Antoni Bassas's analysis: 'This is a cesspool'

Tomorrow the ARA will turn 15, and today might be a good day to explain some of that analysis. It's very simple: when you sit down first thing in the morning to analyze the news, you have to use several lenses: the microscope, to see details that might go unnoticed but are and will be fundamental; the wide-angle lens, to see everything in its entirety; and the telescope, to see further and gain perspective. And then, after everything has been recounted and debated, you have to choose and prioritize the facts. Well, today, after examining the most important news stories from every angle, I've come to the conclusion that I can only tell you that this is a stinking mess.

For a start, Today, the Supreme Court could send former minister José Luis Ábalos to prison.Remember that Ábalos, before becoming a minister in Pedro Sánchez's government, was the number three in the PSOE and, above all, a close collaborator of Sánchez when they traveled around Spain trying to get him re-elected as secretary general of the Socialists. Well, given that Ábalos's trial is drawing near, and therefore the risk of flight is increasing, the Supreme Court could decide today that he be placed in pretrial detention. And what has Ábalos done? He has attacked Sánchez, saying on social media that "regarding the meeting between President Sánchez, Santos Cerdán, and Arnaldo Otegi in a hamlet To negotiate the motion of no confidence against Rajoy, I can only say what eyewitnesses told me, and that is that this meeting did take place." Ábalos wants to cause harm: to meet in a hamlet A Basque leader meeting with a former ETA member is an unforgivable stain on the image of the Spanish right. It is true that Bildu investigated Sánchez with their votes, but Otegi has denied the meeting, saying that "if anyone proves that the meeting took place, I pledge to the Basque people to resign."

Sánchez, a victim of friendly fire, will likely be unable to pass a budget for the entire legislative term.surrounded by corruption casesHe intends to remain in power until 2027. I know we've grown tired of highlighting Sánchez's resilience, but now it's no longer resilience but strict survival to avoid becoming more vulnerable to justice (what I told you many months ago has come true: it's not that they want to oust him, but that they want him for two years). Unless he has people around him who care about him, like Salvador Illa, who tell him to stay put, given what might eventually happen.

Meanwhile, today, in the Parliament of the Valencian Country, the investiture debate of Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, which must replace MazónOnly Vox will vote for him, but Vox hasn't yet announced their intentions. This means the candidate for president of the Generalitat will deliver a speech that will appeal to Vox, while Vox wants it to sound utterly despicable.

Speaking of the absence of the most basic decency, Juan Carlos says that He has no regrets about anything and has no remorse for his behaviorHe was interviewed yesterday on a French channel, and his message was something like, "I am what brought democracy, and if I did anything reprehensible, it's in the past and has already been cleared up."

And when I talk about a cesspool, of course, I'm also referring to the judge who presided over the trial of the Attorney General. When nothing was yet known about the verdict, he went to give a course at the Madrid Bar Association (which had filed a private prosecution against the Attorney General), and when the class ended, he told the students, "I'm going to draft the sentence for the Attorney General," which was met with applause. By saying this, he broke the secrecy of the deliberations and the confidentiality regarding whether there would be an acquittal or a conviction, because if he drafted it, it was already known that the supporters of the conviction would win; otherwise, he wouldn't have been the one to write it.

A dung heap, with Catalan political life gone, subsumed in the sea of autonomy.

Good morning.