Debunking COVID-19

The first hundred days of the government coalition have had few days of glory. Most of them have been unfortunate because the Chinese virus shattered all scenarios minutes after wanting to return home "alone and drunk" on 8M. In this time of uncertainty, Peter and Paul, in spite of having greased their propaganda machinery, have not been able to explain why masks do not reach pharmacies, protective suits do not reach hospitals - 30,000 infected health workers - and safe tests do not reach citizens.

Yesterday we learned that the epidemiological report, which is essential for planning the de-escalation announced three weeks ago, will be implemented from 27 April and will last two months. The response to unfortunate management is always the same: the material will arrive next week. They are eternal improvisation.
 

The embarrassment of fake transparency on permanent television (with sermons from La Moncloa beginning with the Sánchez-Iglesias-Redondo-Oliver leadership and ending with Illa, Montoro, Díaz, Celáa, González Laya, Duque, Simón, General Santiago and the Minister of the Interior, Grande-Marlaska, using the Benemérita to " minimise the adverse mood towards the government's inefficient management". Censorship, first; then, repression. It was not a slip of the tongue, Minister, that was read by the Guardia Civil chief of staff. You had given the revoked order last Tuesday. And, on top of that, you are not capable of defending it in the Senate. So go lie somewhere else, even if you don't regret anything!

The spectacle about the authorisation for children to go outside after being confined to their homes after listening to the spokesperson and the head of the Health Department correcting what was agreed by the Council of Ministers after the pulse of UP, the partner of the Executive itself, was impressive. The profiles of the Ministry of Health are as fake as Pedro Sánchez's followers on social networks.

The episode of hoaxes against institutions is a threat to freedom of expression. Isn't it controlling of the press what MAO - Miguel Ángel Oliver - is doing by acting as the official controller of the Kingdom by preventing journalists from directly questioning the propagandists of the Presidential Palace?  This government - I want to save Defense Minister Margarita Robles - has been given the greatest power since the previous regime, but it wants it all and, moreover, for free. It begins by restricting private freedom and ends in the "exprépiese!" of Chávez and Maduro.

It is clear that this social-communist administration does not pay attention to any technical team and does not listen to anything other than the opinion polls of the illustrious Tezanos, a supporter of the National Press of the Movement, NO-DO included. It is freedom, you fools!
 

After the telematic meeting between the president and the leader of the opposition, Pablo Casado, it seems clear that Pedro Sánchez has changed the pace to re-edit the II Pacts in order to continue in La Moncloa. The National Reconstruction Board (MRN) will be located in Congress, but is subject to "unanimity in the parliamentary groups," according to the president. He is responsible for the leadership of the operation, but has not yet presented the working protocol or a single document open to discussion and improvement. Most hopefully, the beginning of the agreement has upset nationalists and separatists. This indicates that we are on the right track. UP will hold out because the official car, the carpet and the garden are a privilege for all castes.

The Commission should be presided over by PP because we already know how the conclusions are drawn when they put an ordinary Paulino Rivero at the head, as in the case of 11-M. Maybe one day in the next century we will know what really happened.

The post-Coronavirus crisis will be, above all, psychological, economic and social. Seven of every 100 Spaniards (not civil servants) are afraid of losing their jobs. Uncertainty is the worst enemy when it comes to finding the right solutions. The Spanish need a project for the immediate future based on empathy, leadership and transparency. And with absolute respect for the Law of Laws.

The agreement's philosophy must contemplate an urgent health plan to control the pandemic; a strategic plan to get out of confinement and economic revival, a social action plan that leaves no one in the lurch and a common unity to negotiate vigorously in Brussels. Ideas-strength proposed by Inés Arrimadas for a difficult time that must include the neutrality of the CIS and TVE in the whole process. Millions and millions of euros. There is no alternative. We need an urgent NRP. We have to survive death and ruin.
 

If the Socialist leader has compromised by sitting behind the table at the seat of national sovereignty, it is because he knows that not only the Legislature but also his own political future depends on this Pact for National Reconstruction (PRN), which was endorsed by those who supported him after last November's elections. There are commitments (unavowable and extra-parliamentary) with Torra, Junqueras, Otegui and Urcullu and other secrets with Pablo Iglesias, which cripple loyalty and unity.

United We Can (which is government and opposition simultaneously) will take advantage of these exceptional circumstances to return to Bolivarian privatisations. Iglesias is the biggest obstacle in reaching post-Coronavirus agreements. His very anti-European approach will make it very difficult to mutualise Spain's debt, which will rise from 98 to 130 per cent before the end of the year. And perhaps we will once again reach - as with ZP - five million unemployed. This would mean that, as of 2021, the government would have to create 4000 jobs every day in order to return to the current employment rate by 2023.

It does not seem that this coalition will be able to raise our country after the management demonstrated in the fight against coronavirus. The Pact will therefore entail a political regime of PSOE, PP and Citizens (it would be desirable to have VOX's votes), because this great mission is too much for a visionary Caesar like Mr Sánchez Pérez-Castejón. And in two years' time, general elections following the approval of budgets for the end of this endless war.
 

Iglesias, in conjunction with his position as Vice President of the Spanish administration, continues his attempts to destabilise institutions and democracy. Dangerous because of his membership with the CNI. Without going any further, on April 14th, with 18,000 dead unable to be mourned, the populist and communist leader abhorred the head of state "because he wears military clothes" and pointed out that his priority was the "III Republic". (Of course, it mixes well with the olive green of Fidel, Che Guevara and Chavez.)

And Sánchez does not defend the Paramentarist Monarchy outside or inside Parliament, as he did when he was attacked by the Catalan coup leaders. We know well - and the opposition also knows - that this insomniac government is based on staying in power. And that it will not be broken, nor will anyone resign.

The first condition to begin talks in the NRM must be to debunk COVID-19 and think of public interest. Roles, debates and transfers in all directions. If there is no consensus at this grave moment - the most difficult in our history since the uncivil war of 34-39 - a permanent revolution awaits us, a repression for believers of the spirit of 77 and the book of reasoning. Here, yes; here too it can happen, my friend!

The second condition is to count the invisible dead and honor them with dignity by declaring national mourning until we extinguish this plague that has come from the East and will destroy our lives and our properties. How many more dead do we need in order to remember our compatriots lost in this war? Sánchez and Ábalos - equal opposites - have forbidden paying tribute to the victims of this pandemic. Oscar Puente, mayor of Valladolid and spokesman for the socialist administration argues that "it is not necessary because since we are in confinement, no one sees the flags at half-mast". We will have to remind him of this betrayal of humanity in the 2023 elections.
 

If we analyse the President of the Government's public life, we can deduce from facts alone that he is not a man to be trusted because his word is worth less than nothing. This is a time for statesmen, but the most remarkable quality of our political class is mediocrity. But there it is.

The situation is more than critical, it is desperate. The president will have to decide in May whether he is interested in Spain and the Spaniards and get us out of this antechamber of hell with the support of the constitutionalists, or continue in the armchair at La Moncloa with a plaque from his fellow passengers from 2018, nationalists, coup leaders and separatists. Sanchez has the greatest opportunity to go down in history simply as a patriot. We must revive tourism and agriculture; support businesses, and the self-employed, SMEs and the most vulnerable sectors.

There is no one left here. We need cheap energy, austere administration and distributive justice to eradicate hunger and authoritarianism. It is as simple as that. In June we must re-float this drifting Titanic.

But this damn Chinese virus has taken thousands of innocent people with it. We have yet to feel the fear of leaving the house. It will come. We've all lost partners and family in this time. José María Calleja, a journalist committed to freedom, wrote in his final moments that "this punishment should make us stop, think, reorganise our values and how we use our time".  Our colleague Calleja had his journalist's work stopped in the middle of nowhere. May he rest in peace.
 

As I listen to the debate in Congress, I detect that the economist-president will wager tomorrow, before the EU, on "a permanent debt with interest guaranteed by the community budget. Peronist nonsense. Pablo Casado opens a minute's silence in the Chamber - his best political commitment - in memory of the invisible dead (435 more deaths, 21,717 in total and 208,389 infections).

A frightening statistic with no official compassion. Abascal (VOX) has accused the government of "being a fraud, burying thousands of Spaniards and protecting itself". It is time for consensus or, at least, for a constitutional majority.

These verses by Pedro Casaldáliga, a Spanish bishop who is a friend of the dispossessed in Central America, come to mind. "It is late", writes the poet, "but it is our time. It is late, but it is all the time we have at hand to build the future. It is late. But it is us. It is late, but it is still noon, if we insist a little".