Feijóo and Rufián raise the tone

Almost all the analysis space is occupied by the noise of Spanish politics, a noise that has two fundamental emitters. The first is corruption close to the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez (Ábalos, Koldo, Cerdán), which adds a new indicted person:

The president of the State Industrial Participations Company (SEPI), Belén Gualda, who according to the Prosecutor's Office allegedly engaged in criminal dealings related to Leire Díez. The second, and since Sánchez does not intend to back down, comes from the Spanish right and far-right, who have definitively crossed a line that until now they had only dared to touch, which is to blame the electoral system for part of their misfortune of not being able to govern since 2018. Vox already distrusted postal voting, and now Feijóo is asking for an extra 50 deputies for the party that wins the elections, so that in this way it will be easier for them to add votes for the investiture.

Feijóo let it slip in an interview with Jiménez Losantos – he didn't have the idea very polished – after being directly asked about ways to prevent "minority groups from having overrepresentation" in the State. Feijóo overlooked the fact that these extra deputies cannot be granted without reforming the Constitution, as we explain on this page, with the assessment that constitutional experts give us.

Feijóo's response is doubly dangerous, first because he has already installed Spanish politics in the discussion of the rules of the game, as if he were the victim of bad refereeing and not of the fact that his discourse, his agreements with Vox, and the evident fact that he lives overshadowed by the shadow of Ayuso and Aznar are holding back half of Spain. And it is dangerous for Catalans and Basques, still with their own party system, who, now that they have made Sánchez president and do not give Feijóo the votes for a motion of censure, it turns out that the arithmetic influence they have in Congress must be reduced. It is an old refrain that now returns with more force and is more dangerous, because Donald Trump's finger has shown them the way, and once you cast doubt on the votes or the system, the delegitimization of the adversary and democratic institutions is an irreversible fact. But while the PSOE defends itself locked in its castle and the PP does not know how to assault it, Catalan politics lives off the same ailment of this Spanish blockade. The still leader of Esquerra in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, also does not like the reality he sees and blames those who explain reality, “the 90% of the Catalan press” –he has also pointed the finger at it–, which he accuses of giving too many minutes to Junts' proposal to seek a socialist president alternative to Sánchez.

It's a classic, some denounce the electoral system and others complain about the press coverage. Everyone joins in, the right, the left, and those who claim to be here to regenerate the left. Good morning.