To his many reasons for concern, Pedro Sánchez can add another: the Palma City Council has just declared him persona non grata in the city. It has been done by the governing majority, made up of the PP and Vox, and at the initiative –of course– of Abascal's party.

As we're about to begin a new political year, a certain end-of-term air is taking over the atmosphere. It's often said that August is a special month, with less activity and less significant events. But for a few years now, we've had many important developments in the midst of the heatwave. The clocks no longer stop, especially for public officials, not because vacations are overrated, as Feijóo said, but because certain responsibilities, particularly those of the Prime Minister, are extremely personal and non-delegable. Pedro Sánchez knows this perfectly well. He has demonstrated it on many occasions. It was made clear, for example, when he called the 2023 elections, with the vote in July and the constitutional ceremony of the Corts a few weeks later. His gamble paid off that time, but it will be very difficult to repeat, whether the next election is held sooner or if he waits until 2027, when the current term ends.