It was not a prophecy, but a mathematical question. Pedro Sánchez needed to rake the entire parliamentary arc to build the wall against the right and the extreme right. He was inaugurated by a majority in which heterogeneous and opposing forces camped. It was about adding whatever it took, even with partners with whom he had promised never to agree. It already happened in 2019 with the sudden and unexpected hug between Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias.
What perhaps he did not foresee is that among the allies of 2023 there were hidden Trojan horses like the five Podemos deputies and the seven Puigdemont deputies, who would go about their business without caring at all about the governability of Spain, according to the Junts spokesperson. Míriam Nogueras, in the session to approve the first urgent decrees of the new Executive.
I followed the debate with great interest and it seemed to me like a Persian market, that seven-minute work by the British Albert William Ketèlbey, in which the camel drivers parade with the majestic step of their mounts, the arrival of the princess, the singing of the beggars and the juggling of snake charmers.
I got lost in the middle of the afternoon in the disorganization attributed to the metaphor of the Persian market in which everything is sold, without any control and with unforeseen and arbitrary decisions. It was clear what Urkullu had warned before the investiture, that Sánchez would need all the votes, from all the parties, in all the votes of the legislature.
The most unforeseen paradox was that Puigdemont facilitated the approval of the two decrees at a very high price, even without specifying in fine print, and that the five Trojans of Podemos voted against Yolanda Díaz's star proposal. I summarized it like this on social networks: Junts saves Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias defeats Yolanda Díaz. Communists or pseudo-communists show no mercy to each other when they fight. Claudín and Semprún experienced it in their careers.
Sánchez emerged unharmed but with scratches in the first attempt. Yolanda Díaz, touched. Puigdemont pulled the strings at his convenience. Feijóo, installed in the opposition. Junqueras and Aragonès, lost in combat. The legislature will be a constant marketing.
