Pedro Sánchez will return today to the harsh reality of Spanish politics to give explanations about the espionage to the independence leaders in Congress. He sure had a better time on Tuesday in Davos, where the organizers of the meeting complimented him on the growth of the Spanish economy and he had the opportunity to talk with businessmen from all over the world. There he announced Intel's investment to open a pioneering microchip laboratory at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and was pleased to see that Brussels supports the project to build a gas pipeline between Spain and Italy to replace Russian fuel.
International diplomacy is more attractive than domestic miseries. It's clear. But his continuity at the head of the Government depends much more on how he manages and solves all these problems that may seem more secondary. The open crisis with its Catalan partners of Esquerra as a result of the CNI investigation is still unresolved and is becoming more complicated every day due to the persistent action of the justice system. The courts, as the editorial in El Español rightly said yesterday, cannot be a second round of elections. A punctual substitution of a Supreme Court magistrate has led the High Court to change its mind and revoke its first decision not to study the pardons granted by the Government to the leaders of the procés. That is to say, a criterion as definitive and important as this one does not depend so much on the jurisprudence as on the ideology of the magistrate that touches.
And then the entire opposition comes into a storm to wear down Sánchez, remind him that he is not outside the law and trust that the Supreme will end up annulling the grace measures so that the Government is exposed. It would be something like going back to square one, because pardons have been the best strategy to calm the turmoil in Catalan politics. It seems that there is interest in the situation in Catalonia burning again, and not only in a metaphorical sense. Therefore, the Government would do well to recover the climate lost in recent weeks with Esquerra before the situation becomes irrecoverable. As we never tire of remembering, there is still time.
