In 1978 the renewal of surrealism took over San Sebastià. Our particular Paris in miniature was revolutionized by the Cloc Group (GC). Its members were Álvaro Bermejo, José Félix del Clot and, attention, Fernando Aramburu, who needs no introduction today. GC was a youthful adventure of provocation, humor and literature. Cloc alluded to the noise that chickpeas make when they fall from an eighth floor onto the empty heads of passers-by. His surrealism, like political advice, was constructive and destructive at the same time but only with that which limited the vision and endangered the mission. Cloc was a group called precisely art and desart.
Chickpeas, therefore, that descend like Enola Gay on some heads after the sixth censorship of democracy. The first knock is on Santiago Abascal's head. The main consequence of the motion is that the idea of a PP and Vox Government, far from sweetened, has been enormously ridiculed. There was no real candidate, no specific program and no report from the transition academy before the coalition. Their censorship turned into self-censorship with a lethal electoral effect on the left and right. Vox's appeal to fear is not that it doesn't mobilize, but that it produces laughs. The numbers never deceive: Vox was the party that grew the most in 2021 with 900,000 more votes. 2022 is the formation that loses the most on the right (856,000) together with Cs (844,000). In 2023 the decline continues to be slow but structural.
The second crack in the shell is for Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The opposition leader decided to lock himself in an ivory tower fortified by diplomatic columns. However, chickpeas also have an impact on embassies. Manuel Fraga was the one who knew those towers well and always had a sickly look at the milky white. He counted chickpeas in Congress, as the older ones will remember, and, mind you, he contrasted them precisely with the figures and macropolitical stories manipulated precisely by cloistered, empty and Swedish representatives.
In politics you have to be careful what you deserve because often the gods don't give you what you want but what you desire. The PP and Vox sum has entered dark blue almost black. It no longer has an absolute majority (176 seats). And the only scenario that could be left to Feijóo after 28-M is the solo government he wants. His Política para adultos was born with an original sin: the theoretical resurrection of bipartisanship. That will not be given. The more useful votes the PP gathers, if Sumar (soon, for sure, with the engine Podemos) develops a good race strategy, obtaining the third position ahead of Vox, his presidency is literally over. He will be able to win in the popular vote, yes, like Mariano Rajoy, but in Spain whoever governs wins.
The PP misinterprets its victories. It is necessary to distinguish between winning from the opposition or the central government. Winning as an opposition has been an enormously difficult task since 2014. In reality, all the main victories of the blues, as well as, for example, the regional governments held in 2019, have been thanks to the action of the Government, never to their opposition action. A balance was voted, with more or less punishment, and it came out favorable. Including Andalusia. Remember: the absolute majority was obtained from the Junta machinery, not from the opposition. The question is: is Feijóo making a good opposition?
The third chickpea, this one with protection but direct to the helmet, is for the coalition, the big winners of the motion. Watch out for the word ticket, tandem or couple for Yolanda Díaz and Pedro Sánchez. The frame is counterproductive. There are no white marks. They must be opposites: what is the PSOE? A left-wing party that has another left on its side. When I was young, a socialist told me that if IU didn't exist, it would have to be invented so that there would be PSOE. What is Summar, technically? A movement overcoming the PSOE that we know is close to the people, not far away. A political upheaval of society as a whole, a left-wing social democracy for some or pure art, a Laborism of 1945 for others or artlessness that finally undoes Tony Blair's third way. All thanks to the vision of a new country that, against the odds, manages to re-issue the coalition Government. His first mission.
