Risk is a board game of alliances, betrayals and surprise attacks. The contenders try to conquer each other's territories by invading and fighting in battles. Depending on the result of the dice, players will defeat their enemy or be defeated.
Well, that's where we are in Spain. Again pending a dice. In the investiture battle, all the chips are already on the table. Nobody hides. Everyone wants to play their cards. And the spokesmen of the apocalypse once again tell us that we are facing the definitive battle that could break Spain. Again.
This week positions have been taken. The PSOE has taken the photo that Puigdemont wanted. ERC has wanted to have the role that was being denied. Oriol Junqueras has held his first rally to once again be a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, while President Pere Aragonès looked askance at him, because, apart from war, each front has its little battles.
José María Aznar has described Pedro Sánchez as a danger for Spain. Felipe González does not know who they take him for when they ask him if he would have taken the Waterloo photo. Everything is narrated in rigorous live action, turning the day-to-day life of Spanish politics into a sports carousel.
And so that no one is missing this historic event, in less than 48 hours, eight members of the General Council of the Judiciary with expired positions have affirmed that the amnesty law would abolish the rule of law, the National Court has confirmed the trial against 12 members of the CDR for terrorism and the Civil Guard points to Marta Rovira as the ringleader of Tsunami Democràtic.
This is how the game looked when I wrote this article. We cannot rule out that in this Risk, a high-risk game, there were new ambushes last night that changed the board.
If we are a little empathetic and put ourselves in each other's shoes, it is quite understandable that the right is mad as hell. Pedro Sánchez has once again shown them his lack of scruples. He is capable of anything to stay in power. And if you have to lie to the Spaniards again, you lie to them. During the electoral campaign he almost laughed at those who demanded amnesty, and now he is promoting the law that would allow the hundreds of people accused to be pardoned for having believed in the procés milonga.
There may also be confused PSOE voters. They thought that pardons would be the last frontier. But they are aware that if they do not eat the amnesty toad, the threat of the extreme right entering the Moncloa will be closer. Fright or death.
The most hyperventilated independentistas see how the leaders of their revolution not only deceived them when they promised independence, but now they deceive them by negotiating with the Spanish Government after telling them that Spain was a fascist country. What a strange fascism that pardons and amnesties yours.
The newspaper library penalizes less and less, if it ever did. You have to make it very very fat. Everyone knows that power is a poisoned candy: you like it because of its taste, while it is bitter because of its ability to ruin your principles.
And in the midst of so much crossfire, a princess appears on the board, turning 18 and promising to comply with that much-questioned Constitution. She asks us to trust her, despite being the granddaughter of someone who belongs to her. President Sánchez and the head of the opposition Feijóo share a table and raise their glasses while they ask for cheers to the King, his daughter and Spain, that country whose board is on the verge of rupture, of collapse. Sure?
