The summit that broke all bridges | Spain
For many years, the Basque Country, and in particular its party until now hegemonic, the PNV, are the axis of the balance of Spanish politics. When the PNV changes, everything moves. In 1996 he went from agreeing with the PSOE to do so with the PP of José María Aznar. In 2004 he turned to the PSOE of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In 2016 it helped the PP by Mariano Rajoy In its lowest hours and in 2018 he gave the tip of Pedro Sánchez. That is why the words of the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales are so relevant, at the end THE PRESIDENT CONFERENCEwhich was a resounding failure.
« What happened today is embarrassing. This logic does not take us anywhere. It is pernicious for institutions, for democracy and for citizens. Seen what has been seen today, I don’t know if it is worth returning, » Pradales said. It was not the only one. The other president who is neither from the PP or the PSOE, the Canary History a president, Isabel Díaz Ayusohe left the conference because he spoke in Basque and in Catalan. Clavijo also criticized that PP communities are resisting receiving immigrants who accumulate in the Canary Islands. « They can discuss the law, but I hope they do not breach it, » he said very worried after several PP governments have agreed with Vox that they will not host a single minor.
The Presidents Conference was, for many of those present consulted by the country, a point of no return in the chasm that has been opened between the two great parties in recent years. Spanish politics is completely broken. It is no longer that there can be no agreements, several of them analyze in private, is that it begins to be very difficult even That there are meetings. The PP, as explained several of their barons, is convinced that Sánchez has started its end. And are willing to do everything in their hands to precipitate it.
« Every month that passes, the wear is going to be worse. This is not going to stop. The panorama that comes ahead will not give any truce. There will be increasingly hard judicial decisions. If he wants, he will resist until 2027, but his party will arrive in the Spanish left. The Spanish left can end like that of the rest of Europe, » says a baron of the PP.
The Madrid leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, went free and broke Genoa’s strategy, which wanted to focus The conference in the coordinated request for early elections to install the idea of the end of the cycle that wants to consolidate with the demonstration this Sunday. Ayuso was protagonist at his air, as always, and was the only one who got up and planted for a while to the other presidents and took all media attention.
The government wants to see there a PP « broken by its internal disputes, » according to a minister. But although the rest of the barons are not in that, there is a kind of dismissal atmosphere coordinated in the opposition. « In the end Sánchez is going to end up summoning the elections to sticks, » said Juanma Moreno. That is, for good or bad – the Board explained later that « to Palos » in Andalusia means forced by circumstances, it has no violent reference – the PP believes that Sanchez will not be able to resist wear.
But in the government and in the few autonomies controlled by the PSOE they see it in a completely different way. « This is something completely artificial. The PP manages to attract media attention with its commitment to mud, but the reality is that citizens are not in this. This political offensive does not correspond to the social and economic reality of the country. This is a siege of the president from the opposition, but there is no tension in the street, people are to something else, » explains an autonomous president.
In fact, The image in Barcelona this Friday It was very significant. Inside the Pedralbes Palace, the tension was maximum. But outside, on the street, just half a hundred people approached to shout at Sánchez or defend independence. An unthinkable image only a few years ago, when the king, who was starting with the appointment, had difficulties in doing public events in Barcelona.
« This strategy of Ayuso is suicidal for the PP in Catalonia and in Euskadi. He has offended many people. But also in the Balearic Islands, in the Valencian Community, in Galicia, in Navarra. This can be used for Madrid, but it was generates a lot of rejection. The PP is passing all the red lines, but that will return against them. It cohesive to us, » says another president.
“What does the PP are dynamiting for example the negotiation for co -official languages in the EU? What relationship will have after that with Junts, with the PNV, with potential partners? It is burning all the ships. They make the unressesy climate, but this is above all in Madrid. The rest of Spain is not in this logic. They cannot endure two years. While the economic cycle is positive, he will continue and the PP is not known where he goes, ”says another.
The popular have an opposite vision. They believe that Sanchez’s wear is unstoppable. « Everything that delay the decision to advance the elections will be worse for the PSOE. They will know, but we are not going to stop, » says a baron of the PP. All of them, the toughest and most moderate, are this time together in the strategy of harassment and demolition of Sánchez. And everyone will join today in the demonstration in Madrid. Antischismo is the strongest glue for the right at this time.
In the Government, while, there is a certain concern for the disaffection towards the policy that generates all this toxic climate, of which they blame the PP. In some sectors, worry that the PSOE is paralyzed by the maneuvering scandal against the dome of the UCO of his former militant Leire Díez, who walks on televisions telling his story. The PSOE is silent. No one explains anything. And government partners are restless because no one believes that she was doing a journalistic research work.
Sanchez has been a single question of the press since April 28, and thus has avoided these thorny issues. But at some point he will have to give an explanation. The opposition is trying to force an appearance in Congress that could have the votes with the support of ERC.
The Executive insist that their agenda is another, the one that interests citizens: housing, social reforms, aid. If the PP does not follow them, the rest of the autonomies yes, including Euskadi and the Canary Islands, not governed by the PSOE, which do accept the Executive’s plan to triple the investment in housing that was raised at the Presidents Conference. « At this time, to endure is winning. We are going to continue with our agenda. As much as the PP is determined, citizens are in another reality. Just see the forecasts we have for this summer, which will be again record »; Explain a minister.
What nobody considers or for a moment is that Sánchez yields and throws the towel. « The PP message is very clear: either you give me the toy or the game ends. And we are not going to give them the toy because that is not democratic, » says a minister. « We turn everything around, we have many possibilities of acting on the table, and we have partners to get them forward. But we are not going to give up because these is democracy and we have a majority in Congress and they don’t. Why don’t they present a motion of censure if not? » Explains another.
Sanchez made a joke during the conference to clear this ghost that always flies over, the idea of electoral advance. He offered everyone to ask to host the next meetings. « There will be time for everyone because the elections will be in 2027, when they touch. » The distension lasted seconds and returned the faces of circumstances. It is not even clear that there may be an upcoming meeting, given the failure of Barcelona.
The Government will continue trying to return to its normal agenda and will boost the reforms it has in the portfolio. The PP, meanwhile, will continue to throw all the flesh in the grill, achieve or not his goal of knocking Sánchez. In a short time it will be known which of the two strategies has more strength. But what already seems safe is that Spanish politics is broken for a long period of time.
