The discussion of Feijóo’s appointment had been requested of the king (by the way, with all his rights) not to achieve his institutional goal, which was an impossible thing, but to turn it into a preemptive motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez, who had real opportunities. To reaffirm the presidency after the PP leader’s attempt failed. From the beginning, Feijóo clung to a false thesis that would ruin his story: He said he had the support to get the investment but was not willing to use it at an unacceptable price. In fact, the PNV and the Junts are conservative formations and one would think that in a traditional auction they would prefer to ally with the right rather than the left… But as the PNV said to Feijóo’s face yesterday, “the claims that reject this Presidency are not true: VOX to add our votes You have to subtract 33.” In short, such an alliance of the PP with the nationalists is impossible as long as the party-state maintains its relationship with the extreme right of VOX… And no one can think that VOX, which denies the Autonomy State, will agree to this alliance and become part of the coalition with the independents.
After this provocative thesis, which fell under its own weight, Feijóo built a building that, as usual in parliamentarism, suffers from great weakness in its mainstays of facts and figures. The candidate gave incorrect values when talking about employment, unemployment, salaries, pensions, GDP, poverty… He even added that inequality is increasing in Spain, where the GINI index that measures this is international and visible. To anyone searching on Google: Inequality in Spain has decreased in recent years. They also focused on ideas such as punishing “democratic disloyalty”… Oscar PuenteThe rude former mayor of Valladolid, who came to meet him – “a winner, a winner” – gave a very easy answer: Perhaps this was a crime designed for his supporter, the leader of a party that refused to renew the contract. The 5-year General Assembly of the party is undoubtedly a constitutional “disloyalty” of the judiciary. Puente showed no mercy: he confronted Feijóo with all his mistakes and sins, and the wound inflicted is likely to have a much greater impact on Genoa than Carrera de San Jerónimo. Feijóo’s leadership declined at a time when Galicia’s undoubted intention was to strengthen him.
The dismissal of Feijóo (which, if there are no surprises, will be confirmed in the second vote tomorrow) will open the way for Sánchez, who will have to overcome the final hurdles to reaffirm himself, which will allow him to fulfill the European presidency more intensively. last quarter. But perhaps this initial investment did not turn out to be a failed exercise: there are lessons to be learned from this unusual sight.
The first lesson is that the real political debate at the moment is neither social nor ideological, but regional. In 1975, in that unstable Chapter VIII of the Constitution. We inherited a serious problem that we wanted to overcome with the article; this suggested that we would be moving towards an anonymous pseudo-feralism that today has serious problems in terms of both authority and funding. Perhaps the problem is chronic fiscal inefficiency rather than sovereignty. And the crisis will not resolve itself: it requires deep reforms, this time federal or confederal, to consolidate a stable model of co-government and financing, including reform of the Senate, and this cannot be achieved by some people. Minimum consensus was not achieved.
The second lesson is that the state of Spanish politics is disturbingly brutal and barbaric. It is already known that political relations in democracy are dry, harsh, cold and often hostile, but perhaps we have exceeded certain limits here. Insults such as the bloodless dagger, which has become an unhealthy habit in Congress, are unnecessary and harmful and do not extend the healthy pedagogy to which citizenship should be aspired. This is not about highlighting the Florentine spirit, which no one can understand at this point, but our representatives will need to strive to maintain a minimally courteous relationship without insults. A relationship that even allows us to agree on specific issues that respond to the general interest.