The stale Madrid atmosphere and Feijóo's incongruity

Spanish politics has long since become a swampy pond where civilized debate is impossible, and insults and the exchange of extremely serious accusations are our daily bread. Alleged corruption schemes pile up on top of one another until it's no longer possible to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, and you need a GPS to find your way around. Madrid has always been the city of dossiers and audio recordings, of conspiracies and shady maneuvers, but now the atmosphere has truly become stifling, and the headlines of the media outlets based there are often indecipherable for the average person.

And in this stale and rarefied atmosphere, there is one figure who seems completely out of place: the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Just as Isabel Díaz Ayuso is at home in the water, Feijóo can't quite find his tone or his political line. This Thursday, without going any further, he insisted on calling the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, "hood"of an alleged mafia following videos that implicate a socialist activist in an alleged plot to discredit the UCO, the Civil Guard unit that Begoña Gómez is investigating.

Well, if he truly believed what he says, Feijóo should be consistent and present a motion of censure, even if he loses, because it would be the only possible response, almost out of institutional responsibility. However, lacking the votes or arguments to convince anyone beyond Vox, Feijóo has decided to call a demonstration in Madrid on Sunday, June 8, in other words, exactly the same thing he did against the amnesty, with a modest result. Feijóo chooses to stir up trouble in the streets instead of assuming his responsibility, which is to offer Congress an alternative and confront Sánchez head-on. Could it be because he knows that the PP also has hidden agendas, such as the alleged tax fraud of Ayuso's partner or the recent imprisonment of Jorge Fernández Díaz's former deputy in the Interior Ministry? Not to mention the maneuvers by the Valencian PP to discredit the judge investigating the DANA and Mazón's shameful continuation in office.

The PP simply applies the template of the "Go away, Mr. Gonzalez!" of José María Aznar, that of the strategy of tension fueled by the editorial offices of certain media outlets that conspired between 1993 and 1996 to overthrow the socialist government. The difference is that Aznar had no one on his right and was an undisputed leader, while Feijóo has Vox outside and Ayuso inside him. It is about burying Sanchismo and, as Abascal says, imprisoning the Spanish president

Is this what Feijóo wants? swallowed up.