Javier Cercas asks Sánchez to commit hara-kiri

This Tuesday The Country It included a gift for Pedro Sánchez: a beautiful wakizashi, the traditional Japanese short-bladed sword, ideal for slicing open the abdomen and causing a death as honorable as it was spectacular. That's how Javier Cercas's article should have been read, in which he called for the Spanish prime minister to resign because he had lost the social majority that supported him. However, he didn't specify what mechanism for evaluating social majorities he applied. Was it perhaps the media hype surrounding articles in the press that he finds hostile, starting with that very column? Cercas considered it absurd that Sánchez would offer the argument of keeping the far right at bay as a pretext for clinging to office. According to him, "the far right is already participating in the government" because "the Process transformed [Juntos] into a far-right party." And he downplays the fear of a PP landing by recalling that in Europe, 70% of decisions are made by the Popular Party (PP) together with the Socialists. In other words, let everything change so that nothing changes, which has been the old doctrine of the two-party system since the Transition. In any case, the defining phrase of the writer's ideological reframing was: "I am left-wing because I aspire for Spain to be a southern Norway, with sun and tapas."

That said, Cercas' article has a twist plot I hadn't seen it coming. Despite the initial solemn invocation to democracy, the solution proposed isn't through the ballot box, but through a resignation that would allow for the appointment of a replacement president from within the party's own ranks. Aha, all very democratic, and long live the social majority. I imagine García Page or Lambán experienced a notable climax upon reading the article and have started stockpiling funds in preparation for moving to the Moncloa Palace. What the heck, let Felipe González come back, straight away, and we'll be spared all this nonsense.