More fuel to the fire!, was heard at the polls from one border to the other. More wood to the fire!, repeated the stones of Plaça Sant Jaume. More wood for the fire!, was the cry that filled the territory between Moncloa and Waterloo. And we had to put another date on the calendar, May 12, with which there will be three electoral dates in three months and the certainty that a long legislature – very long for Feijóo – that Pedro Sánchez announced turned into uncertainty The next day. To falter, alliances falter. To move, they move until the pacts. To fall, even the budgets fall. “It was difficult to govern,” Yolanda Díaz once said. The only place where rulers can be taken is in the proverbial survival of the president, if he is not swept away by the waves of corruption.
No one knows how the Basque Country will vote, much less how Catalonia will vote, nor what will happen in the European elections in June, when Tezanos has just changed the prophecy and predicts the conservative turn against which Sánchez (always Sánchez, in all Sánchez) is going warn European socialists and was immediately confirmed in Portugal. But this unknown is consubstantial with democracy. The bad thing would be that there were no elections. Why, then, the restlessness felt in society? Because it is feared that the ongoing electoral tension for so many months will bring the confrontation between parties to delicate, even dangerous, levels for coexistence. And we are not far away.
I say that we are not very far after seeing how the political debate has degenerated and, with this debate, the legal debate in front of issues as momentous for the nation as Amnesty, compliance with the laws, or the future of the State when the unilateral declaration of independence ceases to be a crime. Neither in the meetings nor in the institutions nor in the media are these issues discussed with the least respect or with the least respect for the opinions of others. Everything has become a fight full of hate. All the political action that transpires is the reporting of crimes, sometimes without evidence or based on information of questionable solvency. It’s very rare to hear solutions to people’s problems, but it’s common to hear insults repeated with an aggravating factor: parliamentary groups and attendees at party meetings cheering the provocative and long-tongued leader, which encourages him to insult more and more every day higher and stronger, because that is the measure of his leadership and his success.
And I’m sorry to say it, but there is no hope for change. Sánchez made a government distinguished by its aggressiveness against the right. It seems that they do not come to govern, but to provoke. Feijóo surrounded himself with people who are distinguished by a language that, used outside the institutions, would be taken to court. And with these ingredients, electoral campaigns become riots and reasoned political debate – and I insist, with this one, the legal one – has disappeared. And the fact is that the country is doing well, creating jobs and fostering wealth. But that’s what society does. The leaders sully it with their obscene displays of rancor.
CUTOUTS
Change Perhaps we do not have enough perspective of the generational change that will take place in Spain. Only two predictions for the next five years: half of the current civil servants will retire and two thirds of the Supreme Court judges will be replaced.
Degradation When a member of the Spanish Government assures that there will not be a referendum in Catalonia, almost everyone and many published opinions understand that there will be one. Official confidence has never fallen so low. Another sign of the degeneration of politics in this country.
Lesson The British royal family was, is, very much loved. For much of the world, a model of transparency. The simple modification of a photo calls it into question. How fragile is credibility! And what a lesson from the English press, which knows how to go from scandal to silence so as not to harm stability!
Koldo If it were true what has been published about the Venezuelan Delcy, its suitcases in Barajas and the suspicions about the millionaire rescue of Air Europa and PlusUltra, we would be faced with immense corruption scandals. All together, one of the greatest in history.
Law There are those who claim that, in front of Fraga’s slogan, Spain has never been different. Today it is, at least in Europe. In no other country is defending the laws a face. Maybe that’s why Pedro Sánchez takes refuge in European legislation and switches from Spanish legislation.
