On June 6, when we began to wear those summer clothes that now return to the attic, the King proposed Pedro Sánchez as a candidate for investiture . He was missing about fifty seats for the absolute majority, but he had been the most voted force in the elections, he said he felt legitimized to form a government and had two possible ways to get the support he needed. The clearest was to form a coalition with Podemos, a party to which Sánchez himself had proclaimed his preferred partner and with whom he already ruled in several autonomies (always in solicitous agreement with any nationalist there was at hand). The other way was to make an offer to Citizens and / or the PP that encouraged them to abandon their rejection of the investiture. It could offer a large coalition ( like the one Rajoy proposed in 2016 to Sanchez himself ) or a programmatic pact. The case is that Sanchez accepted the order of the King and, later, he refused to travel by either way. He escaped all he could of the coalition with Podemos and, when he rejected his proposal - so bunglingly negotiated - he refused not to expand it until he put it back on the table. On the other side, instead of making an offer, he launched his propaganda apparatus against Cs while winking at Casado: see you in rebipartisanship. Although the obligation to obtain support was still the one who intended to be invested, Rivera was the one who ended up moving: he proposed to abstain in exchange for three reasonable conditions. The PSOE became distracted, muttered that he was running out of coverage. Before the contradictions of his position became even more evident, Sanchez made it clear that he would not try another investiture. A few minutes later, he told citizens that "I have tried it by all means, but they have made it impossible for us."

The socialist objective is clear: that the new polls cover the shame of these months by making the partridge dizzy and contributing to the blockade they say they regret . And, more generally, that these new ballot boxes legitimize once the Sanchista adventure. That they hide under a rich lace of seats all the moral and intellectual claudications that the time of Sanchez has led the PSOE. That the citizens are convinced, at last, that when they look at him they are not seeing the nakedness of their deceitful opportunism , but the imposing costume of a great statesman. There is only one problem: the polls are transparent.

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