The government control sessions, on consecutive days, of the Senate and Congress have served this week for a presentation of PSOE and PP credentials for the 28-M elections and, if nothing happens, surely also for December. Both formations, as respective leaders of the two halves of the parliamentary arch, have summarized their programmatic discourse for the immediate future in a clear way: sanchismo and its repealers will face each other. It was successively repeated by – to this day – the first and second swords of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Cuca Gamarra, in the upper and lower chambers, respectively: “We will repeal sanchismo”.
From this dilemma – sanchismo versus derogators – it is already clear a priori that there is a political object, sanchismo, and an alternative offer that can only be defined by its position contrary to that object and its desire and promise to suppress it. In order not to snub the teacher of journalists Guillem Martínez, once this scenario has been verified, what proceeds is to define this new object whose political dimensions seem to occupy all the available space, to the point that it not only defines the coalition government but is the only instrument available to define itself that meets its opposition. Sanchismo, according to Sánchez – it can be deduced without much imagination from his speeches in Parliament on Tuesday and Wednesday – is an alternative model for managing the economy and its endemic crises to neoliberalism, “more fair” but also “more efficient”. . Yesterday the president insisted in Congress on the figures that place us at the head of several positive rankings, -as reported by the international press and envy by his social democrat colleagues- such as growth, job creation, containment of inflation and the reduction of inequality.
It is also a pragmatic and pact-minded object that wanted alliances with the moderation that Ciudadanos was presumed to be but, when that could not be -because Albert Rivera came to be an essentially nationalist party-, cleared his throat and sought allies in the Keynesian left -formerly communist- and in that nationalism that in Madrid they call "peripheral", it is supposed that by opposition to the local. A kind commentator could say that this joint-venture called “the majority of the Sanchista legislature” is quite similar to the diverse and contradictory State that we have constituted since they stopped telling us how to constitute ourselves.
The trade unionist and former parliamentarian Joan Coscubiela wrote yesterday in eldiario.es that perhaps we call the end of neoliberal hegemony polarization, that is, a return of ideology, the broadening of the offer. It is true that the accident (2008) and subsequent death (2020) of neoliberalism, after 40 years of being the only recipe available, has created problems for almost all Western conservative parties –except for Christian democracy, possessing a socialist gene– and reduced his project to choosing between nationalism and Trumpism, or a mixed sandwich of both, as we saw in the procés. That would explain why the PP has redefined its project as anti-Sanchista, which would be both and will surely receive the blessings of that other autonomous object that does exist on the right, which it watches with a baleful gaze and which we call Ayusismo.
