When a government so weak and mortgaged is placed at the head of the Nation that validates blackmail as an instrument of parliamentary transaction, attacks on the cohesion of the State are reached, such as that represented by Sánchez's last assignment to the PNV . Its six seats seem essential - although insufficient - so that the Government can carry out some Budgets that screw it in Moncloa. And Arana's heirs have been able to charge their support dearly, tearing the president away from what they had not been able to dream of in the last 40 years: the transfer to the Basque Country of penitentiary competition and the management of Social Security . The latter was the only great matter with which no one had yet lobbied in this realm of taifa because of the serious consequences it will bring.

Moncloa yields no less than 14 new transfers to the Basque nationalists that will materialize progressively until 2021. The state's competitive emptying in the Basque Country is already almost total. The PNV thus accelerates in its undisputed roadmap towards independence , without the need for self-determination consultations or embarking on coup processes.

First of all, it is quite obscene that the Executive gives this extraordinary electoral trick to a rival party, in this case, the PNV, in full campaign for the April elections. Remember that the Basque Government is technically in office. Sanchez has not even waited to negotiate these issues with an interlocutor at least backed by the polls - Urkullu was not going to be less than Torra -. Humiliating even his PSE teammates, he has campaigned for the lehendakari, who sees how Moncloa becomes his lifeguard at its lowest moment due to his lousy management of the Zaldibar landfill crisis .

A competition such as that of prisons in the hands of nationalism is a mockery of the criminal unit of Spain, as is well seen in Catalonia, where the Government already controls prisons, with those convicted of 1-O , favored by an unbearable regime impunity. But the transfer of Social Security management threatens the future well-being of all Spaniards, since it will result in more inequality , as is the case with the regional privilege regime. Sanchez is justified by saying that "the single box is not broken". Sure, as if the PNV was silly. With an annual deficit of around 4,000 million euros in pensions , the Basque Country needs the Government of Spain to continue ensuring its payment to retirees. For the Autonomous Executive, it is enough for now to control all the economic, material and personal means of Social Security - how many thousands more officials in the hands of the PNV. The rest will be coming, in time. The peneuvistas rub their hands thinking what to ask Sanchez the next round.

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