The consummation of Caesarism

What happened this Thursday in Congress oscillates between consensual mistreatment and the normalization of the anomaly.

Pedro Sánchez once again had his way, placing the parliamentary groups

, twisting democratic law until its denaturalization.

And not just any law, but the precept that regulates the constitutional exceptionality of the state of alarm.

Extraordinary legislation that

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Riding not six months but six days, but to which Sánchez has clung to carefully avoiding adapting the ordinary health standard to the pandemic, as requested by the opposition and he himself promised in May.

, which he now counteracts with an exceptionality of half a year without court surveillance or parliamentary control, beyond a Pyrrhic appearance every two months.

In exchange for the yes, the Caesar cedes competition to the autonomies, with the chaos of governance - "bloody madness", in the words of Felipe González - which is already assuming. The consecration of Sanchista Caesarism garnered 194 votes in favor and not a few reproaches among his own investiture partners.

But

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And by the time in a few months the Constitutional Court declares null this legal loss that is the result of the cowardice of a single man, that man will already be engaged in another screen, in another ruse, in another blackmail. After unilaterally adopting the most recent decision despotic among the many that are remembered,

to hear his squire, an Illa burned by his lies and his ineptitude who attacked the opposition - taking off the mask of a calm minister who listens to scientists - and tried to justify the legal outrage by agitating his own victimization and fear of a second wave in whose prevention

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When he finished speaking and Casado went to the platform, Sánchez got up and left.

The image of his empty armchair on the day when his own measure was debated, of profound effects on people's lives, expresses everything

, the citizens whose freedoms are now restricted, the very institution of parliamentarism and the procedures of liberal democracy. We can now criticize the different regional efforts of the health command, with the curve facing the winter escalation and the decision-making power divided into 17. We can agree in the excesses of Ayuso's eagerness to seek the constant clash with Moncloa at the cost of managerial clarity.

But

, which contrasts with the responsibility assumed in the first person by Macron or Merkel.

Not only is there no one behind the wheel in the worst of the second wave.

It is that the pilot has put his personal salvation before wear and tear when driving the passage through difficult routes.

Not without first damaging the institutional chassis of the vehicle, perhaps irreversibly.

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