Rufián and the anti-Vox solution

The week begins under the shadow of two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The bad one? Train drivers' strikeThe good news? The AP-7 motorway reopened this morning after being closed for three weeks. All three lanes between Martorell and Gelida are now open in the direction of Tarragona.

We have three days of train drivers' strikes ahead of us, with little regard for minimum services, meaning everyone will be stuck in cars. The drivers say they are striking for their own safety and ours, but they have refused to be transferred from the Generalitat, an administration that has proven it knows how to manage trains through the simple procedure of investing.

Results of the elections in AragonThe PP won, but lost two seats; Vox doubled its result, and the PSOE sank to its lowest point in history. Now let's assess this. And the assessment depends on expectations. The PP called early elections to inflict a severe defeat on the Socialists, and it succeeded in that, but also to avoid depending on votes. And in this, it has failed. Vox is now twice as strong in Aragon as it was before. A bad move. And this is the second time it has happened to them. Just over a month ago, on the eve of Christmas, the president of Extremadura made the same move, and it's now February, and she still hasn't managed to form a government because Vox is putting pressure on her.

The problem with these regional elections is that they've been called against Pedro Sánchez. Listen to how the PP candidate, Azcón, celebrated yesterday: "From Aragon, we say loud and clear: 'Tick-tock, tick-tock. Sanchismo is over, Sanchismo is over!'"

And it turns out that more and more Spaniards are saying that to truly oppose Pedro Sánchez, you have to vote for Vox; not the PP, and certainly not Feijóo's, because it's too weak. If it were Ayuso, maybe. The vote against Sánchez, the "Sánchez, I like fruit" vote, goes to Vox, except in Madrid, where they have the original. The vote against the amnesty, against the pardons, against the pacts with Esquerra or Junts, against the fact that Puigdemont ended up making Sánchez president; in other words, the age-old anti-Catalan vote that continues to be a major electoral driver in Spain. This, plus the anti-immigration vote. This is also what the polls say will happen in Catalonia with Aliança Catalana. They are the ones who deny climate change and serve the ultra-rich who want to lower taxes. It's the far-right vote that we've already seen returning to Europe and which has its great global stronghold in the United States in Donald Trump, a Trump who saw that Bad Bunny performed the Super Bowl halftime show this morning entirely in Spanish and He said the break has been "the worst in history," a slap in the face for our country. of which "nobody has understood a single word."

There is someone who is moving against this rise of the far right, and that is Gabriel Rufián, very much in line with the conscience of the Spanish left, which has been demonstrating its views in Congress for some time now, more so than with that of the Catalan independence movement. The leader of the Left in Madrid has long desired a united Spanish left-wing bloc for the general elections and will hold an event in Madrid next week. Bildu, the Basque branch of Esquerra, has already told Rufián not to count on them."Our project, EH Bildu, is and will be a project by and for our country: Euskal Herria and its people." Junqueras doesn't want that front either. We'll see who will want him, because parties are very protective of their spaces and interests, even though, now, he's really coming for the wolf.

Good morning.