The statesman sees crises as an opportunity to assess his vocation of public service and unite the nation in pursuit of the common goal;
the opportunist discovers the moment to conquer new levels of power and weaken his opposition at the cost of general confusion.
From the first moment Sánchez - for whom the exception is the norm - found in the pandemic the
opportunity to expand the power denied him by his precarious majority
: media power monopolizing television grills, political power.
ethical through the state of alarm, ideological power through the delegitimization of the discrepancy despite exhibiting the largest excess of death in the world and the largest economic collapse in the OECD. Sánchez failed first as the sole health command.
Failed when
missed the alarm to agree on a legal framework to support co-governance
.
He continued to fail when he inhibited himself during the summer when he proclaimed the virus defeated.
And it failed when it sold its Madrid summit as something more than propaganda, a mere pause to redouble the siege.
Now it tries to use the bad data of Madrid to encircle the region that symbolizes the alternative to sanchismo.During the months of confinement, Moncloa and its terminals grew tired of stating that there was no legal alternative to the state of alarm to legally sustain the
restriction of fundamental rights
.
But this Thursday the people of Madrid have had breakfast with a ministerial order that invents a non-existent consensus in the Interterritorial Council - five autonomies, the most populated, voted against - to launch a unilateral intervention on Madrid.
This radical turn from the loyalty vaunted days ago by Illa himself is evidence of the cacicada
.
Three years after the 1-O coup, the one who allied himself with the coup plotters to rise to power pretends to compare Ayuso with Puigdemont. The display of discretion consigned in the BOE barely conceals a political reason: the central government shifts the focus to the rebellious Madrid to avoid state accountability in the worst management of the continent, while
avoid assuming the brutal cost of shutting down the country's economic locomotive
via the 155 or the alarm state.
The legal hoax sought by Illa must now be confronted with the judgment of the courts, as Ayuso has announced, which otherwise - as it cannot be otherwise - has announced that it will abide by the law as long as there is no ruling against it.
When mobility was restricted in some Madrid neighborhoods, the Madrid TSJ already warned Ayuso that in order to extend these restrictions on fundamental freedoms, he must have other legal instruments. The health situation in Madrid is very worrying.
As many measures as can avoid hospital saturation should be taken now, and weigh them with the price of ruin
which would mean the closure, because that price also takes lives.
But citizens are fed up with it being camouflaged with health concerns - under what criteria from which experts? - which is nothing but arbitrariness and despotism.
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