I’m not explaining anything new if I tell you that they can’t stand each other and they’re both equally lazy to see each other, but the spirit of Christmas (or perhaps the sense of ridicule) finally allowed Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo to meet. Not in the Moncloa, as would be logical, but in neutral terrain, like an impersonal Congress room. They were both wearing a charcoal gray suit, ideal for going to funerals. It has been difficult to bring them together: the PP did not see it clearly. The popular ones are warlike and did not want the meeting to seem like a concession. They fear Sánchez in Genoa and were worried that he insisted so much on the matter. What if it was a trap meeting? The President of the Government had to remember in Brussels that the head of the opposition must work for the general interest. In the end, they sat down to talk, with a ponsetia as a witness.
The truth is that it was unheard of that the president of the PP sought to avoid the meeting. In the previous hours, the socialists were sent off with a video of Feijóo’s insults towards Sánchez in the last three months (caudillista, despot, felon, Adamista, corrupt, immoral, egomaniac) and his collaborators such as Elías Bendodo, Miguel Tellado, Cuca Gamarra or Susana Mozo, who even described him as a “coup plotter.” The popular ones leaked their memorial of grievances with the socialists before the meeting. The last one, having made a Bildu activist mayor of Pamplona.
From the meeting, at least, came the desire for the European Commission to act as a mediator in the negotiations to renew the Council of the Judiciary, whose mandate ended five years ago and has not been renewed because the PP has turned its composition into a counterweight to the Government. We’ll have to wait to see how it turns out, but it seems like good news.
During the duration of a movie or a soccer match, Sánchez and Feijóo had to talk and look each other in the eyes. The PP wants to make a dog-face opposition, but it cannot turn the next four years into the legislature of Doctor No. Another thing is that beyond yesterday’s good words, one or both politicians thought what Churchill said to Lord Lonsdale: “If I valued the honorable gentleman’s opinion, I might be angry.”
