One of the most common practices in the exercise of political journalism is the technique of anticipation. From a series of empirical data, such as electoral polls, a whole theory is built on the evolution that the different parties are going to have in the coming months. The insistent and continuous repetition of the crisis of a certain formation, as the polls predict, means that this hypothetical result is interpreted by all as the safest and most probable option. This is what is happening now to the PSOE. The combination of the bad omens from the polls in the Andalusian elections with the disagreements with his government partners and with the rest of the parties that support him in Congress is causing Pedro Sánchez to seem more like a living dead than the president he He still has a long way to go until the end of the legislature.
Anticipatory journalism not only foresees a spectacular crash of the PSOE in Andalusia, but also assumes an imminent government crisis after these elections and the impossibility of being able to approve the next budgets due to lack of agreement. Even the names of the ministers who are going to fall in this future crisis are already known.
My personal forecast also agrees that the Government is not going through its best moment, but it is worth remembering that these same defeatist forecasts against the PSOE occurred before the regional elections in Castilla-La Mancha and in the end the one who ended up resigning was Pablo Married. And Sánchez has shown to have an infinite resilience capacity that has made him win battles that everyone considered lost for his cause.
They say that the president has access to a computer system that allows him to know up to the minute what the citizens would vote, just as in the newspaper we can know at every moment our audience, the number of subscribers and the news that has the most impact. Sánchez has always been an enthusiast of the demoscopic and it is normal that now he has even greater anxiety to know where the shots are going, given such bad omens. However, he knows better than anyone that he is still very much alive.
