Pedro does his thing again. He brings out the killer side of him again. The more kamikaze side of him. Seeing some covers, it seems that the former basketball player has just made another mate: not only does he not reform but he repeals the crime of sedition. He shakes the hoop. The gatherings in Madrid are furious. I would love to think that the measure is taken out of conviction: for wanting a Spain comparable to other European countries, a more modern Spain, with crimes that are not relics inherited from the past. Although pardons are also a grace with centuries of history and it did not occur to him to repeal them.
Whether we like it more or less, Pedro Sánchez is not a romantic ideologue. He has given ample evidence of being able to embody Mister Incredible and Elasti-Girl at the same time. He is a machine programmed to win elections. I would love to think that there are no vested interests in taking such a supposedly risky move. But the age of innocence passed. Sánchez's decision, agreed with United We Can and with Esquerra Republicana, is a move that if you see it repeated it is not a big deal. Take the VAR. Has Sánchez repealed the crime of sedition? Yes. If the events of October 2017 are repeated, could a court re-convict the defendants? Also. And more so taking into account how interpretive the Penal Code can be. Without going any further, review the sentence of the procés trial.
What are we seeing now? Before the same play and according to the interests, the celebration of a goal or the protests for a resounding offside. Or claim a penalty when everyone knows it's a swimming pool. Gesticulation, come on. Aragonès celebrates the goal as if it were a Chilean; Puigdemont asks for offside while watching TV; Feijóo demands the expulsion of Sánchez before a killer entry, unsportsmanlike, which is outside the regulations.
But Sánchez carries the ball and that always gives you an advantage. At the moment in the photo both PP and Junts are already pissed off. Esquerra exaggerates the euphoria and the Socialists want the goal to go up on the scoreboard but without celebrating it too much, with some traditional whistling in the stands of Mancha and La Mancha.
Everything that is not going back to October 2017 makes me happy. And that, more or less like the method, Sánchez is achieving it, taking measures that were unthinkable not so many months ago. There are not so many precedents that the promises made from Madrid to Catalan parties end up being fulfilled. And that is what ERC can argue in exchange for the PSOE carrying out its third budgets.
If I were Sánchez's rival, I would be scared. What calculation must the killer have made, the survivor of all the battles, to take such a controversial and determined measure? Do they know that the interview where he announced it didn't work, that in Catalonia it didn't reach a hundred thousand viewers and in Spain as a whole it didn't reach a million? Have you stopped being interested in and penalizing the Catalan issue? Do you get the media spotlights to focus on that repeal, while the ordinary citizen is still worried about filling the fridge? Do you take the opportunity to further strain relations between Feijóo and Ayuso? Is he stealing ERC's wallet while the Republicans continue to celebrate his alleged great goal? With United We Can, there is no need for them to do anything because they are already doing it for themselves.
It gives me that Sánchez is putting the game in his face. The only thing missing is for them to win the World Cup with such a plural Spain team. And that Elon Musk loads Twitter. The anti-sanchistas are not going to be able to let off steam either. Pedro is doing it again.
