Pedro Sánchez consummated yesterday in the Economy Circle of Catalonia
the grossest cover-up of the pardons
to the independence prisoners that we have seen so far.
After making use of
the
economic
establishment
to, contrary to citizen sentiment and judicial criteria, whitewash the ignominious measure of collective grace, now it intends to hide it under the umpteenth conjurer trick from the La Moncloa factory.
Thus, taking advantage of the positive trend
that continues the pandemic -and not exactly because of the government management-, has announced with great fanfare the end of the mask abroad.
This triumphalism, which he also manifested in the economic field, contrasts with the prudence that Mario Draghi maintained.
And it recalls the propaganda attitude with which, just a year ago, he announced the end of the pandemic in July and encouraged Spaniards to enjoy the summer.
Certainly, today, with the advance of vaccination, everything suggests that the circumstances exist to free us from the mask in certain social contexts.
However, the question that a good part of society should ask is the following:
Why on the 26th it will be possible to walk down the street without a mask and not tomorrow?
The answer seems simple: because it will be precisely at that time when pardons are expected to be granted to those convicted of the
you process
.
At this point, no one is surprised by the obscene tacticism behind every decision of the president and his advisers.
Just a few weeks ago we published a field work by the demographic company Sigma Dos that confirmed how, despite the Executive's attempts to justify the pardons, public opinion was against it, with an overwhelming opposition of 61%.
Hence for
try to appease that adverse climate
try to ingratiate yourself with citizens by announcing a measure with broad social support, such as the lifting of the mandatory nature of masks.
But not even this approach to normality will make the Spaniards forget the separatist disloyalty.
If Sánchez's intention is to make us believe that the worst of the secessionist challenge has passed and that the attack on our democracy must be forgiven without repentance or amendment, he is wrong.
Unfortunately for them, it is the independentistas themselves who are in charge of showing that nothing has changed in their intentions.
Just yesterday, the Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró, returned to the infamous song of the "oppressive state", and without reboot denounced the "vassalage" of Catalonia with Spain.
We return to the starting point: the constant
public humiliation
to the rest of Spaniards, despite which they receive the pardon without renouncing their plan.
But if in 2017 the sedition collided with the constitutionalist unity, today their sovereignist victimhood has the conchabeo and the permission of Moncloa, who needs them.
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