Spain is changing fast.
The problem is that it is making it worse.
Much worse.
The outbreak of the pandemic coincided with the coming to power of a coalition government that for the first time included far-left populism and separatism as essential parliamentary support.
The foreseeable dysfunctions of such a combination, which
piles up all the enemies of the Constitution of the parliamentary arch,
were not hidden from Pedro Sánchez, who predicted his
pr
opium insomnia from having to ally with Podemos.
But the Spanish did not vote for him as much as he hoped, so it took him 48 hours to betray his promises and led the country to instability and extremism to stay in Moncloa.
Since then his insomnia is that of all Spaniards,
who attend with dismay the meteoric deterioration of their institutions, the Cainite division within the Executive and the general incompetence of its management in the midst of the worst recession in memory.
Fasting of a coherent political program, forced to deal with radicals that undermine the operability and rationalism of his Government, moved by a conception of power that is reduced to colonizing as soon as possible all possible instances of the public,
Sanchismo provides citizens with everyday examples of institutional degradation.
The last has been the embarrassing offense to the Crown from the television of all Spaniards regarding the formative departure of the Princess of Asturias to Wales, in the image of the one that King Felipe starred in Canada in his day.
RTVE belongs to everyone, we all pay for it, but
under the eternal, irregular and sectarian interim of Rosa María Mateo it has become a propaganda organ
more typical of tropical latitudes than of a European country.
The announced punishment of the person in charge will be of little use as long as that chain does not recover pluralism, professionalism and decorum by virtue of a structural reform of its operation that depoliticizes it once and for all.
The Catalan campaign - wild elections that are only held for the subordination of the common good to the private interest of Sánchez, a subordination embodied in Salvador Illa - is making jump the succinct threads that barely sew the precarious coalition.
Iglesias, who came from clashing with how many ministers have come up against his demagoguery, not only aligns himself with Putin to discredit Spanish democracy and join the thesis of the coup, but also
he relapses in his undercover work with a video campaign that seems designed by Spain's worst enemy, not by its vice president.
Pablo Iglesias is the most toxic black legend propagator in decades, because his paranoid verbiage does not dispense it from a marginal assembly of the faculty, which is his site, but from La Moncloa, with the cowardly approval of Sánchez.
His departure from the Executive does not guarantee that Sánchez will govern the country much better, but it is certainly a necessary condition to begin to recover credit outside our borders and to transmit some hope within them.
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