Let me, the readers, twist a Spanish proverb a little to explain the keys to the investiture. Let’s start with Pedro Sanchez. What Spain sold us to convince us that he should be president? A Spain of black and white, without graywhere you have to choose between him and his partners or Vox, denying the PP its own personality in the face of the extreme right. And the head of the PSOE also sold a Spain in which the new Government, his own, will promote measures to solve problems that concern citizens: housing, inflation, employment, health, education, dependency… It should be emphasized that Sánchez was right in choosing topics that are talked about on the street. In family and friend chats. In bars. On the living room sofa. Another thing is that the Spain that can respond to most of these concerns is the Spain of the autonomous administrations, in which the socialists now have less weight. It could aspire to agreements with the communities in the coming years on these matters and on substantive issues such as regional financing or taxation. Could. But the handful of dialectical darts that Sánchez launched at the PP barons, and especially at his Baroness Ayuso, do not precisely presage any rapprochement with the party that enjoys greater territorial power.
Sánchez dedicated little time in his first intervention to another issue that has made its way, and in a shocking way, into the street. In the family and friend chats that we mentioned before. In bars. On the living room sofa. The amnesty law. “The circumstances are what they are and we must make a virtue of necessity.” “We grant the amnesty in the name of the interest of Spain and harmony,” said the candidate to continue in Moncloa. Anyway. The measure of grace may end up generating harmony and benefiting the general interest. If so, we will report here. If it’s not, too. But It is undeniable that it has been granted to guarantee an Executive. That of PSOE and Sumar.
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The strategy of the head of the opposition was very different. For Feijóo Forgiveness to the ‘procés’ was, this Wednesday, the topic. Better said, the monotheme. She did not want to confront the applicant about other matters. “The amnesty crushes coexistence and divides the country in two.” “This investiture is promoted by political corruption.” “The amnesty does not improve coexistence, it destroys it.”
Focus on a single axis, very important, but only one and in which Vox closely marks the popular ones, it is a strategic decision. Well, but the Spain of the street, of family and friend chats, of bars and living room sofas, is a plural Spain. With various concerns among which, clearly, the amnesty has raised positions and put society under tension, but without erasing the rest of the holes that the country presents and to which the head of the PP, if he wants to establish himself in the center-right and gain ground to the extreme right in a legislature caught with tweezers, now has the opportunity to explain how he would cover them up. What would differentiate you in management from the coalition government. He repeated in the chamber that he is not president because he does not want to. Because he did not give in to Junts. That Spain that Feijóo sells, the one that would have made him president if he had decided, is not that of the parliamentary system. Today she doesn’t have it. She did not have it in the attempt to investiture her because she did not gather enough support. Vox added and subtracted at the same time. He knows. You must solve it if you want to move forward.