That Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE (and, therefore, the Spanish coalition government) have a problem is, at this point, beyond doubt. The nature and scope of that problem is another matter. To put it mildly, the fact that someone like Ábalos could be involved in a plot torrentian (from Torrente, of course) wasn't a fact that could surprise anyone, and perhaps that had to do with the fact that the PSOE itself suspended him from office and membership as soon as accusations against him surfaced. That someone like Santos Cerdán (such an executive, such a negotiator, so trustworthy) could be/is in power is something new. In any case, the PSOE is what's called a systemic party, and that, in Spain (and in Catalonia, and the Balearic Islands) means entering into this dynamic of opaque financing, favors owed, and personal ambitions that, to put it briefly, we call corruption.
At the same time, there are other facts that also can't be doubted. At the time of writing this, everyone is still talking about an audio recording in which Santos Cerdán and that third-rate soap opera-like character (which is what Spanish politics often seems to be) known as Koldo García are supposedly heard. But, for the moment, no one has heard the audio recording yet. However, this very week we were able to clearly hear another, older audio recording, in which the commissioner and former torturer Villarejo told the then president of the Catalan PP, Alicia Sánchez Camacho, that the patriotic police would carry out Operation Catalunya with the aim of causing harm. "This war is because these uncles "don't get an absolute majority," the corrupt policeman said to the leader of dubious credibility. Thirteen years after those words, what is absolute is the democratic scandal they represent.
They are good as a reminder, however, that certain powers in the Spanish state find it harder to form governments and impose conditions. to say it, for the good of the country, an abstract concept that coincidentally usually coincides with their political and economic interests. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me, Mark Twain is said to have said. that they can't stand my existence, among other things because it holds up on the left, the Basques, and the Catalans; they are capable of literally (we emphasize literally) anything.
