From mud to dandruff

To gauge the temperature of the Spanish right after Mazón's slow-motion resignation, a good barometer is to look at what the columnists in the moderate center-right newspapers are writing. They are busy dissecting Mazón's virility, the lack of testosterone that, in their opinion, is to blame for his disgraceful behavior. They write things like feminine, Poor man, great man, the blonde from El Ventorro either I like many menDo they really think that writing these things makes them provocateurs, facing the windmill they call thought? wokeThey see themselves as brave and politically incorrect. They are here, and they will never leave.

Perhaps because they are so macho, the members of parliament from the People's Party (PP) and Vox who were present during the appearance of the spokespeople for the victims of the DANA storm before the congressional committee refrained from applauding them and from showing the slightest sign of cordiality—let alone empathy—towards them. This is the corollary of the official narrative that has been imposed on the PP, which consists of portraying Mazón as a victim of victims' associations that committed the "cruelty" (that's the word they use) of booing him and calling him a murderer. From Feijóo to the vice president of the Valencian Council, Susana Camarero, and including the opinion leaders of the nationalist right, they all sing the same tune: Mazón has had to endure a vicious witch hunt for a year, etc. The accusations against victims' associations of being "politicized" and seeking personal gain at the expense of the tragedy (as was done with the victims of 11-M or those of the Valencia metro, or as is being done right now with the women who suffer the consequences of the mess in cancer screening tests).

A pair of top-tier alpha males, Feijóo and Abascal, They were called This Tuesday, the process begins to decide who should replace Mazón as president of the Valencian Generalitat. That this decision is being made by a failed leader and a neo-Francoist, strictly adhering to their party interests and with a complete lack of understanding of the Valencian Country's reality, is an expression of a total absence of democratic principles. The law doesn't require it, but on an occasion like this, given the gravity of the situation and the anomaly of the year Mazón has spent shamefully entrenched in office, it was obvious that the appropriate course of action was to call the citizens to the polls. Any attempt to force Feijóo to his knees before an emboldened Abascal will be a mockery of the Valencian Country's self-governing institutions and of its citizens' right to decide who they want to govern from now on.

The last of the day's petty figures was Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who boasted of his dirty political tactics before the Supreme Court, with the arrogance of someone convinced he's untouchable. A year later, a torrent of filth and sewage is overflowing from the sewers of Spanish politics. And it's on the right where the most turmoil is taking place.