Feijóo steals the ball from Sánchez, he dribbles it comfortably, the opponent is touched, he passes it between his legs, he feints, he fakes a shot at the basket, but a PSOE player barely blocks it. The President of the Government seeks prominence. He is upset with what he has had to read. It is not a rehearsed move, the socialist team does not know what it is going to do. Pick and roll. That is, blocking and continuing. The field in suspense. Jump, it's a three-point attempt. The ball is in full flight. It hits the rim and goes out. The crowd asks: “Why?”
This could be the basketball description of what happened since Wednesday of last week, taking as reference a thread that @ostraperlera published on X and that went viral. Why Sánchez kept the country in suspense for five days to, in the end, talk about a “mud machinery” that endangers democracy is the recurring question since Monday. Basketball and the past at Estudiantes have a probable explanation.
The tweeter explains that Sánchez uses the blackboard and his old sport, instead of the chess queen, to survive on the political field. “Possession is so crucial in basketball that it is limited: you can only have it for 24 seconds on each play,” she says. “That rule does not exist in politics and that is why Sánchez plays with an enormous advantage over his opponents,” she concludes.
It is plausible, but the verdict of social networks has been relentless. Few understand what the five days of reflection have been for. The opposition does not understand it, not even the partners. Gabriel Rufián, the leader who ultimately caused Sánchez's retirement by asking him if he still trusted in justice, called his attitude “nothing.” In ten days the vote will be held in Catalonia. “Nothing,” Errejón also wrote.
The logical question that Internet users ask is “and all this, for what?” The majority criticism focuses on the fact that behind everything, more than a strategy, there was anger and that the proceedings of the Madrid court were the last straw for Sánchez's patience. This theory gained strength when the president himself admitted that he wrote the letter of disagreement without consulting Begoña Gómez. Was resigning on your mind? “I had it in my head to express my feelings,” Sánchez said yesterday.
Consultant @dalvarez37, who monitors the activity of politicians and journalists on social networks, pointed out that during these Ides of April the environment is much more polarized today than it was a week ago. It is to be hoped that no one has “a tragic end,” as the director of a digital said.
