Political deadlock, social emergency

Together, they want to project strength due to pressure from their mayors in the face of the electoral threat from Aliança Catalana, and have therefore already warned the Spanish government how they will vote. All of this brings us back to the concept of a deadlock and the division of Catalonia and Spain into two separate countries, without a budget, amidst numerous social needs.

26/02/2026
2 min

We'll finish this now. immersion in the 23-F which has been going on for days, not without highlighting the irony of fate that it means Tejero died yesterdayPrecisely. Today is the day of reckoning (the final tally). Winners: Pedro Sánchez, who, by declassifying these documents, has steered the political conversation for almost a week and it's worked out brilliantly for him. Winner: Juan Carlos de Borbón, who appears as someone who stopped the coup, with two very large asterisks: they haven't declassified the conversations the king had on the afternoon of the coup with the various captains general of the military regions, and therefore we don't know if he was testing them out; and second, we'll never know if in the days before the king hinted that he would be willing to support what was called "a change of course." Otherwise, nothing new, beyond rubbing our eyes at the fact that a diagram, a schematic that looks like something a primary school student would draw, showing several possible coups, has been kept confidential.

But beyond this glut, this cloying excess of February 23rd, today we have the continuation of two deadlocks, in Catalonia and in Spain. In Catalonia, because there's no new development in the power struggle between the PSC and Esquerra over the budget approval, other than that, after Junqueras' warning in Illa not to pick fights he can't win, Illa will send the budget to the Catalan Parliament tomorrow, telling Junqueras that he's not in a position to win much either, among other things because he's disqualified from holding public office, and as

It is in his best interest not to shake up Pedro Sánchez too much, who in turn does not want to talk about the management of the IRPF in Catalonia because now they are selling elections, first in Castilla y León and then in Andalusia, probably in mid-June (they have not yet been called).

And the other blockade is in Spain, where today Junts will vote alongside the PP and VOX against the extension of the so-called social shield Because it maintains the eviction moratorium, which Junts had requested be separated from the text so as not to incentivize employment. Junts wants to project strength due to pressure from its mayors in the face of the electoral threat from Aliança Catalana and, therefore, has already warned the Spanish government how it will vote. All of this returns us to the concept of gridlock and two separate countries, Catalonia and Spain, without a budget, amidst numerous social needs.

Good morning.

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