This government not only does not speak with a single voice, as Sánchez promised when he presented it to the Spanish, but it also speaks with opposing voices even in matters of State.
That cacophony has not only not diminished with the approval of the Budgets
, but it is increasing.
And the alleged turn to the center that spread the Monclovita propaganda more akin to the PSOE not only has no signs of starting, but Iglesias enjoys and exploits every day with greater brazenness his status as
a key piece of the c
oalition
, launching constant challenges to other members of the Executive, aware of the lack of program and principles of Sánchez, who has no choice but to give in to pressure from Iglesias if he wants to remain in power.
That is the only thing that matters to him. Every morning a handful of ministers - those they call "moderates," with a technical profile - get up thinking
What ambush will the government's powerful sector lay on him?
, when not that other socialist sector already empowered.
The examples accumulate.
Robles, Marlaska and Escrivá blame themselves for the mismanagement of the migration crisis in the Canary Islands.
Arancha González Laya tries to put out with Morocco the fires that Iglesias sets with his support for the referendum in the Sahara.
Nadia Calviño disavows Yolanda Díaz
, which sought to impose a new rise in the minimum wage on social agents.
Iglesias has been boycotting Escrivá's minimum income model for months
, which seems doomed to relax the initial controls designed by the demagogue urgencies of the vice president.
Ábalos gives in to the attack on private property with the alibi of the paralysis of evictions promoted by Podemos, which also does not want the homeowners to be compensated, plunging the real estate market into the
legal uncertainty
and leading him into a wave of litigation.
Juan Carlos Campo does not know how to contain the desire of Iglesias to relaunch the assault on the Polish leadership of the Judiciary through the transposition of the Frankenstein majority, even if it is going beyond the Constitution and the warnings of Europe.
The decree to support the hotel industry is delayed, as is the pension reform to extend its calculation period, because Podemos does not agree either.
And Sánchez goes on TV to timidly defend the Crown while his vice president broadcasts a campaign
which compares the Headquarters of the State with the organized crime of drug trafficking.
This is today the Government of Spain. Sánchez knew that all this would happen, and that is why he confessed his insomnia at the idea of joining forces with Iglesias.
Today his insomnia belongs to all Spaniards, who attend the spectacle of the
cainism in full swing: not only against the opposition, but against a government that opposes itself
.
The most responsible ministers know that unpopular adjustment measures are going to be inevitable, because European funds are not the panacea and because we are facing the worst recession in recent Spanish history.
But Podemos is unwilling to bear the political cost of the unpopular,
because that's what they're populists for
.
And with a leadership weighed down by incompetence and sectarianism, Spain is heading straight for the caboose of Europe.
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