What a mess of a creature

Clever like few others at sowing maleficent unrest or unease, seasoned in the trenches of the slum fight, of mud and spit - the same mud he is now trying to demonise - and, above all, in the real need to survive and resurface after one or more setbacks by resisting and swallowing all kinds of millstones, for a long time, even if only thanks to a miserable, hard-earned crust of bread and a little water as the only sustenance, and with very few friends to follow him and encourage him to overcome it with a high degree of credibility.

Someone forged in his own personal hatreds and raised at the breasts of a certain Zapatero of such disastrous memories for the world and, fundamentally, for Spaniards; a character who almost led us to total ruin and, despite all his bluster and thousands of lies and misdeeds, continues to appear in many international circles, especially on the other side of the pond.

Able to disrupt and disarm for good - with the unrivalled help of his overbearing Foreign Minister - the ways of diplomacy and Spain's traditional history to divert the attention of a public that expects him to get down to real defence and real evidence once and for all in the affairs of his personal politics, that of his government and, crucially, the bizarre and unethical affairs of the Spanish government, the strange and unethical affairs of his beloved wife, whom he presents as an unblemished professional - without her having sufficient background to do so, but only the light knowledge of an amateur - although with the same capacity to stick her nose into matters that are none of her business and which the slightest logic tells her are beyond all prudence, decency and the good work of the wife, without any official position, of a high official.

Among his international records, it is worth noting that after an already long list of countries snubbed by him or his government, as an example of personal self-improvement, in just one week he has been able to break off official relations with two countries with which, since their forced, consensual and humanitarian birth at the end of the Second World War or after almost two centuries as true brothers, Spain had maintained very good and profound relations of friendship, trade and mutual aid, above all in times and situations of real emergency or need.

Breaks which, as has been his style bordering on the vulgar, have been carried out suddenly, without consulting the opposition, the legislative chambers, the relevant consultative bodies or following a national referendum that would show the way forward, however much the aforementioned personage grants himself powers that do not correspond to him and tries to deceive us all with the old story that they respond to a great clamour of popular need.  

Decisions taken, moreover, at inopportune moments and against the prudent standard of conduct adopted by the countries around us or the alliances to which we belong. They were carried out without considering the consequences that such a stance could have for Spain, its industry, trade and national security, and without clear margins as to with whom and how the agreements that he intends to promote are to be defined and arbitrated.

A man capable of doing anything that comes to mind without thinking whether it is right or wrong, whether he can or should do it and what the consequences will be for us. Thus, he is leading his person and the figure of Spain itself to laughable situations of mockery or derision inside and outside Spain by exposing his perverse intentions and the increasingly difficult to conceal ways he must use to avoid answering anything that the opposition and society legally have the right to inquire about or ask about.

As a good autocrat and a man who thinks he is the Sun King himself, he is convinced that he is the State. A more than dangerous situation for which he does not mind flooding and groping openly and unabashedly all the state bodies and institutions, without regard for the democratic separation of powers and the fact that he cannot and should not exercise control over them all in his own hands, unless he wants to turn Spain into a banana republic that nobody will want to know anything about or trust.

He put on a Dantesque spectacle when, in the middle of the parliamentary seat and while the head of the opposition was speaking, he tried in a shocking and ostentatious way to get the president of the House - the highest representative of legislative power - to obey him and take the floor from him, something he was quick to deny twice when the person at the lectern noticed such a "feat" and publicly and notoriously reproached him for it. 

A prime minister who does not govern as democratic canons dictate because he is incapable of presenting and approving laws, except for those he promotes and which are of exclusive and personal interest to his avid and vile legislative peers. These are all those who define themselves as the bitter enemies of Spain. 

Proof of this is that, as they knew they were going to be overthrown by their own government and close associates, they did not even present the first budgets of their legislature, when it is about to complete its first year as such; he has been forced to withdraw the Land Law in extremis, because he already knew that his government partners and close associates, as before, were going to overturn it, unless it was the PP that came to Uncle Pedro's defence, which was going to happen, as he was informed.

A specialist in muddling everything up, in mixing concepts and issues of all kinds, even if they are of different depth and scope so that, when asked about something specific, he can talk about everything and not focus on anything. Someone who, lately, begins his speeches in a sheepish and good person's voice - as after his incredible and recent five-day spiritual or amorous retreat -, requesting the necessary support from everyone, his own and others, to redirect situations and lower the soufflé of the political brawl, to, immediately afterwards, take his meat grinder and mincer out for a walk and leave no one with a head, dedicating the best of his fetid and offensive repertoire to each and every one of them. 

A failure in politics except in the facet of spurious and not at all noble pacts to keep his ass in the Moncloa in exchange for whatever is necessary, as has already been demonstrated with absolute clarity; who is incapable of finding support outside Spain for his puerile proposals and ideas, whether his own or those of a few irrelevant countries, who, being in the hands of others as irresponsible as him, do not pay attention to the repercussions that his revolutionary acts against the tide can have for their respective countries and for the world economy or security.