The 10-N referendum

November 10 will be a referendum in which what we are going to ask is that simple: Sánchez yes or Sánchez no. I don't care if Sánchez counts in this case as yes.

As much as we all repeat it, and until we get convinced, the next November is not a legislative election but in appearance, which, as everyone knows or suspects, often deceives. I guess this has already been said or left written by someone somewhere and I regret not quoting it. However complex the scenario may seem to us and candidates who present themselves, six when these lines are written, Pedro Sánchez and the Socialist Party have managed to turn some legislative into that: a referendum . Not only is it not your least achievement, but it is your only achievement.

In principle, in a world where personalism and narcissism (sorry for neologism) dominate everything, it would be said that there was no choice but to exploit them in favor of a figure as inessential as that of our prime minister, someone capable of enduring interviews of an hour without saying absolutely nothing , at least, absolutely nothing that has any substance. But the shot could go through the butt as dictated by the experience of other leaders in love with what the mirror returned and whispered the polls.

For that to happen, however, it is clear that among the representatives of Sánchez no, that, apparently, they are almost all the other candidates except Errejón, something would have to happen, a revulsive one would have to happen: resignations of the failed leaders. For example, that Albert Rivera, after his skating , gave up his position at once, a blow of effect that would take us out of the increasingly placid dejà vu that, if you are not a hooligan of any of the games, drive, for hours of television talk show that you throw over, indifference. It anesthetizes us to that point where the yes or he does not give exactly the same.

I think that in this Sanchez has learned the lesson of Ali: let Foreman try to hit you for several rounds, knowing that as he touches you once you really go to the ground, and when the man can no longer with his arms , when you have taken it to exhaustion, then attack. And to exhaustion they have taken us, no doubt.

I have said apparently because it seems clear that both Citizens and We can ask for the vote so that they then translate it for a yes with an adversary or preposition. "Yes, but ..." Or "Yes, for ..." To monitor it and stir it from the communist side, to control it and to make a handbrake from the liberal side.

It is quite paradoxical that such a complex society ends up solving everything with a yes or no, and there are no more alternatives for adversaries that we throw. It is obvious that our electoral system is very old - ours and that of almost everyone - and that the only possibility to rejuvenate it is to unblock the lists, to try to push football policy away as much as possible, since it is well known , one cannot be both Betis and Sevilla, that is, it cannot be 40% of Betis and 60% of Sevilla.

So that choosing legislative representation does not become what it has been, that is, an act of sports spectator, it would be good if one could divide his vote as he would like: give for example 50% to some, 25% to others, a 12.5% ​​to those, and another 12.5% ​​to these. Even just give 50% of your vote to one candidate and the other 50% to abstention.

I will be told that this would make counting very complex, which I would say very little about how much technology has made it easy for us to make accounts. That same tactic would work perfectly for a real referendum, I do not say in Catalonia, if they ever became able to organize it according to law - for which they have no choice but to change the Constitution -: I could understand without difficulty someone who He is 60% sure of the need for independence that afflicts a territory, but he carries 40% of insecurity that makes him lean towards no, and I don't know why he should not reflect that internal division in his vote. What leader are you going to vote for? , they just asked someone on television. He no longer wonders about the leading parties. Ideologies are so - supposedly again - well distributed that we take for granted that Pedro Sánchez is progressive - seriously? - and that being progressive is healthy.

This is our main problem today: not the lack of leadership, but the multiplication of leaders to the point that they speak only of them, with the result of a domestic weakness - that they hack your smartphone because you have been so silly to give your keys to the hacker by answering a message - can lose a lot of votes to a candidate, while the fight of ideas has remained in a ride of jokes for comedians. Phrases made, common places, solutions as majestic as they are simple for very complex problems. If it is true that the political class is a mirror of the citizenship called to elect representation, we cannot be in a more depressing place.

After the last elections, with the distribution of seats in Congress, it seems already clear that Sanchez had his eyes on the next round, how to get alive to him. And he has succeeded, that seems to admit no doubts. As a strategist I do not know who is behind his tactics, but the flood of blows that have fallen for running away and grabbing the neck of the opponent to cushion the blows, has hardly diminished its effectiveness and now, in the corner, waiting for it to sound the bell for the new assault, it would be said that we already know what will happen. And if politics has become the art of emptying things to govern at the stroke of an advertising campaign, it must be recognized that there is no better candidate than him. Getting that having copied in your doctoral thesis does not pass the least bill is an admirable thing. That a phrase like "public money is not from anyone" does not destroy the leader who says it is truly glorious. Bringing the complexity of a situation to a mere yes or no, is something that will be studied in the faculties of Political Science.

Sánchez yes, Sánchez no, Sánchez gives me absolutely the same. That is Sanchez's great victory before the election campaign begins.

Juan Bonilla is a writer.

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