The show is judged by the last act, always meant to dazzle, capture attention, and monopolize the commentary. Such is the current reality.
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While the show of Judge José Luís Calama, the UDEF, and José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero has not yet ended on track number one, a new act begins without interruption on track 2.
Sánchez will hold out without calling elections and there will be no vote of no confidence
This one stars magistrate Santiago Pedraz and the UCO rummaging through the PSOE headquarters. Snooping into the accounting in search of evidence confirming that the manager, Ana Fuentes, paid false invoices on orders from the former organization secretary Santos Cerdán to Leire Díez. Money so that the party’s sewer worker could operate without constraints through the national sewer system to flood with fecal material anyone – official, police, prosecutor, or journalist – who could harm the interests of the socialist family.
The concentration of events raises the pressure. It already happened when the indescribable ignominy of the torrentino trio Koldo-Ábalos-Cerdán was exposed. WhatsApp groups, text messages, or phone calls obsessively revolved for days around the million-dollar question: Will Sánchez hold out? Will he call elections? Will there be a vote of no confidence?
The answers remain the same today as then: he will hold out. He will not call elections. There will be no vote of no confidence. Pointed hail falls from the sky. And it is true that the Prime Minister, no doubt about it!, has the guts to navigate rough waters. But it is not his mythicized manual of resistance that keeps him tied to the main mast of Moncloa, as if he were a hero from the Marvel factory.
Superman had the red cape and Thor a powerful hammer. What Sánchez has is a green raincoat that repels all water, no matter the intensity of the downpour. A premium raincoat from the Vox brand. It is the party of Santiago Abascal that keeps him anchored in Moncloa without needing to call the polls. It is in the far right where the president’s superpowers begin and end. In the ability to shout whenever he needs to, that is, very often: The wolf is coming! Even if he lacks to add: Settle for a fox!
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He returned to the same proclamation yesterday in Rome, in the last question he answered to journalists: Me or chaos. In Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León, and Andalusia that chaos he threatens with has won by a landslide. This is starting to resemble the legendary joke by El Perich in the magazine Hermano Lobo . A politician wants to scare those listening with this expression: Either us or chaos! The rally attendees all respond in unison that, if they have to choose, they prefer chaos. To which the speaker replies: It doesn’t matter, chaos is us too!
Vox cures everything. It turns any outrage, from the leftist and nationalist perspective, into something perfectly digestible and forgivable. That is why the current political board remains standing, even though the wood shows clear signs of rot. Junts and PNV are paralyzed. They cry out for the end of the legislature but make its continuation possible. Who dares to take the step of voting yes to a vote of no confidence if that means handing the key to Spain’s governability to the far right?
We said that everything is judged by the last to arrive: Zapatero, the raid on the PSOE headquarters, or whatever is going to happen today or tomorrow. As if by adding weight to one side of the scale, it must finally give way. And of course, an unbearable atmosphere, focused on corruption and abuse by the ruler, increases the chances of ending up voting sooner than expected.
But there is something much more serious that hovers over all the above. The president forgets that all his power implies a double surrender of sovereignty, from the citizen to Congress and from Congress, through the articulation of a parliamentary majority, to his person and government. Sánchez constantly shows contempt for this fundamental pillar of democracy, more important than corruption, whether alleged or proven.
When you know your minority in Congress is already structural, that you will not be able to approve a single budget in the entire legislature, that you are forced to govern through decrees that the Lower House will not validate and yet, you stick to your guns, you are prostituting the idea of democracy. With an excuse, that is, as theatrical as, so far, effective: The wolf is coming! Settle for a fox!
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