Fifty thousand people on Passeig de Gràcia is a slightly more attractive figure than the thirty thousand on Avenida de Felipe II in Madrid two weeks ago, and, considering that the majority were not the same –a guess–, it gives us some eighty thousand people who are very much against the unborn amnesty of Pedro Sánchez, and some of them, also against the King for fulfilling his constitutional function. Aznar and Ayuso's calls for citizen rebellion, for the moment, are having a modest reception.
The motto of the demonstration,
If you think about the demonstration called by Aznar in Madrid two weeks ago or this one yesterday in Barcelona cheered for days by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but also if you analyze the development of the failed investiture session of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, you will agree that The aim of all these public events is, in some way, to provoke a change of mood in the country that sheds certainty on the panorama – whether with incontestable success or with a resounding failure – but things are quite identical on the day before and the day after. Neither Feijóo came away mortally wounded from the investiture nor did he consolidate his position as a clear alternative; Neither the anti-amnesty cause has been amplified by street calls nor can the support received translate into a fiasco. In other words, reality refuses to offer us definitive answers about the temperature of social mood, beyond the records that thermometers set day after day from north to south of the country and that do not bode well in the short term.
The pandemic closed a long cycle of political mobilization that had begun in 2011, and since then the speeches have not been able to adjust to the daily detachment of citizens towards the calls for the epic of the moment, always crucial. The agonizing hour has become political normality due to the shrug of the shoulders of the countrymen, who yesterday made the trend “Today Alonso wins.” Embracing the hyperbole of what is decisive and imminent, we prefer to invoke what is important rather than push what is important.
