Giulio Andreotti, who was in charge of the Italian Council of Ministers on seven occasions, is the author of the phrase “power wears out, especially when you don't have it”, which the PP has internalized excessively, which usually lacks finesse. when he does not have it and, on the other hand, he is in a hurry. Andreotti was a cynic and with his sarcasm a book of political quotes could be written. Only he could think of saying this sentence in public: “Governing is not about solving problems, but about silencing those who cause them.”
This is not the first time this has happened to the popular ones. What's more, it seems that they have an excessively patrimonial conception of power and when they lose at the polls they have the feeling that they have been kicked out of the house. It happened to them when José María Aznar lost the elections to Felipe González in 1993, despite the fact that the polls gave them winners and it happened to them again thirty years later, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo was left on the verge of victory when nothing it foreshadowed it. And in both cases, their opposition was immediately implacable, often breaking the rules of parliamentary respect.
It would seem that it is difficult for them to be the opposition, when their function is very important in democracy, which is reflected in the Spanish Constitution itself. The opposition is a counterweight, a controller of the Government, an alternative. The good opposition is not the one that seeks to hinder, put a spanner in the works or stop positive initiatives for the country, but rather the one that provides constructive criticism, proposes other options and is transparent in its will to engage in politics.
But the PP confuses – and we are seeing it these days – doing politics with overthrowing the Government. And they just can't find the tone. You cannot go around asking for Pedro Sánchez's head every day the first minute a problem appears. Politics is not a hunt. These days they are shooting against the President of the Government, against the President of Congress or against the Minister of the Interior. At times, Sánchez could paraphrase Andreotti when he proclaimed: “They have accused me of everything except the Punic Wars, because he was too young.”
