The Ordago of Married to Vox

Immersed in the second wave of the pandemic, victim of the incompetence and sectarianism of its government, watched with concern from Europe, Spain seemed doomed to languish in the health crisis, political polarization and economic debacle.

In this context, the motion of censure against Sánchez that yesterday only managed to add Vox's votes had an official objective and another unconfessed.

The first consisted of reproaching Sánchez for his catastrophic management and his authoritarian drift, and

I understand the censorship could not be more relevant

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The second sought to weaken the PP for the benefit of the Vox candidate.

Both purposes have failed, but from that failure of Abascal emerges, more clearly than ever,

The leader of Vox, the third force in Congress, missed the opportunity to offer the Spanish a feasible and desirable program of government.

as president of the fourth euro economy.

All citizens concerned about Sánchez's despotic vocation breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that precisely the European institutions were censuring the unilateral chieftain through which Sánchez and Iglesias sought to liquidate the independence of the Judicial Power.

And those same citizens know the strategic importance of European funds to alleviate the looming economic disaster.

Nobody understands that Abascal compares the EU with the Soviet Union or Nazism;

Only this delusion would justify the opposition of the PP to his candidacy. All eyes were fixed on Casado, including Merkel's.

Neither position was comfortable for him.

And in that trance he chose the most difficult and therefore bravest way: to point out

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To date, Casado had responded with silence to the provocations and attacks by Vox, which caricatured the PP as "the cowardly right."

But it is not the constitutionalist who should be ashamed of defending the third Spain - that of all -, but the radical from both poles who must recognize their participation in the Cainite clamp that traps the future of Spain. of the decision, since Sánchez and his allies will now pressure the PP to undermine its territorial power.

But

for the remains: he no longer has the authority to demand moderation from Casado.

For the rest, the PP relies on Vox, but does not share governments with him.

It would be Abascal who would have to explain to his voters the hypothetical censorship in communities and municipalities.There is something to Vox in Casado's commitment to the principles of the best conservative liberal tradition, which does not coincide with a Spanish Trumpism.

But beyond the consequences,

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He brilliantly broke away from the trap laid by Abascal and updated the suggestive project of life in common embodied by the democracy of 78. The one that erodes a president unmasked by Europe whose alibis are running out.

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