A month before the coronavirus, Spain was a pessimistic country of happy people. Five months later, pessimism has been confirmed and there is little reason for happiness. Despite everything, as the writer Elif Shafak has said , pessimism can only lead us to anger or apathy and we must prevent the demagogues of national-populism from taking power. The pandemic also hinders the right to vote fully. Despite this, there were elections in the Basque Country and in Galicia. In the Basque Country abstention, hard nationalism and pragmatism have triumphed; in Galicia soft nationalism and sovereignty. The left sinks in both
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