1. European democracies, with their differential principles, live most comfortably in times of simple bilateral partnership: right and left wing led by a major party, with a few secondary groups around it that prohibit such accommodation. A convenient model of industrial capitalism that responded to the old bourgeois/proletariat scheme. However, the move towards financial capitalism, technological acceleration and changes in the communication system have introduced complex factors that have direct implications for political representation. We see it everywhere. Meanwhile, in France: since Nicolas Sarkozy assumed the presidency, the Fifth Republic has entered a phase of political disintegration that even the first man of the class, Emmanuel Macron, has been able to reverse. Now is the time to act as a moderate, with governments of precarious stability and with the far right – which benefits from insanity everywhere – to attack power.
In the Spanish case, the multinational structure further complicates the practice of sports. Political representation in Catalonia and the Basque Country, when moving to Spanish institutions, introduces complicating factors that clearly define a simple right-to-right alternation. It is a reality in which there is now, as in all of Europe, the extreme right which is carving out the space to the right – the Popular Party, for example – at an accelerating pace. So building a stable majority, as Pedro Sánchez well knows, is not achieved through delay and commitment and often leads to conflicts of despair.
2. In this scenario, the PP, distressed by the long and unexpected crossing of the desert in the wake of its defeat by Sánchez, now struggles to impose a rotation. With messages marked by their reliance on Vox, making any approach with Together or PNV difficult, and incompatible with Santiago Abascal and his family. Sánchez is certainly holding on to something: that the current law to abolish socialism does not lead him to take a step to forge its reduction, and that, ironically, even the presence of the Vox party has now become a lifesaver for the president, precisely at the moment when Alberto Núñez Viejo, trapped in his impotence, finds a humiliating public confrontation in which the Catalan president calls for the arrest of Gontz.
The surprise that followed this ruling party move came from President Sanchez himself when he asked for Juntes’ cooperation, in an exercise of self-criticism in a new style that prompted him to acknowledge the “failures and delays” in the acquired commitments that the ruling Catalan Nationalist Party had denounced. Sánchez is satisfied enough with his acquaintances to make gestures like this, convinced that they favor him because they annoy the right. He does not surrender, because he knows his opponent’s weaknesses and believes that he has cards to play with. Naturally, the PP makes the task easier when it raises the cry to the sky demanding that Sánchez be humiliated by handing himself over to Juntes just a week after Figo begged Puigdemont to support the censure motion. Another example of the ridiculous callejón trapped in PP. If they ally themselves with the Gents, it is a service to the country; If what President Sanchez is doing represents national outrage.
Sánchez’s commitment is to complete the legislature, perhaps because he believes that the erosion of the right, in the struggle between the PP and Vox for dominance, could give new prospects to the PSOE in 2027. He knows that Junz’s party, a diminishing party, has lost much of its support since its greatest moments. practicalThe one linked to Puigdemont, who is betting on the return of the exiled president at the beginning of next year, cannot play by jumping to the other side. The limit of what is possible is Mariam Nogueras’s extreme dryness, too much noise, too few effects, and the formal aggression that has no fate other than complacency. How do you give to PP and Vox so you can both vote with them at no cost to anyone? There is something threatening, announcing a break with the Socialist Workers’ Party, and another vote with the extreme right. They are planted together, but there is a long distance on the other side, which Sanchez intends to speculate.
3. The strange thing about this incident is that Pedro Sanchez took this step blatantly, and without any euphemisms: I am guilty of non-compliance. I promise to fix that. And here’s the disturbing news of the moment: Fox’s normalization. It wasn’t taboo. And even Junts has bought the derecha challenge. Which may be a sign of the worst: that in Spain, as in Europe’s media, the far right, and neo-fascism, there is a move away from marginalization. Sometimes we want to believe that the defense of democracy is a generalized principle, and it turns out that some countries in the European Union just go beyond the page. Although I still think that if Junts takes the next step for PP-Vox, they will pay a heavy price.