Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Sánchez is concerned about his judicial horizon'

Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish government, and the PSOE are still hanging by a thread. Or choose the metaphor you like: right now, the Moncloa Palace is a smoking hole after a meteorite fell and blew everything apart: the story of someone who became president thanks to the corruption of the PP, the trust with the government partners (Yolanda Díaz said this morning that Sánchez's "and you more" yesterday in the PP was shameful and that she wants decisions, and the investiture partners (Esquerra yesterday) are very disappointed with Sánchez's lack of forcefulness and want guarantees that he won't. Communications have emerged, for example, that Cerdán was the owner of a company that collected the commissions. The contract exists; now it remains to be seen whether Cerdán actually profited. The emergence, every day, of new details is devastating for the government.

Sánchez will hold out, at least for a few months, provided, of course, that no information emerges that further compromises him, such as that the Socialist Party has been irregularly financed with public works commissions. But he will hold out, among other things, because he knows that a section of the judiciary will not hesitate to prosecute him at the earliest opportunity. For collecting pardons, amnesties, everything. In other words, Sánchez knows that the worst that can happen to him is not that he will join the opposition, but that he will go to jail, or at least, to the dock. The day he ceases to be president, the current political ordeal may end, but a judicial ordeal may begin.

The shock wave from the meteorite has reached Catalonia and has affected President Illa.

In yesterday's control session in Parliament, the People's Party (PP) and Vox directly questioned him about the conversations he has over Signal with a man named Chili, who appears in a report and with whom, according to a conversation reproduced by the Civil Guard, Illa speaks a lot.

"If I've been investigated, I don't know. I deduce that they have. I deduce that they have been since I was a minister. And I have no problem with them investigating me, I don't have to hide from anything. And I have no fucking idea who this Chili guy is, and I talk on Signal with whoever suits my phone and why it suits me to talk on Signal and hide."  

This is the political chronicle of the day, which overshadows everything. Today, the statutes of the joint venture between the State and the Generalitat (Catalan Government) Rodalies Catalunya are being presented.

Good morning.