We will never know for sure the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, He decided to dissolve his parliament for the first time of his own free will or pressured by his leader in the PP, Pablo Casado. In any case, neither of them has achieved the goal that he was chasing Mañueco will not be able to govern alone and, on paper, he could be forced to change Ciudadanos for Vox, a much more uncomfortable partner. Casado will not be able to besiege Pedro Sánchez as he intended on the grounds that he is hot on his heels election after election. The fragile popular leader has been left in the hands of Santiago Abascal, who now has the opportunity to take revenge for the beating that inflicted on him in the Vox motion of censure. In addition, the leading role in this electoral campaign of Isabel Díaz Ayuso will give air to whom many in the PP already consider the alternative of the current president. Casado still has the possibility of enlarging his mistake of calculation if it accepts that Vox not only supports Mañueco with its votes but, for the first time, enters the government of that community. If it is the final result of the play, Casado will make it clear that in his strategy of anything goes to regain power he has no scruples and is ready to break with his party’s tradition throughout Europe of isolating the extreme right. The only consolation that the PP has left is that he has again surpassed the PSOE in Castilla y León, a circumstance that they will try to sell as a symptom of the decline of Sánchez but that, in this case, has not played in his favor .
For this, and for many other reasons, the PSOE cannot breastfeed either of their results in these elections. He has lost support and seats. And he is unable to build an alternative to the majority of the PP with Vox. The first test at the polls of the Government of Sánchez after the departure of Pablo Iglesias and the changes in the socialist ranks He hasn’t passed it with flying colors. It is true that this is not a key community in the socialist vote, but the formula of entrusting everything to European funds and salary and/or social improvements does not seem to be effective. The deployment of measures in the last week, including a PERTE for the field and the rise in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage, it has not mobilized the socialist electorate and even less that of its Podemos partners. It is clear that this government lacks the political initiative to demonstrate that it has its own project, with stable allies and with something more than money to attract voters.
Nor have they had the success that some gurus predicted the matches of the emptied Spain. Maybe it’s time to come back to reality. More than electoral pirouettes, what Spain needs is stability. A good first step might be that the PSOE invested Mañueco in exchange for nothing.