Feijóo steals the ball from Sánchez, kicks it comfortably, the opponent is touched, passes it between the legs, feints, pretends to shoot in the basket, but a PSOE player barely makes a stop. The president of the Spanish Government is looking for prominence. He is upset with what he has had to read. It is not a rehearsed play, the socialist team does not know what to do. Pick and roll. That is, lock and continue. The track with the ai in the heart. Jump, it's a triple attempt. The ball is in full flight. Touch the hoop and exit. The stand asks: "Why?"
This could be the basketball description of what has happened since Wednesday of last week taking as a reference a thread that @ostraperlera posted on X that went viral. Why Sánchez kept the country with woe in his heart for five days to, in the end, talk about a "mud machine" that endangers democracy is the recurring question since Monday. Basketball and the past at Estudiants have a probable explanation.
The tweet explains that Sánchez uses the blackboard and his old sport, instead of checkers, to survive on the political court. "Possession in basketball is so crucial that it is limited: you can only have it for 24 seconds in each play," he says. "This rule does not exist in politics and that is why Sánchez plays with a huge advantage over his opponents", he concludes.
Believable, but the verdict of social media has been unforgiving. Few understand what the five days of reflection have been for. The opposition doesn't understand it, not even the partners. Gabriel Rufián, the leader who basically caused Sánchez's withdrawal by asking him if he continued to trust justice, called his attitude "nothing". Catalonia votes in ten days. "Nothing", Errejón also wrote.
The logical question that Internet users ask is "and all this, for what?". The majority of criticism focuses on the fact that behind everything, rather than a strategy, there was an engagement and that the proceedings of the Madrid court were the final straw that broke the glass of Sánchez's patience. This theory gained strength when the Spanish president himself admitted that the discord letter was written by him without consulting Begoña Gómez. Was he thinking of resigning? "I had in mind to express my feelings", said Sánchez yesterday.
The consultant @dalvarez37, who monitors the activity of politicians and journalists on social networks, pointed out that during these Ides of April the atmosphere is much more polarized today than a week ago. Hopefully no one will have "a tragic end", as the director of a digital said.
