Moving forward doesn't always mean doing it at the speed you want. Especially if it is done in company and there are different rhythms or they are driven by different goals. This is what is happening to the PSOE and Junts. Some are in a hurry to close the deal and not reach the date indicated on the calendar - November 27 - while others, on the other hand, are taking it easy. Let's go from the minister of the presidency, Félix Bolaños, who says "there's a desire" to invest, to the "we won't change the prudence and precautions we've taken until now, no matter how hastily some may be" of Carles Puigdemont.
Since the negotiations became complicated on Thursday, when everything seemed to indicate that the road was on the way - even the press room in a Brussels hotel was set up to announce the agreement - the two negotiating delegations have not stopped passing -se technical documents. From these reports, for now, there are no results beyond the noise that this long wait is generating.
An offensive by the PP and Vox in the Senate, in regional parliaments and town halls to vote against the criminal oblivion law. "Spontaneous" demonstrations (one day it will have to be made clear what is spontaneous and what is organized) in front of the socialists' village houses. Criticism of the National Police and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for the charge in front of the PSOE headquarters in Madrid.
A Judiciary that enters the scene with a statement against an as yet unknown law that entails the "abolition of the rule of law" and judges that close cases in record time after they were languishing for four years in the National Court . Calls for insurrection and rebellion by ultra-nationalists.
All this happens before there is an agreement, if there is one, and without the text of the law being registered or revealed. But even so, it's the perfect breeding ground for something to eventually happen, and that something doesn't necessarily have to be a deal with Junts. Warming up the citizens with insults and crude and populist speeches has risks. The ending can be uncontrollable. Especially when it is encouraged to fill the street daily.
There is always someone who can take these harangues that encourage "surrounding Ferraz" very seriously. There is always someone who wants to take advantage of the chaos. There is always someone who gives way to his violence and ends up getting away with a club with bad luck. Always.
