The chronicle | The matches mark their abysmal distance | Spain

There is generally true convention that demonstrations and concentrations in public squares reflect the feeling of society. Also where the matches go. The weekend calls have allowed us to appreciate the guideline for which they take place. Both for presence and absence. Political forces were not the convenings in Yesterday’s call to attest to Europeitydespite the weaknesses, divisions and deficiencies of the community project. Citizens who went out to defend Europe were not called by the parties. Yes by the unions (European Confederation of Trade Unions, CC OO and UGT, represented these last two by their general secretaries Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez) and by groups and civic organizations. Expert journalists in Europe such as Andrea Rizzi, from El País, among others, intervened in the spot, outside of partisan allusions. But the PSOE and add yes they knew they were there. The PP, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo in front, celebrated on May 9 the day of Europe with an act in Córdoba with leaders of the European Popular Party. In Brussels, conservatives, socialists and liberals have allied in defense of the European Union and work so that the greens are linked to that block. However, the safeguarding of the community project is not a lever of understanding in Spain between the government and the opposition.

It cannot be because the denunciation of the Spanish government before European institutions is a priority attack line in the PP strategy. The main decisions of the coalition government, the orientations of its policies even without capturing norms, or even fortuitous events, Like the Dana in Valencia and the ELECTRIC BACHEMENT OF APRIL 28still to clarify, they have been taken by the PP to different European instances to investigate the Spanish Executive. In the last case, the European areas related to energy have already been launched. Even so, the PP sees reasons to accuse the negligence cabinet and demands a research commission other than the European.

The popular ones make an exhaustive marking of the government with permanent indications to the European commissioners to strengthen surveillance on the actions of the Executive of Sánchez. PP interlocutors see plenty of reasons to act like this, as revealed in the multiple debates that promote in the European Parliament, as a prolongation of the Spanish Congress and Senate.

Apart from the deep irritation that this action causes in the Spanish Executive, in practice there are no palpable consequences, they point out in government sources. The interlocution of the government’s own president with the highest European authorities, in addition to the presidents and prime ministers of the member countries, justifies the apparent low relevance that they give to the offensive of the popular. This has only increased. The Spanish socialists in Brussels and Strasbourg, with Iratxe García as president of the group of socialists and Democrats of the European Parliament, have a remarkable degree of influence. The same as the Spanish popular Eurodiputados, belonging to the first Eurocamara group, and whose companion Dolors Montserrat has just been appointed general secretary of the European Popular Party.

If the PP, as a majority party, is placed against the PSOE in all areas, Vox places them on the same side inside and outside the European institutions. The reasons for yesterday’s concentration, in defense of the European project, for the threat of the new American administration, which despises the European Union, and the progress of the extreme right, are given by Bruces with the postulates of the Spanish ultra -right party. His spokesman for Agriculture in Congress, Ricardo Chamorro, denounced yesterday in Albacete « the fanatic policies of the PP and the PSOE in Brussels that ruin the Spanish countryside. »

In the concentration Saturday in Madrid against Pedro Sánchez PP and Vox agreed. According to the dynamics of the calls of this weekend, political leaders did not go up to the stands, but left their mark on public statements. Sanchez has to leave and call elections because he is harassed « for corruption », in addition to « incompetence », in the management of the blackout. Although the call had the seal of the PP and Vox, the citizen response dislodged a lot from those taken on other occasions since they started almost seven years ago.

The concentration in The Madrid Plaza de Saturday on Saturday was developed in parallel to another in the center of Madrid of very different sign. Different organizations requested the total break with Israel and the most severe sentence in Spain and the European Union for « the genocide » that is perpetrated in Gaza, killing its population with bombs and hunger. We can raised his Voice against the Governmentas well as IU, which is part of the Executive through adding. The distance with the government was the saint and sign on the left and the right, in the weekend demonstrations, without banks of the matches.