Sewers stamped politics | Spain

One of the worst things that can happen to a government is to lose control of the political agenda. For just over a month, from the Bru what of April 28the Executive fails to introduce virtually no positive topic in the Spanish public conversation. It is not that I do not make decisions. It is not that things are going wrong in the economy. The Ibex is at record levelsall institutions improve growth forecasts, Employment also beating all preceding brands. But the government cannot place almost anything on the agenda. And the opposition lives a moment of euphoria and tries to install the idea that the Executive is about to fall.

Some in the PP believe that the time may have come that have been waiting for seven years. Others are more prudent, and José María Aznar himself, who always summarizes the state of opinion on the right, asks for “cold head but maximum vital tension” and recommends Alberto Núñez Feijóo not present A motion of censure and that it is patient because the elections will be in 2027.

The PP resorts as always to a great demonstration to cover the space to Vox and encourage its own. « If everything they have is a new photo of Columbus, go ahead, if you want to continue looking for voters in the 8 (the ultra -right) instead of looking at 6 (the center -right) we will not prevent you from being mistaken, » summarizes a member of the Executive.

In the background are the sewers of political and business power and the so -called deep state, which have struck politics until the entire debate has blocked, and have unleashed a real war of recordings on either side. While the government, the PSOE and a good part of its partners They live it as a kind of executive attack From these deep powers of the State Security Forces, from business, media and political interests, in the opposition they interpret the opposite, which is the political power that tries to destroy the Central Operational Unit (UCO), the flagship of the Civil Guard that currently investigates the main cases that affect the ex -women of the Executive as José Luis Ábalos or the president’s family.

The idea of ​​conspiracy, even « undercover coup d’etat », as defined by the most emboldened, has been installed in the environment of socialist power. « There is a police, media, judicial and political front. There is a table in Madrid formed by journalists, judges, police, members of the IBEX 35 and the PP who is working to assemble all this, » summarizes a member of the Executive.

The publication of the conversations with a confidant of a UCO officer, Captain Juan Vicente Bonilla, who now works in the administration of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in which he criticizes the government of Sánchez, have finished convincing the Executive that there are isolated elements of this unit that supposedly work to harm him. Not the institution itself, but there is a conviction that some of its members have been out of control for political reasons. Speculation about the alleged content of a report of the Ábalos case in which reference is made to Santos Cerdán and that is not yet concluded have finished consolidating that idea. And they have also increased the discomfort in the PSOE with Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, for not being able to control this situation.

« There are seven years wasted to clean up the structure of the Civil Guard. You cannot allow that cancer to grow, » summarizes a member of the Executive on alleged actions of the Armed Institute against Moncloa. « Sometimes it seems that we are in the government, but we do not govern. There is a sense of lack of authority in total interior, » says another. A third defends the minister: « Marlaska is still a great asset, the right cannot with him, disavowing any speech against him, was a very hard judge against ETA, had death threats and was close to the PP. It remains an important value. »

Now some trust that The change in the interior dome and the entrance to the Security Secretary of Aina Calvoformer mayor of Mallorca and clear political profile, can improve the situation. Sanchez maintains his unconditional support to Marlaska, but someone’s appointment with direct connection with the PSOE is a clear gesture of trying to make more politics in a very sensitive ministry and that was almost always in the hands of politicians of maximum confidence of the party and not of independents such as Marlaska.

Meanwhile, the PP is increasingly grown, as much as to cross more red lines until now, asThe message in networks of Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday which he called « Mafia Capo » to the president of the government. Sanchez has decided not to enter that rag and, in fact, it has been, precisely from the blackout, not answering questions; But the president is outraged, according to his surroundings, and attributes it to an anxiety of the opposition leader by the PP Congress in July and for his fierce battle with Vox, which continues to eate for him and mark the line.

The idea that Sanchez could fall and in any case believe that wear will be increasing until 2027 or when it conveters. « We believe that every month until 2027 it will already be wear. This week there has been a substantial change, but from now on it will be worse. The power of the audios has nothing more, » says a leader of the Feijóo party.

Refers to the audios in which a socialist militant, Leire Díez, maneuvering against one of the UCO leaders, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, head of the Department of Economic Research and Anti -Corruption; and in which An entrepreneur, Javier Pérez Dolsethe comes to say that behind everything – just a few seconds have been disseminated without context of a conversation, the businessman protests – Sánchez and Cerdán would be. Pérez Dolset has explained in various media that these audios are manipulated and taken from context, and that he does not work for the PSOE, but for himself, because he considers himself a victim of a police and fiscal conspiracy to harm him. In fact, he explained that he has 17 people working to decrypt the famous audios of Villarejo and achieve more information about the sewers of the State.

In the PSOE they have been disconnected from Díez and have opened a disciplinary file. But apart from that, in the government they insist that in the worst case, what Díez and Pérez Dolset were doing was trying to obtain information to find an alleged corrupt plot inside the UCO. And that, if true, insist, deserve an investigation. Although the truth is that Díez flatly failed in his attempt, because no harmful information for the UCO or indications that this unit is maneuvering against the government never appeared. Nor were any of the benefits offered to entrepreneurs for that information.

And from now on? « Everyone is asking us to do something, it is not enough to denounce that there is a mafia campaign against us, we have to do something to stop it, » says a government member. Others talk about forming a team in the PSOE or the Executive to face a strategy defined before this offensive. But Sanchez has given clear instructions these days: “There are many nervous people, but Sanchez asks for peace of mind. We know there is nothing. It’s like the WhatsApps (between the leader of the PSOE and Ábalos), They can get those who want, but there will be nothing strange because nothing weird has been done. You have to keep calm. Everything happens and is diluted because there is nothing concrete that can end in court, ”they point out from the president’s environment. He seems to bet as if nothing with the government’s agenda, and trust that at some point he will re -enter the conversation again.“ Before the policy of uploading the decibels, you have to react with good proposals and talk about the things that concern people. There are times that is heard and sometimes not. But we are going to continue ”, summary from the Moncloa.

The tension will continue and it is likely to grow on the way to the PP Congress, but soon there will be other delicate issues, such as the Increase in defense spendingwith the NATO summit at the end of the month, or the decision of the Constitutional Court on the amnesty, That is imminent. And the new controversies will cover the previous ones.