We are very prone to reducing electoral appointments to a date and a letter, as if they were spy codes. As soon as we leave 28-M behind, we now have to get used to 23-J. A J for July, with which more than one person may have had their summer holidays somewhat annoyed, especially if you had already paid for a trip and now you have to be at one of the polling stations on voting day.
And it is that, after the right and the extreme right dealt the first blow to the left in the last municipal and regional elections, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has once again summoned the Spanish to the polls in a kind of second return, a plebiscite in which, according to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, it is necessary to choose between "the sanchismo and Spain".
With the goodbye of Ciudadanos, the rise of VOX, the tug of war between Sumar and Podemos, the growth of EH Bildu and the attempt to regroup the independence movement in Catalonia, the next elections acquire a quixotic air, where it is not known if PP and PSOE are going to fight against giants or against windmills.
For this reason, in El Burladero del Lector we have used the great novel by Miguel de Cervantes, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, to adapt some of its phrases to the current political context, with Don Feijóote and Sanchismo Panza as main protagonists. We start:
