The PP mobilized hundreds of thousands of people across Spain this Sunday against the amnesty bill, which will enter Congress this week and which, together with a set of measures agreed between the PSOE and seven other parties, will allow the third investment of Pedro Sánchez. Logically, the impetus for this mobilization is political. When Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not receive the necessary votes for his candidacy bid, his party demands a rerun of the elections. Everything that has happened so far is legitimate: The candidate who wins the election is appointed by the King to try to become president, Congress does not vote for him, and another candidate appears who seems likely to get those votes. This is not true The PSOE’s belittling of Feijóo’s presentation and any attempt by the PP to legitimize Sánchez’s appointment are inaccurate because PSOE was not in the first place. Ours is a parliamentary regime and the president is elected by MPs.
Having said this, It makes sense that, in addition to being motivated by partisan reasons, the PP aims to represent the discontent of many citizens. With the results of the agreements Sánchez reached with his investment partners. We are talking not only about militants, sympathizers or voters of the PP, but also about voters of other options, even PSOE, or less politicized people. Agreeing to govern is as legitimate as peacefully protesting against its content.Or at least against what is known so far. And if the extreme right or the far right participate in these mobilizations, this does not make them expressions of their most revolutionary ideas, each of them puts forward what they put forward and deserves every democratic respect. All this social unrest could have been avoided if the top two parties in the Congress had sat down to negotiate seriously to secure support for the top vote-getters not only in this case but also in the earlier parties with alternative correlation, or if the Congress had not been shut down during this period. The second investment was negotiated.
PSOE has crossed lines that were considered red until a few months ago. His leadership and militancy stepped together this Sunday as they did at Junts or previously at Sumar and Esquerra. However They all did this without publicly discussing the amnesty bill, which is the cornerstone of this agreement.. A secrecy disfigured by future opposition and confusing millions of citizens. Of course, if this bill takes up the story of what happened in Catalonia in recent years, which is included in the agreement between Junts and PSOE, or includes the concept of ‘legality’, the militants, sympathizers and voters of PSOE and Sumar will be swollen. The ranks of those who have already described this as a coup against the rule of law, as some have already done in the PP demonstrations. Sánchez’s candidacy is legitimate, as are the demonstrations against him; but it is the responsibility of Congress, the ordinary courts, and the Constitutional Court to ensure the legality of what becomes law of the agreement. Sánchez must take into account what the street tells him, and Feijóo must know how to defend him in the institutions.