In Madrid and in Waterloo there are two presidents who can be understood. Not by any means. Not for nothing. Not with ups and downs, from now on I don't put a price on you, now I do; Now I lower it, now I pretend to make it more expensive. Because it is not about making an agreement expensive or cheap, but about giving it meaning, for politicians, but above all for citizens.
It is what one of the great winners of the recent electoral campaign, Zapatero, made fashionable in his most successful days: mood. And a credible mood as a ruler is difficult to impost. You have it or you do not. It is part of a political culture, or not. And the upstarts are noted, for example, with undisguised anxiety, which in many cases manifests itself with declarative verbiage.
Yesterday, on social media, President Puigdemont appealed for "patience, perseverance and perspective". The message was external, to neighbors and interlocutors in Madrid, but also internal. Although Junts, these days, has demonstrated a discursive and action unity well above the expectations that the many adjectives of this political space that categorize (and at the same time fantasize) about it, without knowing it in the slightest or directly from the most visceral prejudice.
Some point in networks, very calculated, has portrayed the obvious: that there are also impatient in Junts. Like some senior official who talks to as many journalists as possible and who brandishes imaginary polls that would predict a punishment for Junts in a hypothetical electoral repetition. What moves them the most is personal impatience, due to the desire to figure or not being in the decision-making nucleus. Very anecdotal, in any case.
The same thing is happening in the PSOE of President Sánchez, although with more difficulty. Normal. They know that an agreement with Junts (the decisive one) will imply an advance payment. And that, among the socialist ranks, can remove the patio.
To neutralize this swell at home, has Sánchez overreacted with the image of absolute tranquility that he has wanted to project since election night? On 23-J he came to take everything for granted, and then he went on a trip to Morocco and the Canary Islands. Like Mas, after the elections that he won against the odds against Maragall in 2003. He went on a post-electoral rest to the Canary Islands, and when he returned it was already too late. Eye.
Puigdemont's entourage has been warning for days that the Socialists have been too "excessive" in relation to the Table of Congress and that this could cost them a displeasure. He would be the first of a few. They will avoid it, if they do not treat Puigdemont as certain socialist militants did with a man who seemed to them more from another town than from another galaxy, in the work El disputado voto del señor Cayo, by Miguel Delibes.
That work, by the way, alluded to some elections, those of 1977, with which, in a certain way, if in Moncloa and Waterloo one knows how to see and face the opportunity, those of a few weeks ago could be homologated in something, because they were disruptive.
