Van Gaal sees the press of the tension

The arithmetic forces the PP to make a pact with Vox and, therefore, to assume part of their program and ideology. The conservative press tries to defuse the notion that this constitutes a somewhat humiliating act of submission –they, who precisely have this verb always at their fingertips– and that is why one comes across headlines like Wednesday's in la Razón: “Imminent pact in Aragon with «national priority» and no change in immigration”. Meanwhile, El País squeezes Feijóo and company's dangerous friendships as much as possible and opens its front page with “The PP assumes Vox's idea of «national priority»”. In the initial paragraph, they explain that this principle “points to the discrimination of foreigners”. The drama of it all is that the reader who does their homework and informs themselves from more than one medium with non-coinciding editorial lines ends up confused and not quite knowing whether the popular party has indeed succumbed to xenophobic policies or if it is Vox who has settled for a semantic gesture –this unsettling thing of national priority– devoid of content because what counts is rootedness, regardless of origin. Polarization is a close cousin of confusion. And a twin of disaffection.

This impossibility of knowing if we are being taken for a ride was evident with another double play of contradictory headlines on today's front pages. El Mundo: “Sánchez washes his hands of it with a housing plan without support or budget”. On the other hand, the subtitle of El Periódico informs that “[The executive] plans to invest 7,000 million in new flats, aid, and rehabilitation”. It will be necessary to scrutinize whether they really release the money they promise or if they do the classic sinpa, also known as “budget execution in Catalonia”. But there are newspapers that systematically apply the bandage before the wound and explain any social improvement announced by the enemy to be defeated by applying Van Gaal's doctrine of always negative.

siempre negativo.