If at some point it could be thought that the emergence of so many new parties was good news for liberal representative democracy because it was going to influence greater pluralism and diversity, we have long since lost that naive innocence.

Some of these formations, riding the

toxic and destructive populism

that runs through much of the world, are only helping to degrade the political space and spur the polarization in which extremists move so well to the detriment

of progress and the framework of coexistence that we have given each other.

It has a great historical responsibility Podemos in the

galloping impoverishment that our democracy is suffering

.

What you have done in the last hours

Pablo Iglesias

in order to

dynamite the campaign in the Community of Madrid

represents the absolute perversion of the rules of the game and confirms that we are before an unscrupulous leader to ruin the basic consensus required of every democrat.

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It is especially serious that, in his mad flight forward, he is dragging the socialist candidate, Gabilondo

, forced into an incomprehensible exercise of political transvestism for which he has abandoned all moderation to throw himself into the arms of a Iglesias that every day offers a worse version of himself.

The threatening letters that they have received,

Marlaska

and the director of the Civil Guard deserve a condemnation without palliative.

It is an unacceptable fact.

And it will not be this newspaper that endorses the attitude of

Rocío Monastery

, Vox candidate, at the beginning of the debate in Being. But our commitment to readers and to the truth requires us not to fall into the trap thrown by Podemos in desperation in view of the

bad results predicted by the polls

to smear everything and try to take oxygen.

Iglesias needs radicalization as the last ace.

But his new moment of glory with a theatrical and extemporaneous escape from debate, his career known, lacks the slightest credibility.

We Spaniards have been watching for many years how, for example, in the general elections or in the regional elections of the Basque Country the

Candidates of all formations are forced to confront their ideas with a party like Bildu

which still does not condemn the 850 ETA murders.

Iglesias, who in his history stands out for his praise to the band - as he reproached him in another campaign, that of 2015,

Patxi Lopez

-, for regretting the imprisonment of

Otegi

or for linking Podemos in its beginnings with illegalized pro-ETA groups, suddenly its skin is too thin.

And a

Gabilondo

without bellows follows suit.

In Catalonia, everyone is also debating with a platform that encourages violence, such as the CUP.

Or in Madrid itself We can jelly and call violent rallies against Vox like those of days ago.

Churches have no legitimacy either to stage this suffering victimhood or to give lessons in democracy.

From EL MUNDO we make, once again, an appeal to the systemic parties to return politics and, specifically, this campaign to the

rationality

and run away from the

tricky emotionality of populisms

.

It is not possible to continue to fall for the self-interested feedback of extremisms.

Gabilondo no longer has "12 days", but he does have a week to detach himself from the monster that devours his children, the Democrats.

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