Lazy arguments
Laziness is worse than a lack of talent, and in the case of the president of Madrid, it's unclear which of the two is her greatest virtue. The fact is that for one reason, another, or both, coupled with her shamelessness, the president of the Community of Madrid has begun to lose ground within the PP.
Her time in Barcelona has made it clear that she will never be Feijóo's replacement when it comes. It won't be because of the lack of political intelligence in her arguments within the PP. Ayuso has never been one for restraint, but her arguments against Catalan, Basque, and Galician are so lazy that they are unexportable beyond Callejón del Gato. According to the president of Madrid, using a language other than Spanish is to make people believe that "we are a plurinational state that we are not." "They want to make us feel like foreigners in our country," she said as she left. Apart from the mental limitation and bad faith that she demonstrates, Ayuso forgets that the territorial power of the PP is not in Genoa and that her colleagues do daily balancing acts in Galicia or Valencia and the Balearic Islands, where they speak Catalan and claim it – while agreeing with Vox on measures to leave it unprotected – in exchange for surviving.
Ayuso blew up the strategy of the PSOE, but also that of the PP, which wanted the headlines to be the request for elections by the barons and not the evidence of the unitary, homogenizing, and provincial model of the Spanish right. The supposed defenders of the Constitution are its main enemies.
The Pedralbes Conference of Presidents was a grand stage set for all attendees, each with their own interests and all with a very short-term vision. The PP and PSOE only aspire to clash until they arrive groggy at the next elections. Elections that will actually be decided by the results obtained by the fragmentation of parties to the left of the PSOE and the far right of the PP with Vox. They will be the ones who decide who can form a government. In the meantime, be patient with the brawl animated by the infoshow Madrid native.
The Barcelona meeting was a drama for everyone. The PSOE wanted the regional governments to form up militarily, utilizing the presence of the king, before the PP demonstration against the socialist "mafia." They can always counter the cries against Sánchez with the photograph of the barons popular in Barcelona with the boss of the boss. Objective achieved.
The PP made it clear it would boycott the meeting when it added a long list of issues to be discussed in an impossible timeframe and without any prior work. In fact, it matters little, because if the PSOE had wanted agreements, they would have worked seriously bilaterally, which is the only way to overcome Feijóo's boycott and think about the citizens.
A favor to Salvador Illa
He president Salvador Illa wanted to send the message that the Catalan independence process is history and that "normality" has returned to a Catalonia that is much calmer than Madrid. Ayuso's poor and provincial strategy has helped him, focusing him on the issue by comparison, while awaiting the great and impossible pending issue of regional financing, on which the Catalan president truly stakes the health of his government. When a tense Ayuso becomes Salvador Illa's nemesis, his popularity rises for Sánchez's succession with a peripheral candidate who still believes Spain can be federalized.
Relations between the PSOE and the PP are dominated by unproductivity and emotional disarray. The legislature is exhausted, though not over, and months of much gesticulation and uproar await us. Ayuso is increasingly nervous and eccentric, and it would be advisable for her to lower the temperature that has risen through insults and the stirring of the most primitive passions, but that cannot be counted on.
British phlegm isn't just a way of speaking or acting; it's an attitude toward life, a kind of defense against the chaos of the world. It's often a shield for those who prefer to laugh or ignore with style rather than lose their temper. It demands irony and intelligence to disarm adversaries, as well as serenity. It's as if Churchill said: "History will be kind to me, since I intend to write it." That won't be the case with Ayuso.