Fifty thousand people in Passeig de Gràcia is a slightly more successful number than the thirty thousand in Avenida Felipe II in Madrid, two weeks ago, and, considering that the majority were not the same – a guess -, it gives us about eighty thousand people who are very much against Pedro Sánchez’s non-born amnesty, and some of them, also the King to fulfill his constitutional function. Aznar and Ayuso’s calls for citizen rebellion are, at the moment, receiving a modest reception.
The motto of the demonstration,
If you think about the demonstration called by Aznar in Madrid two weeks ago or the one yesterday in Barcelona acclaimed for days by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but also if you analyze the development of the failed investiture session of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, you will agree that the aim of all these public events is, in some way, to bring about a change of mood in the country that gives certainty about the panorama – either with an indisputable success or with a resounding failure – but things are quite identical the day before and the day after. Neither Feijóo came out mortally wounded from the investiture nor did he consolidate his position as a patent alternative; neither the anti-amnesty cause has been amplified by street calls nor can the support received translate into a fiasco. In other words, reality refuses to offer us definitive answers about the temperature of the social mood, beyond the records that the thermometers mark day after day from north to south of the country and which do not bode well nothing good in the short term.
The pandemic closed a long cycle of political mobilization that had opened in 2011, and since then the speeches have not been able to adjust to the daily disinterest of citizens towards the appeals to the epic of the moment, always crucial The dying hour has become political normalcy in the face of the shrug of the shoulders of the villagers, who yesterday trended “Today Alonso wins”. Set to embrace the hyperbole of the decisive and imminent, we prefer to invoke the important rather than push the important.
