Critical hours are lived for Catalonia and for all of Spain. It would be a dramatic mistake to consider the spiral of organized violence that is sabotaging coexistence in Catalonia as a passing episode that will dissipate as soon as a few more days have elapsed since the sentence was published. It is not at all an end point, but another starting point to relaunch the frontal challenge against the State. They said they would do it again and they didn't lie . Enough of real or imposted naiveties: the Catalan separatism that dominates both the institutions and the street is taking advantage of the sentence to enliven the coup and resolve the hegemony of ERC or the Puigdemont party within the movement. The hostages of this confrontation are all the citizens of Catalonia , who are watching their streets burn, their highways cut, their universities boycotted. A French tourist who suffered from the heart has died as a result of a heart attack caused by riots in El Prat. The wounded and detained are counted by tens. The so-called Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) presume to have embarked on a "path of no return" and call for new raids. Police and Mossos, whose boss resigned before being involved in another insurrection, were overwhelmed by the incendiary mob, when they are not connivent with the pickets. The strike scheduled for Friday threatens to unleash the chaos. And Quim Torra, the head of the revolt, the same individual who presides over the Generalitat and the highest representative of the State in the Catalan autonomous community, harangues the CDR and leaves government meetings to join in cutting roads under the pretext that he must «Being next to the people». Of the people who pursue secession through subversive ways. He has never been on the side of non-independence Catalans.

Given all this, we wonder what Sanchez expects to act. Why he issued a statement acknowledging the outbreak of "widespread violence" and warned of the firmness in the response "if necessary", to run to rectify the position half an hour later by removing the videos of violence he had spread. We wonder what Sanchez unit claims if when the opposition gives it he stands still. Why summons, in an exercise of responsibility, Pablo Casado, Albert Rivera and Pablo Iglesias and proclaims that he does not rule out any scenario if at the same time Meritxell Batet, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and José Luis Ábalos go out to categorically rule out that the Government is going to apply 155 or the National Security Law, or if the Executive folds unacceptably to the pressure to change the date of the League match between Barça and Real Madrid. We wonder why Sanchez, such a friend of theatricalizing his power, at the decisive hour is not able to get down from the muses to the theater and exercise that power for the sake of the freedom and security of citizens.

We can think of only one answer to the doubts Sánchez exhibits: he fears the political cost of restoring public order in Catalonia. But he is president rather than candidate. He may lose the support of independentistas and populistas, the same ones who brought him to power in the motion of censure and with those he governs in Navarra, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community. In Catalonia, yesterday's decision by Quim Torra to take charge of the CDR marches had the virtue of visualizing that those who encourage violent protests are the partners of the PSC in the Diputación de Barcelona and in 43 municipalities . Casado and Rivera have been asking Sanchez for months to break up such toxic companies and return to constitutionalism. But a constitutionalist cannot doubt which is the right way . Sanchez must stop speculating with the 10-N, because that excess calculation is precisely the cause of his decline in the polls, including that of EL MUNDO. You must offer security and live up to the circumstances.

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