There is already a legitimate, democratic and constitutional government. Pedro Sánchez has been invested by a more than sufficient majority. The tone of the debate was one of confrontation between two blocs that proved irreconcilable. The climate of confrontation will continue throughout the legislature, which is presented in an atmosphere of rejection of the other on all fronts.
Spain will not break up and will continue to be a parliamentary democracy. But it will be socially and politically fractured. Sánchez has worked for the investiture to the point of changing his mind to get the seven votes that Carles Puigdemont has administered since Waterloo, going from being a persecuted by justice to becoming the arbiter of Spanish governance. Not even the best screenwriter in Hollywood could have written such a fascinating sequence of events.
The Popular Party was the most voted, but its implicit and explicit alliance with Vox isolated it from the other political forces to achieve a majority. Núñez Feijóo won, but Sánchez will govern for four more years. Arithmetic is not about ideas.
A complex stage begins in which, if Sánchez intends to maintain governability, he will need to fulfill the agreements signed with pro-independence and nationalist partners. This is how Gabriel Rufián for Esquerra, Míriam Nogueras for Junts and Aitor Esteban for PNB remembered him. A legislature is presented in which the territorial debate will prevail over the social one because the political story will be in the hands of the Catalan independence supporters who have facilitated his investiture and will be decisive in all the votes in Congress.
Sánchez has built a wall against the right, but he has to cross unsafe bridges with his partners. He has opted for dialogue in Catalonia and will have an increase in tension in Spain. Laura Borràs maintains that the problem now lies with the Spanish and Puigdemont will demand that the amnesty and the agreements with the PSOE are fulfilled to the letter. Four foreign supervisors, unknown at the moment, will review compliance with the agreements every month in Geneva. This is new.
Walls to stop the right in Spain and bridges to understand with partners who will raise the bar of the auction to continue supporting it. Pablo Iglesias has already blown up a retreating pontoon. Since Sánchez has been president, no one has discovered his Achilles’ heel. Must be invulnerable?
