Spanish politics is bogged down, who will unbog it? It will certainly not be Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP, which fails to present itself as a governing alternative that convinces anyone, except the PP itself and the only interlocutor and partner it has left, Vox. The situation of the Spanish government oscillates between anxiety and shock, according to the news of each day, each week, and each month. Pedro Sánchez seems determined not to call early elections, or to resist doing so as much as possible, and one can doubt whether this attitude is due to firmness, calculation, or mere stubbornness. But Feijóo is not, in any case, a leader who presents himself with a response capable of generating enthusiasm in the face of the government's wear and tear. For a long time now, his only opposition task has consisted of directing exhortations to Sánchez's investiture partners. Sometimes he blames them, other times he insults them, much less often he hints at wanting to convince them (I won't say seduce them, so as not to sound sarcastic). To Junts and the PNB, in particular, he begs and begs again, like a mendicant friar of politics, to let him have their votes to carry out a motion of no confidence, even an instrumental motion, pretending to sideline Vox. Even so, he does not manage to get the Catalan or Basque right to give him their support. Not because Junts and PNB are particularly satisfied with Sánchez and his government (especially Junts, gripped by a conceptual discomfort that leads it to engage in the gesticulations that everyone already knows), but because they know that the Spanish right's proposal is no acceptable alternative. They know that, however bad the current situation is, the other is objectively worse. With a PP that openly says it is willing to govern with Vox (what else?), and with the demonstrated influence of the Spanish right over State powers such as the police and the judiciary, what may happen in the form of involution —and, if necessary, demolition— of Spanish democracy is easy to imagine and difficult to digest. It is also obvious that the first to suffer the consequences would be the Basques and the Catalans. Very mainly the Catalans.The distrust of Junts and PNB towards the PP also has to do, paradoxically if you will, with what has served the popular party to put Sánchez's government on the ropes: the judicialization of politics. At the beginning of the current legislature, the PP fell into the maneuver of labeling the left-wing government as "illegitimate" — no small matter — and Feijóo predicted a "calvary" for Sánchez that has been becoming a reality in chapters. The harmony between the PP and the patriotic justice is more than evident, and this causes the stalemate to be not only of the government, but of the institutional system. To dislodge the PSOE from power and access it themselves, they have literally perverted the rule of law: this is how they have gained positions and worn down Sánchez, yes, but they have also cornered themselves. Feijóo is six votes short of bringing down Sánchez, only six. And he doesn't get them. He can only beg for them.
