Too much for Sánchez
After listening to the president in his " Aló, myself", a robbery at three o'clock every weekend, I come to the same conclusion as Ana Oramas, the Canarian deputy who best portrayed him in Parliament: "He only goes to the source in Parliament (and on TV) when he is thirsty". He can be reading the teleprompter for forty minutes without contributing a single new idea or giving off any conviction in the soulless text written to him by his assistants in the field for such convulsive times.
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It' s hard to believe a man who doesn' t provide data and, in the line of his Minister of the Interior, Grande-Marlaska, "you don' t have to be ashamed of anything". Standing by what "the advisers" say, he sticks his head in the sand while the invisible corpses exceed 17,000 and become not a personal national tragedy but a mere statistic. In this last appearance, he wore a dark tie in contrast to the crimson-colored one worn by the Holy Thursday in Congress. He did so, however, to accompany Macron at the funeral for the Bataclam attack (89 dead) in rigorous mourning. Out of almost a thousand Monclovite advisers, is there not one - Ivan Redondo himself - who urges him to have the flags flown at half-mast in all the official buildings as a sign of mourning for the dead and respect for the survivors? Is he not capable of setting an example of solidarity with the victims - of which we are all - by showing a black ribbon in the left buttonhole of his tailored suit? No. No sensibility in this time of silence and pain. Visit, like Mayor Almeida, the morgues and console the bereaved? No.
We all know friends or family members who have died or been affected by the Chinese virus. How many elderly people have died in nursing homes, and how many, not counting those at home, after the nursing homes closed and did not report their deaths? The infections have multiplied, but these deaths don't count either in Castilla-La Mancha or in Castilla y León, as far as I know. Have the elderly been prevented from going to hospitals? That would be a crime. We want to know the truth, to mourn our dead and the complete numbers.
The president has made a speech that rewrites the truth in his own way, when we are at the top of the world ranking of all coronavirus records: highest number of deaths per 100,000 habitants. And the highest number of soldiers in the front line (infected health personnel: 20,000 people).
He always promises that he is doing everything possible to make sure that they have the essential material, but his management is very poor. Not a word of thanks to Amancio Ortega for the money (65 million euros) and the logistics provided ( by Inditex) in this fight and not a word either for the five Spaniards who in record time have managed to bring four robots that will allow 80,000 rapid tests to be carried out per day for the amount of 400,000 dollars. The plane from Singapore has been chartered by Don Amancio. Not a single television gesture for the Galician businessman because Iglesias and his Podemos mariachis are against the Galician businessman, who, by the way, will pay the full salaries of his more than 60,000 workers.
In this last appearance, he silenced one of his trick arguments: that they didn't know anything. The State's lawyers, requested by the National Court, admitted last Saturday that, in fact, since January 24, the Government knew the seriousness of the pandemic. Why do all the Monclovite spokespersons keep lying to us? Because there is no transparency for many minutes that the explanations about "the virus of lies" are televised. Simon had already announced "that the coronavirus wouldn't arrive here, or at most, some isolated case". What a visionary! The only thing that is certain is that we had to get to 8M with the ministers and the president's wife at the head of the feminist demonstrations. As always, invested with a false modesty that he doesn't possess, Sanchez intends to spread his responsibility to the opposition of the PP and Ciudadanos, not to JxCat, ERC, Bildu and PNV who have already left him in the lurch.
The problem with the current Secretary General of the PSOE is that he only thinks about staying at La Moncloa. That is his main objective so far, that the coronavirus has relieved him of his "no is no" and his "government of insomnia with UP". He knows that this pandemic is "too much" for his ambition and that his survival only depends on National Reconstruction Pacts (NRPs) that will allow him to reach the Rubicon of 2023. But he can't deal with this social-communist government alone ( in Google they already consider Spain a communist country like Cuba and Venezuela) because his own separatist partners are not to be trusted. And, now, he is asking for an agreement recalling the Pacts of La Moncloa of '77.
Sánchez is not Suárez - " the concord was possible ", he prays in his tomb in the cathedral of Ávila -, and he possesses neither his auctoritas nor his potestast. Adolfo Suárez didn't aspire to stay in power at any price and only sought to install democracy and freedom. The Pacts of La Moncloa were the hard work of Professor Fuentes Quintana and his team of collaborators who, as Manuel Lagares recalled a few hours ago, wrote a text after talking to all the parties involved. As a result of these assignments, one year later, we had the Constitution of 1978.
What base text does the president have prepared? None. Will he wait for the script to be marked by Iglesias, Torra, Otegui and Junqueras before imposing it on the PP, Cs, VOX, CEOE, CC.OO, UGT, Autonomous Communities, and Town Councils? He is waiting for it. When this health war is over, will he continue his unconditional surrender to Catalonia and the Basque Country, invoking the plurinationality of the peoples of Spain? Can the President of the Government guarantee that these new political, economic and social Pacts will not serve to break the unity of the Nation? Will the government begin by drastically reducing the ministries by half (and the high offices by half) in order to set an example of ethics and austerity? You will see that it will not. Of course, more public debt is needed so that no one is left in the lurch, but let's give the cutback on superfluous spending a chance.
The president's mouth is filled with two words: unity and loyalty. But his record teaches us that his word is worth less than nothing, and that his loyalty to those who support him in Congress to keep the lockdown only lasts until Mrs. Lastra takes the stand and insults - in the name of the boss - to Pablo Casado, to Arrimadas and to Abascal. Mr Sánchez is right about one thing: now more than ever there is a need for NRPs. Because this task is not worthy of a man as mediocre and sectarian as Dr. Pedro Sánchez, for interpreting Felipe González' words with generosity.
The moment of truth has arrived for Spain and for Europe. The EU has responded reluctantly to this challenge of the coronavirus. Nothing will ever be the same again. The pandemic has brought parallel economic and social desolation. Will we reach the 5 million unemployed? Of course, many here - especially the young - think that hunger is worse than the coronavirus. Globalization has failed to take advantage of opportunities for solidarity and, as Pope Francis rightly pointed out in his Easter homily, "the future of the world will depend on the joint solution of the European continent". The world to come is about to be invented. One thing is clear: our children will not be able to live as we have lived.
It is time for a commitment to the Spanish state of well-being. And the Pacts for National Reconstruction are a requirement. Echenique says that UP supports them because the carpet and the official car are pure progressivism, while Iglesias lies like a good communist when he assures TVE that he has reached an agreement with the unions and the employers to fix the Living Income Salary (SRV) - a new state-level PER to mutualize the vote. And the president of the employers, Antonio Garmendi, denies it. Media pressure as a political weapon.
Mr. Sánchez spoke of the de-escalation of politics and its openness to consensus. Well, he knows that his investiture partners only want him to maintain their privileges. Will these agreements open the door to the constitutional rupture and to the beginning of a constitutional period where the monarchy is questioned? Will we leave open a window-trap to put to referendum the Fourth Republic and the independence of the Autonomous Regions of the Basque Country (annexing Navarre) and allowing the enlargement - the living space' - of this to the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and part of Aragon? While it continues with its special powers -the biggest in democracy-, will the Government assure that it will not intervene the economy reinterpreting the article 128 as its partner pretends?
It's true that it's not easy to trust a man like Sanchez. Citizens have given him an almost blank check. VOX is asking for his resignation as if Sanchez were not an iceman. There's still the appeal to the PP. Casado doesn't trust a man who is going to make all the decisions alone by decree law and then accuse him of being unpatriotic if he doesn't vote for him.
Spain needs a NRP urgently. Because the economic crisis cannot wait. We are in discount time with the country paralyzed. The important thing is not to arrive alone or early, but together and on time. The People's Party knows that the time of salvation has come. It must demand three prior conditions: a written working draft that can be modified without twisting the Magna Letter and, once signed, valid until 2025; general elections in the spring or summer to check the management of this coalition government that makes a lot of propaganda and to leave public TV in the hands of the opposition before it is destroyed by Rosa María Mateo. It wouldn't be a bad idea to put an end to the robberies at three o'clock on the weekends on all media platforms. In this urgent and necessary NRP, there is no one left. Because it is not important to arrive alone or soon, but together and on time. Saving Spain is too much for Sánchez.