Communities with nationalist parties were the first to live the experience of coalition governments in these years of democracy. The Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia, in the Spain of bipartisanship, experienced before the consequences of electoral arithmetic when there are more than two that add up. All those shared management governments had a common denominator, the PSOE. The socialists Fernando González Laxe and Emilio Pérez Touriño presided over the Xunta with the support of the Galician nationalists. José Antonio Ardanza was a lehendakari for many years with PSE advisors in his executive. And Pasqual Maragall and José Montilla spent seven years at the helm of the Generalitat with ERC (how to forget Carod-Rovira) and Iniciativa per Catalunya in his cabinet. Tripartite we call him, as little accustomed as we were to coalition governments. They were generally unsuccessful experiences. And the consequences of the Catalan, which dragged that Pact of the Tinell, are scary.

They were different times. After the agreement in La Rioja and the investiture in Madrid, Spain is now co-operating in thirteen of its autonomous communities. In eight of the pacts the PSOE participates, which receives or gives support to regionalist, nationalist parties and, even, has been loved by the heirs of ETA to govern Navarra. In Ceuta he has abstained so that the PP adds without Vox and in Melilla he has given his vote to become president of the only parliamentarian of Citizens.

Experience, past and recent, is left over to Spanish socialism. What is Sanchez waiting for? The new coalition proposal presented by Iglesias, with his demand for positions always ahead, is unassuming for the PSOE. But it is a proposal and, as such, Podemos is entitled to stretch it as far as its programmatic approaches take it. You can only reach a minimum agreement, with Podemos or whoever is needed, when a maximum approach has been made. That they ask Vox, who wanted to commit a new Reconquest to anyone who demanded their support to govern. Such an ideological variety in the administrations that manage the billions of the State can be interpreted as a problem, but also as a virtue. And you know what to do with the need. Spain is today that, a great coalition of diverse and convergent interests and feelings. New elections will only serve to remind us.

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