It was not a prophecy, but a mathematical problem. Pedro Sánchez needed to use the rake all over the parliamentary arch to build the wall against the right and the extreme right. He came out invested by a majority in which heterogeneous and opposing forces were camped. It was a matter of adding as much as possible, even involving new partners with whom he had promised he would never agree. 2019 has already passed with the sudden and unexpected hug between Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias.
What he possibly did not foresee is that among the allies of 2023 there were Trojan horses such as the five deputies of Podemos and the seven of Puigdemont, who would go their way without caring at all about the governability of Spain, according to said Junts spokeswoman, Míriam Nogueras, in the session to approve the first urgent decrees.
I followed the debate with great interest and it seemed to me like a Persian market, that seven-minute work by the British Albert William Ketèlbey, in which the camel drivers parade with the majestic step of their mounts, the arrival of the princess, the songs of beggars and the juggling of snake charmers.
I lost myself in the middle of the afternoon in the disorganization attributed to the metaphor of the Persian market, where everything is sold, without any control and with unforeseen and arbitrary decisions. It became clear what Urkullu had warned before the investiture, that Sánchez would need all the votes, from all the parties, in all the votes of the legislature.
The most unexpected paradox was that Puigdemont facilitated the approval of the two decrees at a very high price, still unspecified in fine print, and that the five Podemos Trojans voted against Yolanda Díaz's star proposal. I summed it up like this on social networks: Together saves Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias defeats Yolanda Díaz. Communists or pseudo-communists show no mercy to each other when they fight. Claudín and Semprún experienced it personally.
Sánchez came out unscathed, but with scratches in the first attempt. Yolanda Díaz, touched. Puigdemont moved the strings at his convenience. Feijóo, installed in the opposition. Junqueras and Aragonès, lost in combat. The legislature will be constant and unexpected marketing.
