The government of Pedro Sanchez complicates its continuity with increasingly controversial decisions. Making a virtue of necessity, just as having a majority as heterogeneous as it is contradictory, makes balance increasingly difficult to achieve in the long run; that political errors increase due to the anxiety of remaining in government at all costs and that, finally, discontent grows in one's own camp and potential sympathizers increase in that of others. So far, nothing new compared to the usual basic manual of politics. It is, so to speak, the logical and predictable balance of a legislature that, due to the extraordinary circumstances of its departure, cannot give much more of itself in its content. Even if the majorities are tense, with or without a budget, and it is temporarily exhausted. The latter is more likely than the former.
Therefore, with such an explosive situation that becomes a little more problematic every day, it should not surprise us that Pedro Sánchez begins to do strange and unimaginable things just a year ago. Things that begin to reflect that the government is entering a kind of headlong rush that is difficult to assess and predict. Something that should become a golden opportunity for opponents to step on the accelerator of successes and, above all, to prove that it is indeed an alternative. First, by demonstrating that it acts with a reasonable and attractive character that offers citizens proposals that confront and solve their problems. And secondly, it has a technically solvent team to execute them successfully. A simple sum of factors that must seek the trust of those who, through moderation, remove and give more or less stable government majorities.
The statement by Alberto Núñez Feijóo this Friday goes in this direction. Another question is whether this objective has been achieved and to what extent. Without a doubt, the PP is trying to develop a strategy that wants to retrace the path of the past and show that it is an institutional alternative. Perhaps that is why it is talking unity in respect of multilateralism, which is consistent with the autonomist conception that Mariano Rajoy's PP defended and that Feijóo has always supported from Galicia. A complex nod to the difference between possible models. But a nuance of negotiation that does not close the door to the financing of Catalonia that It would be necessary to see how this would be compatible with the fairness of the finalists. that our Constitution requires for all citizens. This formulation is favored by the departure of Vox from the autonomous governments in the hands of the PP and, also, by the fact that the single financing proposal for Catalonia on which the COPS and the ERC have agreed It raises many blisters beyond the Ebro.
Moving from institutional statements to technical feasibility with numbers and a calculator, as well as the normative explanation that matches the competence, will be the definitive test of credibility that the PP will have to pass when it decides to face the details. A qualitative leap that will not be minor, since the practical results of the next government may be linked to it in the future. Without a doubt, a test of opposition resistance that will not admit any exception to the literary invocation of Lope's famous “all together”. Above all, because Feijóo's feat of maintaining the unity of a discourse that respects the institutions and unites all the baronies of the PP, will have to continue tomorrow, or perhaps the day after tomorrow, the singular temptation that one of them has to pick a fight and the noise to notice. Someone should explain to its owner that, as he said John Dewey Liberal democracy is, above all, a civilized conversation.