Feijóo concluded the announcement of the party congress he chairs bringing forward to July with a joke: "Now we'll move from the Pope's conclave to the PP Conclave." It's an anecdote, but since there will be people who are paid to write it, and people who will look at it twice before making him say it, it's indicative of the extent to which they think that in a society with brains softened by television and screens, you'll only be heard if you tell bad jokes. Or perhaps they think that's how they'll come across on comedy shows and in articles by columnists who are too vague, but I find it surprising to expose a presidential candidate who no longer has the reputation of being the funniest person at the party (far behind Rajoy) to a pun that not even the ChatGPT robot would have suggested.
Meanwhile, in the Spanish socialist government the problem is other phrases, those of the WhatsApp between Sánchez and Ábalos, which are making headlines thanks to a leak that the right suggests is the work of the clueless Ábalos and that the government thinks must be the work of the police in charge of protecting the contents of the conversations. In short, Sánchez spoke with Ábalos in confidence and said that Minister Robles was a "birdthat he had to sleep in his uniform.
Now, of course, the Spanish government announces it will take legal action if the leaked messages aren't investigated. Let it get in line and wait for some kind of case to be brought against it. When it comes to espionage, leaks of private conversations, and slovenliness in the chain of custody, Spain is a self-serving sieve.
