"Mr. President, if everything is going smoothly, if the projects are being approved, if we all cooperate, why do I have that feeling of discomfort week after week, of continually arguing with you?" The PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, objected to some of the measures taken by Sánchez, he spoke of competencies, commitments, strategies for structural challenges, but the one he heads is the most relevant phrase about the position of the Basque group, with half of the legislature.
Because the PNV spokesman, who to varying degrees has been expressing this discomfort with the coalition government — more with the PSOE than with United We Can — for more than a year, yesterday wanted the political issue to be that discomfort and that warning he made very explicit: “How do you intend to reach the government and maintain a majority in the next legislature? With whom do you plan to reach Moncloa in the next elections? he snapped at Sanchez.
And he continued with his speech, in which there was also a very explicit message to the PP: "Unless you want a grand coalition, the 'you can't afford it' as an argument to support him is very soft."
The PNV - it is worth remembering - which gave stability to the PP government until the Gürtel sentence and which decided the final fate of Mariano Rajoy with his change of vote, has sent a telegram to Alberto Núñez Feijóo with a list of duties for the that there is no need for translators: "It is true that the messages from the PP are not at all encouraging and that they continue in the confrontation as an alternative", and another to Pedro Sánchez: "All of this is true, but the 'you have no alternative to me' is a reason that is not very encouraging and not very intelligent, because it does not generate enthusiasm or adherence”, and furthermore, “you the one who cannot afford it”.
That was the most relevant thing about the notice launched by the PNV, although it was wrapped in allusions to competitions and breaches, the underlying issue is the loss of confidence and the discomfort of the PNV with the way the socialists behave "as if they had an absolute majority ”.
President Sánchez got the tone, and although in his answers he referred to the agreements and compliance, in his tone, also serious, he implied that he had grasped the seriousness of what, under the radar, was happening at that time and the importance of it to the legislature. In his reply, yes, he made the mistake of insisting on praising the interterritorial councils and co-governance, and that led to an angry reaction from Esteban: “I have told him that we do not want interterritorial councils, that we want to exercise our powers. And you with the roll this of co-governance are doing what you are doing.
And faithful to his own political character, he left for the minutes a version of the muleteer we are: "Whoever wants to have chickens on Lord's Day, let him goof off on Ascension Day."
