The Blitzkrieg operation that Pedro Sánchez deployed to end 2022 seems to be advancing, much to his regret, with the irritating squeal of the handbrake on. And already in mid-February 2023. In just over three months, then, the first electoral contest of the course is settled: the municipal and regional ones.
The economic and political apocalypse that the right predicted did not come, and with the third consecutive state budget approved, and by a large absolute majority, the president decided to take action with a blitzkrieg on all fronts. "We are going to step on the accelerator", they alerted, very graphically, in the Moncloa.
The plan was to close all the uncomfortable folders or complex electoral digestion before the Christmas break, settling all the pending legislative struggles with United We Can. And also the always thorny Catalan dossier. "With the approved budgets, another stage begins, we enter electoral mode and set our own profile," they celebrated in the PSOE.
The Government forced a judicial reform to circumvent the vetoes of the PP and a deep criminal review, negotiated with ERC, to complete the dejudicialization of the Catalan political conflict. At the same time, he accelerated all the discussions of the most conflictive legislative agenda within the coalition. In Moncloa they warned that with so many open fronts the PP no longer knew which one to shoot.
The correction of the only yes is yes, after the devastating effects of its judicial application, together with the repeal of sedition and the very risky reform of embezzlement, there should already be battles of the past ready to be forgotten to face the new electoral cycle with the banners of increasing pensions, the defense of public health or the new rise in the minimum wage that the Council of Ministers approved yesterday. Sánchez wants to accelerate, but he can't get up some of the handbrakes.
