PP and Junts: a question of political tradition

Junts' response to the PP's proposal (to have their support to move forward with a presidential motion of censure, with an early election call and without Vox in the mix and blah, blah), was to ask them to go and propose it to Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo. This has generated all sorts of jokes, and rightly so, because the answer is witty. Politicians have learned to imitate their imitators, and the idea of Feijóo —or Miguel Tellado, or Cuca Gamarra— going to Brussels to beg for Puigdemont's support generates in the minds of many a possible gag from "Polònia". Especially after having spent eight years pointing to Puigdemont as the worst criminal in the history of Spain (some inflated writer has recently said that the Catalan Process was even more dangerous, "in a certain sense", than fascism. These kinds of absurdities are products of a state of opinion generated mainly by the PP and its judicial, police, media, and digital confluences). It would be a fun scene, certainly. But above all, it is an unfeasible scene, which we will not see.Why? Mainly because of the PP's own trajectory in these last eight years, which has led them to tie their future to that of Vox, and to no one else. They have no other interlocutors, not even among parties like Junts or the PNB, traditionally called “nationalists” (apparently the PP isn't one, nationalist-wise) but with whom they supposedly share liberal, conservative, or center-right ideology. The problem, however, is that the PP has never properly been part of the liberal tradition, and the current drift only confirms this. The tradition to which the PP belongs is that of the ancestral Spanish authoritarian right, that of the lords, the bosses, the military pronouncements, and the coups d'etat. They come from there, not from reading Adam Smith and John Locke.Be that as it may, what prevents Feijóo from going to Waterloo is not the 155: the PSOE also supported it, and even so Santos Cerdán, and also Zapatero, were correctly received there, political agreements were reached, etc. The problem, therefore, is not that Puigdemont closes the door of Waterloo, but that the PP has no way to call him without seeming like the wolf from the Three Little Pigs in front of the house. Something equivalent happens to him with the PNB. The reason is that everyone knows that the PP cannot do without Vox to make Feijóo president (or any other candidate he might present), and everyone also knows what a setback this would mean in all areas of an already too fragile and rotten democracy. On the other hand, there is a reason that the journalist Carlos Alsina made explicit a few days ago — a journalist of a conservative and unionist, but honest, editorial line — when saying goodbye as presenter of the news segment of the morning program of Onda Cero: “Not helping to bring to government someone who has not been able to reach it by himself”. Another very old behavior of the political tradition from which the PP comes is to win by force, or by cheating.