However, it moves. They do not have the delicacy to tell us how the yes to Pedro Sánchez is negotiated, the newspapers can only publish speculation, obscurantism is dark, the rulers hold press conferences without questions, it makes you want to write that they are killing information, but this moves and this week the first legislative agreement of the half dozen that will be necessary to avoid repeating elections was celebrated. Congratulations to the signatories, who have cheered it at the Reina Sofía Museum as if it were a work of art and with speeches overflowing with triumphalist color. The first harvest of information has not been bad: they got quite a few covers, hundreds of comments and took up a lot of discussion time. It has been the first success of the hard-working Yolanda Díaz in the new and still confusing legislature.
I attribute the success to Mrs. Díaz because, indeed, it is hers. She has worked for it since she assumed Pablo Iglesias' inheritance. She cultivated it province by province, to incorporate all the parties currently integrated into Sumar into her discipline. She demonstrated how to act as a killer, an essential lesson in Spanish politics, and deposit the corpses of Podemos in the large funeral pyre of the Moncloa. And the almost three hundred government commitments – “intentions”, Josep Martí Blanch wrote here – that he signed with Pedro Sánchez bear his hallmarks. They are much more similar to the ideology that we know of Yolanda Díaz than to that of any current leader of the Socialist Party. It is not strange that Díaz celebrated it with a holiday: “Today is a big day.” Quite a few people on the left think the same.
Think the same, because only one of the agreed measures, the reduction of the working day, is the dream of any left-wing leader, especially a union member, to go down in history. Therefore, the more the employers and conservative published opinion oppose, the more they will show their chest because it gives them the security of being on the right path. And he also thinks the same, or at least similar, because the agreement is the first sign of progressive unity. It is insufficient to guarantee power on its own, but without it it would be impossible. In that sense, the Sánchez-Díaz marriage is the starting point. Almost the least important thing is the content, because there are four years ahead to expand, prioritize, clarify or directly change, and we already know how easy it is to change our mind if circumstances dictate. It seemed much more difficult to accommodate in legality the amnesty and other counterparts of the Catalan independence movement, and these days it is being shown that in politics there are difficulties, but not impossible, as long as there is will, and in Moncloa there will be nothing else, but there is no need will to prevent Feijóo's access.
After this proclamation of a covered need, an infinite number of doubts can be expressed, some of which are transcendent. For example, what will the five seats of Podemos, ostentatiously marginalized, do in the medium term; what anti-capitalist aspects could provoke the rejection of future conservative partners such as Junts and the PNV; What will be the effects of fiscal policy, income, investments and very important social spending in an economy in the process of cooling, or what is the credibility of a management program that does not present a single forecast of income and expenses.
Too bad, the Sánchez and Díaz teams will say; that the absence of something as vulgar as economic memory is going to deteriorate the greatness of a project. Pelillos a la mar, repeats this chronicler, who reads the fifty pages, baptismal certificate of the basic agreement of the new government, closes his eyes and sees that new Spain that he announces is going to be born. It is the Spain of the great Yolanda Díaz. Yolanda in Wonderland, the paradise of social rights, where we will work less, earn more, there will be affordable housing, the rich will pay their fair share, the poor will live better, the minimum wage will be fair, pensions will have maximum guarantee, healthcare will function perfectly, education will reach a level of excellence...
All this, naturally, with the permission of the elements: Putin, Netanyahu and, if God does not remedy it, Donald Trump. I do not include Puigdemont in this list because, once Feijóo gave him respect because at least he does not deceive anyone, it is already a guarantee of credibility. One more step, and the leader of Junts will be a guarantor of stability.
