Sánchez exhausted and exhausting legislature

A question like this should be able to be debated, even if it were a debate that brought us nothing new, because here we are in a stalemate of impotence: Pedro Sánchez, who cannot approve budgets, and Feijóo, who cannot win a motion of no confidence

17/06/2026
2 min

It is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero entering the National CourtIt is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero entering the National Court to testify in the investigative phase, accused of half a dozen crimes. One of the mysteries to be resolved is where the famous jewels came from. The PSOE is holding its breath, but Zapatero has the absolute support of Sánchez, who trusts in his innocence. Some of the damage is already done, because no matter how much justice looks to the right, not everything can be invented, and influence peddling, favors, and gifts go against everything the left preaches. Almost at the same time that Zapatero was making history, Pedro Sánchez entered Congress without a tie (it's hot) at the control session of the Spanish government. Feijóo has told him everything:Feijóo: “Tomorrow we will not have the right to vote here for the continuation of the legislature, because you are a coward. You are afraid of democracy. That's all we needed, Mr. Sánchez. It's not just that you don't want us to vote in a ballot box, but, moreover, you don't want us to vote in Congress. You have no right to muzzle Parliament. You are not a democrat. Mr. Sánchez, if I were a bad person, I would only tell you one thing. Cheer up, Pedro. Thank you very much, madam/sir”.Feijóo complains because the PP, Junts and Vox agreed to submit a request to Congress to debate who wants and who does not want early elections. And the Congress board vetoed the debate, arguing that the dissolution of the Courts is the president's responsibility, and the president has already said he does not intend to advance them. Well, we already knew that it is the president's responsibility. But it should be possible to debate a question like this, even if it were a debate that brought us nothing new, because here we are in a stalemate of impotence: Pedro Sánchez, who cannot approve budgets, and Feijóo, who cannot win a vote of no confidence. And everything seems to indicate that we will be like this until July next year. Listen, if not, to the answer that Sánchez gave him:Sánchez: “The elections will be held, sir. They will be held! But that is not the question. The question is what country will present itself in 2027 compared to 2018. If it is a better country or a worse country. And undoubtedly, Mr. Feijóo, it is a better country in terms of growth, employment, and inequality”.Meanwhile, in Catalan politics, yesterday we had a significant episode of government miscoordination. The Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, said on Catalunya Ràdio that the plan to place police officers in high schools was “in a state of paralysis”.Well, around midday, the spokesperson counselor, Sílvia Paneque, corrected Parlon and said that “the program continues as planned”. It is clear that the Government does not want to rectify, that it wants police officers in the institutes, but that right now the main problem of the institutes is the teachers' strike, not the presence of police, and the executive has other work to do.  Good morning.

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