Just 24 hours ago, Miriam Nogueras He unleashed all his rhetorical artillery against him Pedro Sanchez In Congress. He called him a “cynic and hypocrite” and blamed him for an endless list of non-compliance.
Nogueras said Junts had “irretrievably” separated from the government.
party Carles PuigdemontAs announced a week ago, he will submit amendments to all twenty-five laws, object to twenty-one other laws, and obstruct the state’s general budget.
Only 24 hours later, with their insults still echoing from the ceiling of the hall like the bullets of the coup plotters at 23-F, Güntz saved the government from parliamentary defeat by a single vote. Tactical abstention from the vote on the extension of nuclear power plants It allowed Pedro Sanchez to avoid a strike that would have put him over the edge.
This difference was made by the seven pro-independence representatives. Gantz, of course, did not vote for it (that would have been very obvious). But he abstained, giving Sanchez what he needed.
The Prime Minister received the message loud and clear: “We will stage theater and we will even insult you, but we will allow you to reach 2027 without forcing you to call early general elections.”
This discrepancy is not a coincidence. It is typical of the Duff Party, which long ago discovered that the farce of confrontation is more electorally profitable than cohesion.
It is also more important than respecting your constituents.
The key is that Junts is in free fall against Aliança Catalana, who is growing while they are weakening.
So the Junts need to scream and threaten to break up. But you also don’t need any of that to actually happen. Because Sanchez depends on them as much as they depend on him.
What has been proven today beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the UNETS party is not a Spanish party, but rather the most Spanish party in Congress. Because there is nothing more Spanish than that extreme courage that later dissolves in the ether of tactical abstention.
What about Junts, in short, It’s not passive aggressive, it’s passive aggressive.
The logic is simple. Holding a general election now would mean holding regional elections in Catalonia soon after. In this scenario of fragmentation, with Aliansa rising so rapidly, the PSC controlling the general state and the ERC competing for space of independence, the Junts would be destroyed.
In Madrid, a Popular Party government with Vox would be much worse for the independence movement than a Sanchez government controlled remotely by Gontz and the European Reform Party.
Therefore, even if this leads to secession, Gantz will continue to save Sanchez’s votes by voting, but always in the most hypocritical way: abstaining instead of supporting, silence instead of applauding.
What really fuels this two-sided strategy is that Junts have already lost what matters to them. The pardon arrived, but the judge Larina He refuses to apply it to Puigdemont for embezzlement.
The transfer of immigration powers was blocked by an impossible coalition including the People’s Party, Vox and Podemos.
The failures of the Socialist Workers Party are real, documented and unacceptable.
What’s left is crumbs. The official status of Catalans in Europe and approval of laws that favor very specific interests. Catalan businessmen, of course, are happy to maintain the nuclear plants that power their businesses. Because more than half of the energy needed by the Catalan economy comes from these plants and green energy is not an option for them.
Will Gantz’s party, which claims to protect Catalonia, vote against the interests of its main business supporters? Abstaining from voting was the best solution for them.
The fact is that the Junts have become a party of very specific interests. Pardoning Puigdemont and preserving legislative power Which allows them to sell their support to the highest bidder.
Saving the silent Sanchez allows them to obtain his services without appearing as accomplices.
Sanchez knows it. That is why he maintains the “outstretched hand” rhetoric and secretly admits to his ministers that “practically nothing has changed.” Junts will, until 2027, remain a lifeline to the moribund Legislature. Not because he believes in government policies, if he believes in anything. But because the alternative (early elections and government) Figo) is worse for them.
This is the true ending of the movie. It is a minority government that survives because its main ally, even if it pretends otherwise, needs it to survive. A legislature that will expire not because of pressure from political forces like Juntes, but because its expiration date has arrived, while the theater of independence and Sánchez’s silence make it seem as if nothing is happening, when in fact the only thing that is happening is the passage of time.
Chiriguta continues. Junts (and Sánchez) continue to provoke the Spanish.
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