Sánchez doesn't miss a beat. He jumped at the first opportunity: no to the United States' demands to increase military spending to 5% of GDP. A message that resonates with a large part of his electorate, which gives some color to his battered profile and confirms that for now his agenda doesn't include the possibility of taking a step back. These are days of much noise and little decency. And the PP only makes noise, incapable of addressing this crisis with concrete initiatives that establish a profile: it limits itself to keeping the wheel turning to the rhythm of "hood Sánchez".
The Santos Cerdán case is no small feat. It is the emergence of systematic corruption by an organized group that had managed to establish itself at the heart of executive power: right next to the president of the government. Despite their way of being in the world, the truth is that a climate of impasse rather than rupture has been created. Which translates, in the general opinion, into a sort of frustration. an excuse that those in charge cannot allow. And the opposition is left waiting for it to fall on its own and with minimal effort on its part. Little: not a single sign that could give confidence that they would operate any other way. The result is a peculiar standby: as if everyone were waiting for some new revelation that would speed things up and take the job for granted. In this context, Sánchez is the one who still finds an opportunity to play his cards. Saying no to Trump's demands on his path to war allows him to demonstrate that he's still alive on a very sensitive issue for a large part of his potential electorate. A way of saying "I'm still here." At a time when a wait-and-see approach had been declared in case a decisive leak comes out.
What will happen? The feeling is that the public is on the lookout. That the right doesn't inspire enough confidence to speed things up. That Sánchez is wavering, and that public opinion is on tenterhooks. All of this generates a feeling of vertigo: who's in charge here? Does Sánchez intend to hold out until 2027 because he has nothing to hide, or is he holding his own to see how far the bomb delay lasts? Meanwhile, on the other side, they don't know how to take advantage of the leak and are waiting for it to widen on its own. What will be, will be. The neglect of both sides is a gift to the far right.
