After finishing a round of consultations in which he has received almost twenty political forces in just two days, the King yesterday commissioned Pedro Sánchez to form the Government . In strict compliance with the constitutional provisions, Felipe VI has applied article 99 of the Magna Carta - which regulates the investiture procedure - preserving its neutrality. Sanchez, after his premature embrace with Pablo Iglesias, rushed into the search for support without waiting to receive the formal order of the King. Now he faces his third investiture debate trying to mask his assignments to independence with a two-way distraction maneuver. First, staging a meeting with Casado and Arrimadas after weeks of contempt for the opposition and, above all, calling all the regional presidents in an exercise to dilute the restitution of the institutional relationship with Torra . It is hypocritical, as well as deeply irresponsible, to appeal to constitutional concord while restoring the dialogue with them who perpetrated the separatist coup in Catalonia.

The return to Pedralbes places Sanchez closer to retaining power, but gives the keys of the government to an escapee like Puigdemont and a convicted person for sedition like Junqueras . The alliance with Podemos and the assignments to the separatists - including Bildu - without them renouncing the self-determination worries millions of citizens, alarms the markets and pulverizes the State's action to face the sovereign challenge. Although now try to appear the search for agreements with PP and Citizens, the reality is that you have already chosen partners. And the chosen route not only does not guarantee stability, but it violates basic consensus by legitimizing the coup plotters.

The consultations with the King, which ERC declined to attend, have served to certify that Sanchez does not have his investiture shielded. If it fails, it should give way to another candidate. However, there is still room to explore a parliamentary majority that avoids making the Executive hostage of seditious . This does not exempt the president of the PP from criticism for his immobility. The big parties must be aware of the seriousness of the steps that are being taken and act accordingly. Not only the government is at stake, but the maintenance of the solid constitutional architecture that has provided the greatest period of freedom and progress in the history of Spain. In this trance, there are no partisan fiddles but only a height of sight to reach transversal and draft agreements. Just the opposite that Sanchez is preparing to perpetrate in the face of the complicit silence of the entire PSOE. .

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