The consultations to the militancy launched by PSOE, Podemos and ERC under the false appearance of abiding by the opinion of their bases about a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez delve into a plebiscitary reinvention of the policy whose benefits, if they exist, are to be demonstrated . It is already doubtful that the primaries, imported from a presidential culture outside our parliamentary system, have revealed themselves as a mechanism capable of decanting the most meritocratic leaderships; rather, it is the most demagogic profile that ends up imposing itself. And this plebiscitary drift works like a trickster alibi to legitimize the decisions made beforehand and alone by the head of the acronym.

After his return to the general secretariat on the back of a populist speech, Sanchez rounded out the vicious circle that we just described by remaking the party's statutes so as not to have to submit his personal decisions to the examination of the internal organs That was how on the same election night , confirmed the loss of 760,000 votes, and fearing that he would begin to question the suitability of his candidacy, Sanchez decided to agree with Podemos even if it meant an amendment to the entirety of his speech. He moved so quickly and discreetly that the majority of his party partners - including Government - learned through the means of the coalition pact with Iglesias. Subsequently, this agreement was offered for the approval of the militancy, which yesterday had to answer a question in which the answer was already invoked invoking a generic progressivism to which no one can refuse . All this without providing the key information: the dependence of an ERC so grown that, after knowing that it will force the Socialists to sit at a negotiating table with the 1-O architect, he raised the bet even more and claimed nothing less than a dialogue "between governments".

In Podemos, a party reduced to diarrhea formed by Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero, all the plebiscitary logic has been perverted since they took their registered hostages to blackmail them with their resignation if they did not approve the acquisition of their luxury home in Galapagar. But from the party of Ramón Rubial and Felipe González, one could expect some more resistance to Sanchista lamination.

As for ERC, the bias in the literalness of his question to the militancy in his consultation tomorrow seems to seek a refusal that allows those of Rufián to excuse himself in the bases before Sánchez and Iglesias and at the same time not to go through collaborators of Spanishism before the Separatist public opinion in a probable electoral context. In all cases, we are faced with a cowardly model of exercising leadership, allergic to responsibility, fearful of the confrontation of ideas and favoring a child caudillismo that distances the leaders from the decisions weighed. This is how democracy is eroding .

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