The correlation of forces that the 10-N threw has placed the Popular Party in the face of a complex dilemma. Pablo Casado sealed last Sunday a notable advance in votes and seats, but insufficient to form an alternative. This places the president of the PP before the responsibility of facilitating a socialist government or maintaining the rejection expressed in the campaign to a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. But there is a third option: the great coalition. Sanchez has proven that it is not reliable. He has repeatedly demonstrated his lack of scruples and an alarming passivity when facing the crisis of authority that our country is going through in the middle of the separatist challenge. In spite of this, this serious hour in Spain demands height of sight. The pre-agreement signed with the radical left of Podemos, conditioned to the separatist blackmail, gives the PP the opportunity to propose an ambiguous articulation of the great coalition, with power plots distributed between PSOE and PP. This has been defended by THE WORLD since the election night. Extraordinary junctures require extraordinary exits.

Some barons, such as Feijóo and Mañueco, are in favor of a "patriotic abstention." Since Sanchez is unable to build bridges with the opposition - he did not even answer Casado's call after scrutiny - the PP should take a step forward. But before someone like Sanchez it is not worth a technical abstention: it would facilitate unlocking but it would not prevent the Government from turning towards populism and sovereignty. Whenever Sanchez breaks with both, the PP should open up to join the Executive to face the slowdown and the separatist insurrection solidly. To reach out for the return of the PSOE to the constitutionalist path would raise Casado to the status of a State man, capable of putting the general interests of Spain before the short-term of those who speculate on the possible revenue that Vox would obtain from the gesture.

It is unacceptable that while the Catalan vice president demands a table of parties outside the institutions, the PSOE meets with ERC. And it is outrageous that Sanchez park his promises against secessionism while the Parliament disobeys the TC and Torra's daughter - whom Sanchez, until Sunday, did not pick up the phone - is identified in an attempt to cut the AVE. Felipe González and Ibarra are right when they join García-Page to warn of the risk of throwing themselves into the hands of separatists. A radical government of PSOE and Podemos in which ERC and the proetarras held the key poses a threat to the economy and the definitive bankruptcy of the consensus forged since 1978 . In addition to facilitating stability, an agreement of PSOE, PP and Cs would contribute to stop the escalation of the Frentista that erodes the foundations of living together. Not only the formation of government is resolved, but the restoration of concord.

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