What is Pedro Sánchez waiting for?

We wonder what the Government of Spain is waiting to intervene in Catalonia. Since the "generalized violence" dike was broken last Monday - the quotes are from Moncloa - the situation has been degrading day by day. Every hour that passes, and despite the commendable delivery of the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Civil Guard and the Police, it becomes more evident that the Generalitat not only does not suffice to restore public order but also offers constant evidence that no It has that objective as a priority. Because his only priority, in the words of the still president Quim Torra, remains the independence of Catalonia. Torra tries to politically monetize the spiral of wild disturbances to relaunch the unilateral confrontation with the State , threatening another referendum and dragging an ERC that, however much it disagrees privately, never dares to break in public with the valid Puigdemont.

The situation is unsustainable. And article 155 serves exactly for situations such as this one, in which the leaders of an autonomy neither want nor can already assume constitutional control. Marlaska's efforts to sell a "normal" that nobody perceives in Barcelona are ridiculous , whose neighbors have been enduring the destruction, sabotage, fire, collapses, strikes and other milestones of the new insurrectionary program that is before our eyes. The images are improper of the fourth democracy in Europe. Reputational damage to a city that is an emblem of our tourism is already incalculable. The feeling of insecurity is at ease and fear spreads even among agents. The life of the citizens has been kidnapped by the whim of the violent, determined to declare independence by way of revolutionary events, because they no longer trust the will of their politicians or the allegedly peaceful and regulatory procedures that until now they had served to mask the totalitarian design of the process. The protest over the ruling of the Supreme Court and in favor of the freedom of the damned is a pretext: it is, as always, to consummate secession as it is.

Sanchez is caught by his decision to force an electoral replay whose campaign he knew would coincide with the effects of the 1-O ruling. Perhaps he believed that the protest would not reach a level of virulence typical of urban guerrillas, capable of substantiating judicial cases for terrorism. But it is too late to regret miscalculations: he has to stop thinking as a 10-N socialist candidate and behave like the president due to the security and freedom of his governed. Mechanically repeating the mantra of "firmness, unity and proportionality" is of no use if it remains in mere propaganda to try to gain time that Catalans anxious for protection do not have. To invoke a "social legitimacy" to justify their passivity is another conceptual trap that a president supported by the opposition does not need, since between PSOE, PP and Cs they represent an overwhelming majority of Spaniards worried about the growing chaos in Catalonia. Sanchez must stop shielding in moderation - is it not moderate to apply to the law? - his disguised desire to do nothing that disturbs his past, present and future alliances with independentistas; the same that made him president in the motion of censure, with which he governs communities and municipalities and on which his future investiture may depend.

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