José Luis López Vázquez’s scene in “Atraco a las tres” is linked to the interview with Sánchez in Catalonia. “Admirer, slave, friend, servant.” “I just came to ask you a question,” the guest answers with the meekness of a slimy guest … A protagonist who insists on subordination: “You ask what you want.” Did you breach your agreement with Junts? He added, “I assume a lack of commitment, and we do not underestimate the importance of the political crisis that has erupted.” When will the fugitive from Waterloo return? “The full normalization of Catalonia cannot happen until Carles Puigdemont cannot return and cannot fully exercise his political rights.” Will you meet him? “That picture will happen.” If there were corruption issues surrounding Figo, would you have asked for his resignation? “I have already fulfilled my responsibilities.” Finally, since we’re here, what do you think of Abalos? “From a personal point of view, it was unknown to me.” The scene ends with the interviewee repeating his initial message of degrading subordination: Remember to convey to Junts that you have here an admirer, a slave, a friend, a servant.
Such a subordination of a head of government to another party to stay in power at any cost is unprecedented, although in reality there is nothing unprecedented in Sanchismo: the entire legislature without a budget, two secretaries of the organization who were in prison, the convicted public prosecutor, two members of his immediate family before justice, the Constitutional Court under his leadership…but so far he has managed to break all the rules while maintaining a sense of power. At times, its insurmountability carried traces of arrogance. However, this time he shamelessly groped in front of the only party to which he bowed his head, the party furthest from socialist postulates among those who had representation in Congress. Sanchez has managed to put Montuno’s trick on us about ‘obstructing progress’. He succeeded in drowning out the PNV and Junts, a group with xenophobic ideas, in the progressive clamor, and then proceeded to build a wall against the far right, as if the far right were off his team. But this inappropriate surrender, which García Page described as kneeling, is a symptom of weakness, a symptom of despair the likes of which we have not yet seen. And with desperate people you have to be very careful. The fugitive’s crying is a sign of decline that goes beyond simply washing his hands of Abalos, whom he portrays at best as a madman who randomly chooses his trusted heart. What Sánchez shows by submitting to Gontz’s yoke is that his only plan is the umbrella of power, which he believes will protect him from the judicial storm that threatens him, and that in order to preserve it he is willing to lose his dignity. And if you don’t care about your honor, imagine how important Spain is to you.
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