Pedro Sánchez seems determined to hurry all the privileges granted by the acting presidency without responding to the duties of the office. This is the only way to explain that, given the eventuality of an electoral repetition present in Sánchez's partisan calculations from the beginning, the acting president will turn himself into rounds of contacts with related social and collective entities to pressure Podemos while his Government has been half a year without submitting to parliamentary control. A democratic anomaly that Sanchez himself reproached Mariano Rajoy, whose refusal to submit to the control of the Cortes during the ten months he remained in office was appealed to the Constitutional Court by the PSOE. The sentence was late in coming but he proved the Socialists right: he concluded that the PP Government violated the Magna Carta by subtracting from Parliament's vigilance. Now Sanchez from power imitates Rajoy's worst attitudes, and evidences once again that his career is explained earlier by unscrupulous ambition than by the credible desire for regeneration.

But Sánchez, with the seats he has, could not afford this behavior if the rest of the political groups did their job representing the right of citizens to the accountability of their leaders. Both PP and Cs have registered several requests for urgent appearance by the acting president and the ministers concerned for serious current affairs, but for them to succeed they need the contest of Podemos. Yesterday Pablo Iglesias' party believed he approached the possibility of the coalition government saving Sanchez the drink of having to give an account of the role of Spain in the migration crisis this summer, particularly with respect to the Open Arms, which caught the president on vacation in Doñana . It had to be Carmen Calvo who assumed responsibility for the crisis, and we can hold on to this pretext to claim Calvo's appearance instead of Sánchez. Who also has pending all the explanations referring to what is discussed in the European councils. We will have to wait for it at the time that best suits Moncloa within the regular session. The same applies to María Jesús Montero, to whom the PP demands that she explain the situation of the expenditure ceiling by 2020, and with another half dozen ministers: from Grande-Marlaska, to report the G-7 security device, to the head of Health, María Luisa Carcedo, for the listeriosis outbreak.

We can decide to exert Sanchez's crutch and screen not only a moral claudication but also a tactical error. The first because Iglesias broke into politics under the banner of transparency. And the second because Sanchez will not stop forcing elections, if that suits him, by a gesture between accomplice and mendicant of Podemos.

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