Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'The president of Aragon threatens: "By fair means or foul."'

We are piling up issues.

BBVA's takeover bid for Sabadell. After the conditions set by the Spanish government yesterday, the question is: under these conditions, is BBVA still interested in buying Sabadell? Will its shareholders be interested? Sabadell doesn't think so; in Madrid newspapers, you can read things like "The Sánchez government has dealt a fatal blow to the takeover bid, and BBVA is already planning to withdraw.The tightening of conditions has received applause from Isla, PIMEC, and Fomento. They consider the operation dead, and the EU turns up its nose, so the political establishment doesn't limit market operations. The proposal is to extend it for two more years, that is, for a total of five years. This doesn't mean that the takeover bid, and therefore the integration, cannot prosper if more than half of the Valles-based bank's shareholders decide to sell their shares. Waiting for BBVA to decide what it plans to do now.

And we are also awaiting the Constitutional Court's ruling on the amnesty law.

It could be today because final deliberations have already begun. The judges concluded yesterday that the Spanish Constitution does not prohibit amnesty.

Speaking of courts, a judge has asked the Supreme Court to indict Minister Bolaños for embezzlement and false witness in the case involving the hiring of an assistant to Begoña Gómez, President Sánchez's wife. The minister has said he's very calm. But he already explained last week that what Sánchez and some of his ministers fear most is not ending up in the opposition, but ending up in prison. There is a section of the judiciary that has not tolerated either pardons or amnesty and will not hesitate to act against Sánchez at the earliest opportunity. "Whatever he can do, let him do," Aznar once said.

One who does is the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, of the PP, who has warned that The Sijena sentence will be carried out "by fair means or foul", because the MNAC is "deceiving" with the execution incident it has raised to try to prevent the transfer. Paintings that were in the Lleida bishopric, saved by the Republican Generalitat from the fire that the townspeople themselves set alight in July 1936, very fragile paintings preserved as best as possible for 90 years, are now victims of the same old Spanish offensive, ecclesiastical first, to cut the diocese's votes. What does "a la culpa" mean? Anti-Catalanism is so constitutive of Spanish politics that the language of the threat of a pincer has become normal. 

Finally, Donald Trump says: "There's a problem with Spain. There's always a problem with Spain." But he meant the 5% of GDP commitment to military spending by NATO countries, which he wants to be enforced. By fair means or foul.

Good morning.