Political strategists have become accustomed to threatening the first norm of their trade, which is that the strategies are not explained. The good strategy is a hidden guide that is barely intuited, hence the problems of authorship and hence the temptation of the strategist to puff up. It is a vain circle . The spin doctors are explaining their strategies to journalists with the hope of posterity and thus they have put everything lost from that story and frame. I give up too.

There is only one fascinating story in this campaign and it is that of Pedro Sánchez. His interest, more literary than political, lies in the complexity of its plot and the boldness of its structure. It is a formal vacuum jump. Sánchez introduces himself to 10-N as the architect and the victim of electoral repetition. He inaugurated the time of instability and only thanks to instability could he prosper enough to present himself with the promise of stability. The fascist emergency of which he alerted the public just a few months ago did not prevent him from playing democracy to a new turn of electoral roulette. And only a prodigious narrator could transform the essential partner of Podemos into a danger to the State, sometimes because of his bisoñez and other times because of his populism.

Sanchez's story has to be read as Cortázar proposed to read his hopscotch . If one is reading Sanchez's story in a linear fashion, he will be losing everything and that is why I propose a more daring reading .

I would jump from that parliamentary session in which he called Rivera a hypocrite for blocking the formation of the Government to this beautiful, and unjustly treated by the press, passage of his interview with Ferreras in La Sexta: "If I had wanted to agree with Mr. Rivera , Why are we going to an election if we add 180 seats? "

The narration, apparently chaotic, is making sense with this new jump reading system. Attention to this passage of the Resistance Manual in which he describes the press conference in which Rajoy announced that he would not present himself to the investiture: "[Appearance] from La Moncloa, in a new contempt for the institution he embodies, since he he did not appear as president of the Government, but as leader of a political group. " Its depth is more evident if the story continues in the press conference, from La Moncloa, in which Sanchez called to unify the vote of the progressives.

Sánchez's story is one of those masterpieces that explain a whole genre . The story, it's simple, is just that form of propaganda that pretends to make the lie credible.

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