative view to the offer that Antena 3 and Telecinco offer at that time and which is not, let’s put it mildly, kind to the Government.
These machinations were called Machiavellian, in reference to the Florentine politician, for some reason. We repeat the quote: the prince must be prudent like the fox and strong like the lion.
