Sánchez fights for his personal survival
From the conversations between those who can do something about it, it emerges that the blessing of the tower of Jesus Christ will be in Catalan and in Spanish. And that tomorrow a welcome text to Leo XIV will be published in two Italian newspapers and two Spanish newspapers, which will bear the signature of five presidents of the Generalitat and five presidents of the Parliament. And from Barça, among other personalities and institutions. A text without controversy, in a positive light, which will explain to the Pope that he will come to a country called Catalonia.
Today I was talking to an important businessman, very well politically connected, who these days has attended the Cercle d’Economia conference and who the day before yesterday heard Feijóo and yesterday heard Sánchez and he told me that both interventions had seemed to him like something to cry about.Feijóo's by weak, by mediated by Aznar and Ayuso, without his own thought, without knowing how to oppose Sánchez nor, much less, generate enthusiasm.And regarding Sánchez, it was said that, although he knows how to navigate better and speaks to a Catalan audience in terms that are understood here and are even accepted much better than Feijóo's, he is a politician who now only lives for his political survival. Is it because he is hooked on power? Not only that: because he knows that the day he ceases to be president, he has a high chance of ending up prosecuted and in prison. And so, as an exercise in survival, we must understand the incredible announcement that he will present budgets for 2027. Has he not been able to approve this year's budget, and before the elections, will he have the votes to push through the accounts? Sánchez is the first to know that it doesn't sound credible at all. Now, he has a great ability to turn things around. You already know that he, who before an election promised that he would bring Puigdemont arrested, approved pardons after the elections. And yesterday he said that amnesty was good... for the PP!Pedro Sánchez: “Although it may seem unbelievable, there is explicit recognition from the head of the opposition and the People's Party to a political actor, in this case Junts per Catalunya, whom they did not recognize until very recently. I think this is good news. Truly, I don't say this as a provocation. Because, effectively, the pardons, the measures of grace, and also this amnesty law, aim to recover something that one of the main analysts of La Vanguardia said at the time, after the amnesty: “We are all here now”. Well, I think this is a very important point to make our democracy a much stronger system and, why not?, in a future where the Spanish right can once again find common ground, in terms of political understanding, with the Catalan right and also with the Basque right”.As a theory it has its logic. In the real world, it doesn't work. The PP knows that an understanding with Junts would boost Vox's vote. Apart from the fact that the PP lives and has lived by going against the amnesty.But the most amazing thing, this businessman told me, is that all this, Sánchez was saying it just when it became known that the Civil Guard had concluded that Santos Cerdán and Leire Díez wanted to protect Sánchez's interests and they set up a plot to influence legal cases that had been opened against the PSOE. In other words, Cerdán would be the leader of a plot to save Sánchez, which has led Feijóo to say that the PSOE will end up convicted of criminal organization.This is all a disaster. It has splashed the PSC, and that is why yesterday President Illa said in the control session of the Parliament that his party is the PSC (not the PSOE).Look, all this mess holds up because Spain's big economic figures hold up, the level of tax collection is historic (that's why we can afford to have the price of gasoline subsidized) but never let the economy falter, this will be a social disaster (there is already a lot of poverty). And so here we are, hoping the Pope comes, for the World Cup and holidays to start. Speaking of the Pope, I am aware that from the conversations among those who can do something about it, it is understood that the blessing of the Jesus Christ tower will be in Catalan and Spanish. And that tomorrow a welcome text to Leo XIV will be published in two Italian newspapers and two Spanish newspapers, signed by five presidents of the Generalitat and five presidents of the Parliament. And by Barça, among other personalities and institutions. A text without controversy, positive, which will explain to the Pope that he will come to a country called Catalonia.
Good morning.
