Antoni Bassas' analysis: "From 'Puigdemont to prison' to 'Sánchez to prison'"

Beyond the fact that we would like to see what the proven facts are and, therefore, what the incriminating evidence is has led the Supreme Court to convict the Attorney GeneralÁlvaro García Ortiz, we think that we are all on the same page as the street about why an event that had never happened before occurred, such as the conviction and disqualification of the Attorney General.

To understand this, we have to look at something else that had never happened before: in July 2023, elections were held in Spain. The People's Party (PP) already saw itself as the government and, in fact, won the elections. But then Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) found the key to the investiture and decided to make Pedro Sánchez president in exchange for amnesty. And this meant that, for the first time, the party that had won in Spain would not govern. And that, already humiliating for the PP and for all the far-right that hangs behind it, became a double humiliation because it turned out that the party that decided who would be the next Spanish president was the party of a pro-independence president of the Generalitat (Catalan government), in exile, who could not enter Spain because he had an arrest warrant against him—the treacherous Pu. It was intolerable. And not only for the PP. A couple of months ago, the Socialist president of Castilla-La Mancha, García-Page, declared on Antena 3 that Puigdemont "has forced the PSOE to approve an amnesty in which we didn't believe and which goes against our values." In short: "Puigdemont has repeatedly forced the PSOE to sell its soul."

Along the same lines, José María Aznar appears and launches his battle cry. It is November 2023: "Let him do whatever he can, let him move whatever he can, let him speak whatever he can," because Sánchez is "a danger to Spanish constitutional democracy" who has opened "an unprecedented and extraordinarily serious constitutional crisis" because "all the red lines have been crossed."

In this situation, you'll understand that being able to disqualify the Attorney General (appointed by the Spanish government) was a desirable objective as soon as it became possible. This morning, the Spanish right-wing media were salivating at the prospect of labeling the Attorney General a "criminal." And now, Sánchez must appoint a new Attorney General, someone who won't be touched, because the message is clear: Ayuso is untouchablePablo Casado tried it and lost the leadership of the PP. And now it's the Attorney General's turn. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez knows which button to push.

I mentioned last week that Professor Javier Pérez Royo had said on TV3 that, given the lack of evidence he saw in the trial against the Attorney General, a conviction would be tantamount to malfeasance. Well, yesterday, former Supreme Court Justice José Antonio Martín Pallín went even further. He told TV3 that the Attorney General's conviction "is the closest thing to a coup d'état," that is, an attempt to overthrow Sánchez from within the judiciary.

The upper echelons of the judiciary have turned against the head of power. This is not only no small matter, but the PSOE has just been told that it is not a party of the state. The PSOE has been expelled from paradise. More precisely, that part of the PSOE that has made deals of convenience with the Basque and Catalan separatists and with those further to the left. Sánchez has also played his part: he has indicted two former PSOE organizational secretaries, one of whom was a minister, and has his wife and brother under investigation. But, be that as it may, yesterday we went from "Puigdemont in prison" to "Sánchez in prison". Yesterday the Spanish government said privately that this had been a political decisionAnd it cannot be said that Catalan separatism had not warned them.

Good morning.