Demand explanations

We don't know when we'll know the technical causes of the blackout; we've seen the political consequences from the very beginning. The PP undoubtedly has the authority to demand immediate explanations from Sánchez, because when they've governed, they've never lacked explanations for important events. Thus, many of us still remember Rajoy's pedagogy and the plasticine steaks during the crisis. PrestigeWhen Spain entered an illegal war against Iraq, Aznar emphatically demanded that we believe him, that that country possessed weapons of mass destruction that had to be intercepted. ETA committed. When the relatives of the soldiers killed in the Yak-42 tragedy asked for the repatriation of the bodies, they were promptly responded to: pieces of corpses were collected and transported to Spain, all mixed up on television and public schools. Recently, when Ayuso was criticized for her anti-COVID protocols (known as the protocols of shame) causing the deaths of 7,241 elderly people in Madrid nursing homes, she also had an explanation: they would have died in a way that citizens would not. Perhaps it can be made clear to them that misinformation, a word that now peppers They use it left and right, it's not about not giving explanations, but about giving them knowing that they are false.

On the other hand, it is a good time to remember the privatization policies of the electricity sector that were also enthusiastically promoted by the PP governments at the time. The Minister of Industry and Energy under Rajoy, José Manuel Soria, stood out, who turned out to be an important name on the lists of the Panama Papers, and before that the aforementioned José María Aznar, who to this day remains an external advisor for Latin America at Endesa, the company that was privatized during his presidency. It's a good time to remember that Red Eléctrica Española is also a private company, and that this Monday, when crowds of tourists wandered like lost souls through the streets of unlit cities, and everyone was crossing their fingers, hoping it wouldn't be the worst, what remained functioning were public services: schools and hospitals. And the media. The things that don't fail, or that, when they fail, mean we're truly screwed. In Monday's Iberian pana, two lines of investigation were emerging from the outset: the glamorous one of a digital cyberattack, or the stale and more common one of the chaos of apathy and neglect, as the tango goes. Everything indicates that the tango won. In the meantime, it's good and opportune for the opposition to demand explanations from the government, of course. It's a shame, though, that we've known each other for so long.