The New Plant Spain, which is the political project that began with the stormy investiture of Pedro Sánchez after his agreements with the different independence movements, directs the socialists who are not part of the narrow circle of trust of the Moncloa to the (unpleasant) task ) of having to preach during the legislature that has just begun – and whose duration is quite uncertain: it will depend on the continuous evaluation that the nationalists make in Switzerland on a background in which the Basque and Catalan elections are already guessed – a new gospel before a community of believers divided between atheists, agnostics and doubters.
“Even the last councilor has to teach about the amnesty,” Ferraz's record orders. The problem, especially in Andalusia, which is going to be one of the hottest areas of the territorial war that is already on the horizon, is that such a mission, in addition to being endless, just like the painful task assigned to Sisyphus by the gods , implies having to see the priests who until 23J were Catholics and Romans become Anglicans.
The change has something of a collective tear, although in some cases it is also experienced as an intimate tragedy whose most exact analogy is in the England of the time of Henry VIII, when an absolute monarchy decided to become independent from Rome without ceasing to believe in Christ. The religious and social history of the British Isles was then divided forever.
The trance that the Andalusian socialists are going through implies having to move – without perishing – from the unique truth of a God (territorial equality) to the neo-paganisms of Plurinational Spain. A change of faith to continue within the orthodoxy that will be a quinary, because as Moncloa makes decisions to not lose its scarce and uncertain parliamentary majority, territorial tension and social unrest will not abate. They will grow.
Genoa, of course, will try to ensure that the fire that burns in the (Olympic) cauldron does not stop burning at any moment. It will mobilize all the institutional resources at its disposal in the autonomies it directs to combat the political designs of the PSOE-SumarIndependentistas coalition. In the South of Spain, where the rejection and concern about the terms of the investiture agreement is very broad and transversal, the pedagogy that Ferraz demands of his leaders and militants does not so much involve preaching in the desert, but rather against nature.
Andalusian socialism has made the principle of regional symmetry its DNA for four long decades, until the defeat of Rocío Peronism and the subsequent unexpected enthronement of Sanchismo. Having to now defend the agreement with the independentists is similar to seeing the Pope of Rome renounce the Catholic faith to become a rabbi of the Hebrew religion. More than a schism, what Ferraz claims about San Vicente – the street in Seville where the Andalusian PSOE headquarters is located – is an act of communal apostasy. A theological immolation.
Spain has entered an uncertain political time where two opposing legitimacies are being resolved: on the one hand, the (legal) defense of the autonomous and institutionalized State; on the other, a country in which nationalists want to manage, outside of state institutions, all the taxes of taxpayers residing in Catalonia.
The task of turning this circle into a square has been entrusted to the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, promoted to fourth vice president in the new cabinet. The Sevillian politician, during her time as Finance Minister of the Junta, incessantly demanded from the PP governments more financial resources for the Quirinale de San Telmo. Later, she kept the regional financing file in a drawer for more than five years, compromising the interests of regions as important as Valencia or Andalusia.
In this new stage, he will have to negotiate with all the autonomous governments, for the most part in the hands of the PP and Vox. Being the starting point complex, the agreements with the Catalan and Basque independentists, who accept preferential treatment and cause grievances in the rest of Spain, are going to be a categorical condition for the success of the company.
Catalonia, Madrid and the Balearic Islands are the only three autonomies with a positive fiscal balance. If the model demanded by Junts and ERC were extended to all three, public services in the rest of Spain would become priceless, establishing not two, but many different speeds of development in Spain. The socialists of Andalusia have not placed any minister from their orbit of influence in the new cabinet, since Montero and Planas are personal appointments of Sánchez. None has been anointed to please the southern socialists. They don't weigh anything. Ordering them to defend the benefits of a New Plan Andalusia, inferior with respect to Catalonia and unequal with the Basque Country, is the same thing that the Caesars of Rome did with the primitive Christians: sending them to die in the Colosseum.
