On Friday, the Conference of Regional Presidents was overshadowed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso's disdain for the state's co-official languages. Some media outlets emphasized the Madrid president's conflictive attitude. Cuatro, for example, summed up the headline with "Isabel Díaz Ayuso attempts to disrupt the Conference of Regional Presidents". They also defined his conduct as "a snub to the Catalan and Basque president". To illustrate the context of this situation, they included Salvador Illa's comment in which he spoke of the richness of the country's languages: "Understanding this is understanding Spain," and they described it as "a real dig at Ayuso".

The legislature has reached a point of degradation beyond return. But this is a mistake. The exercise of opposition and control of the government should be compatible with dialogue and a willingness to reach agreements for the benefit of the community. And this is not the case. All ships have been burned and all bridges demolished. All that remains is the permanent electoral campaign and the environmental outcry. We will pay for it. In many respects, with the degradation of the system and a widespread loss of confidence in the parties and their leaders. The alternation in power should not follow the pattern of the previous destruction of the adversary. But experience and political practice show that over these decades of democracy in Spain, the conviction has taken root that prosperity and change of cycle are only achieved through scorched-earth policies.

This Friday's Conference of Presidents in Barcelona will not go down in history precisely for its usefulness. It is a format that can only work if there is a minimum of institutional loyalty and political will to reach cross-party agreements, two ingredients that have completely disappeared from the Spanish political landscape today. The tension felt in Madrid has spread to Barcelona for a day, and the men The Popular Party, although they participated correctly, refused to sign any agreement and took the opportunity to call early elections for Pedro Sánchez, who has already made it clear that he intends to complete his term. In other words, the institutional deadlock between the Popular Party's autonomous communities and the Spanish government will continue to be the norm for the time being. A situation that only has a few losers: the citizens of those territories.

This Friday, the Conference of Presidents is being held in Barcelona. The meeting took place amid high tension between the executive branch of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and the People's Party (PP), which called for early elections. Tensions loomed over the meeting: a tense moment erupted from the very beginning. between the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and Mónica García, Minister of HealthAyuso also gave the note in the middle of the meeting, when has decided to leave the room after Catalan and Basque were spoken. He had previously starred in a tense handshake with the President of the Generalitat and host of the meeting, Salvador Illa.

The PP is a hostile party in the Catalan language, and in 2025 we should hear things like "If they speak in Catalan, I'll get up and leave" (Ayuso, Madrid) or "It's a bit ridiculous" the use of headphones (Moreno Bonilla, Andalusia). The language is that Isla and Ayuso normally meet. But when Isla acts as president and Ayuso acts as president, they are showing off the public representation, he of a country with its own language and she of an autonomous community.

The PP will have a narrative problem next weekend. On Sunday, it will demonstrate in Madrid under the slogan "Mafia or democracy," but on Friday, its main leaders will meet in Barcelona with the hood of that supposed mafia, Pedro Sánchez. It is true that they have managed to impose their points on the agenda, but this was not the objective of the maneuver: what the men The Popular Party (PP) was an excuse to snub Sánchez and avoid having to take a photo with him. However, the snub also had a drawback: it also meant snubging the King of Spain.

Pedro Sánchez has lined up the pieces to go on holiday with a wave of positive news to try to instil optimism and hope to the second part of a mandate marked by the pandemic and fight back in the polls, most of which now give a victory to Pablo Casado's PP. Despite the fifth wave and the increase in deaths in places like Catalonia, Moncloa wants to convey that we are already at the end of the coronavirus crisis. Right now he is backed by the latest data from the labour force survey, which indicates that the creation of jobs -especially among young people- has jumped back; the increase of up to 2.8% in GDP in the second quarter of the year and the "gold medal in vaccination", in Sánchez's own words on Thursday, after having overtaken the United Kingdom in the percentage of fully vaccinated population: almost 56%.