Politics as a novel, by Verónica Fumanal

When politics is a Personal theme the essay ends and the novel begins, the one that shreds the network of personal relationships that explain the reason for the compromise, who is a friend of whom, who is fighting and why, betrayals, loves, passions, enmities and loyalties relegate to the role played by alliances, strategy and political ends. Spanish politics left the essay a long time ago and has become a novel, in which the political objectives in favor of who I like or who is my friend seem to matter little. The new social categorization has left behind the ideological currents to embrace the principle of friendship as an element of political cohesion.

Honestly, it is difficult to identify from an analytical point of view what are the increasingly pressing differences between Yolanda Díaz and Unidas Podemos. The word “union” and its derivatives “united & rdquor;, “united & rdquor; they were never used to nominate a more fragmented space. The atomization of purples does not have an ideological or strategic component, but is explained by the breakdown of personal relationships of a party that, oh coincidence! It boasted of originating from a group of friends: what could go wrong when friendship and power come together in the same sentence? The penultimate discrepancy is led by Vice President Yolanda Díaz and the former leader of Podemos and anointer of her leadership. And the rupture, we will see if definitive, has two divergent stories more typical of a novel, where disloyalty or betrayal are the main plots.

The most furious critics in Spanish parliamentary politics lately also respond to personal issues, the last and most obvious, the harassment received by Minister Montero for her personal life. It is necessary to remember that, unlike Yolanda Díaz, who owes both her appointment and her elevation (a priori) as UP candidate to Pablo Iglesias, Irene Montero was voted for by the Assembly of United We Can and that, for therefore, its legitimacy emanates directly from the will of those registered with Podemos. The latest campaign on social networks of the Popular Party has also exploited the more personal side of politics, through official profiles they indicated each of the socialist deputies, with names, surnames and photographs, inviting the citizens of their regions to “convinced” them & rdquor; of vote against the reform of the crime of sedition. This signaling campaign was intended to intimidate the deputies in their most personal sphere, when they are outside the chamber, with their families, on the street, in a park… an infamous campaign inappropriate for a party that has governed.

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Of novel it is also the journey of macarena olona, who at no time has given political reasons for his separation from Vox. His deregistration statement was based on questions of a personal nature, related to health. After his secession from the ultra party, he has not stopped making the personal a political communication strategy. Both the road to Santiago and his trip to Panama are part of the narrative of his political resurgence and both situate that motivation on his personal level. I suppose that later on, in this novel that he urgently needs to feed so as not to die of irrelevance in the media, he will reveal questions of a personal nature about his former Vox colleagues. More chapters for a novel that will have its epilogue in a candidacy forced by the popular acclaim of those who so want her back in Congress.

The philias and phobias always explained a good part of the political backstage. They say that the first tripartite in Catalonia (2003-2006) could only be understood by the good harmony of the three leaders. However, it is hard for me to think of a political moment in the recent history of our country in which almost everything has been personal or has been reported as an argument for political legitimacy. The attacks on the central government are not carried out from a political level, in fact, it seems that the opposition likes most of the policies that are approved, since their attacks are focused on the character traits of the president of the Government, the most repeated has been that of traitor, they will not tell me that this is not more typical of a character in a novel than a political essay.

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