Why has it attracted so much attention to us that two politicians walk hand

in

hand,

united in disgrace,

and even more so being from opposite parties?

(While the German Chancellor belongs to the Cristina Democratic Union, Dreyer is from the Social Democratic party).

Because we are more used, at least in Spain, to the

weekly

fights

in the control session to the Government in Congress, to the phrases and thick words that one and the other say, and even to somewhat obscure actions between parties.

But the photo of Merkel and Dreyer has much more crumb than what is seen at first and can be analyzed from different angles.

According to

Amable Cima, professor of Psychology at CEU San Pablo University, we

must take into account what we have set ourselves - "it is the result of

an emotional act, a reflex act that shows union in the face of adversity and empathy

with

others.

who suffer "-, and in what we have not stopped:

" Malu Dreyer suffers from multiple sclerosis

and needed help to walk through destroyed streets. What should be noted in this is that, despite being ill, she is still president of this land ".

Women and men

No one can imagine two male politicians starring in such a gesture. So does it have to do with the fact that both Angela Merkel and Dreyer are women? No, according to Professor Cima, who clarifies: "Although as a general rule women are more empathetic, if two men had been in the same situation they would have gone hand in hand, as long as they had put aside political quarrels, because both they would share the pain of the devastation. "

In summary,

"men are less effusive but there is a similar behavior pattern"

in certain grief situations, says the expert.

Situations such as those experienced in Spain, for example, when the kidnapping and murder of

Miguel Ángel Blanco by ETA or Gregorio Ordóñez took place,

when union and emotional reactions were seen between politicians of different ideologies, recalls

Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna , Professor of Political Communication at CEU San Pablo University.

Pedro Sánchez and Isabel Díaz Ayuso in their meeting at Moncloa on July 9.

Something that the two experts agree on is that Merkel's gesture

was not premeditated,

but rather an "emotional and sincere reaction," says Ruiz de la Serna, who emphasizes the past of the German Chancellor, who has probably done it. be more sensitive than other people.

Coming from the defunct German Democratic Republic,

"she has experienced traumas that lead her to be personally moved

and to be politically forced to overcome differences."

Better people

This gesture has undoubtedly earned Angela Markel points in the eyes of many, despite the fact that she is already retiring from her career.

So is it a better policy to behave like this in public?

A question to which the two experts again respond in the same way:

"No, he's a better person."

As Amable Cima explains, "both are better people because they put their quarrels on hold to join. What is clear," he says, "is that

a bad person ends up being a bad politician."

Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna pronounces himself in the same sense when he indicates that "rather Merkel makes that gesture because it

is a great policy,

if it were mediocre she would not have done it. His is one of the great names in European politics in recent years. 25 years old. That is why he

knows how to measure up, it

is in situations like this that his greatness emerges. "

Brezhnev, the most affectionate politician

We have seen very few gestures of affection or even humanity among politicians.

In a humorous way, however, we remember the famous three kisses that the Soviet leader

Leonidas Brezhnev

gave

- one on each cheek and one on the lips - when greeting, feared among many leaders of the time.

Head of State of the USSR and general secretary of the Communist Party between 1964 and 1982, his particular way of defusing the cold war was based on kisses. Neither the Palestinian leader

Yasir Arafat

nor the Indian

Prime

Minister

Indira Gandhi

nor, of course, the rulers of the satellite countries, such as the Yugoslav

Tito

, the German

Erich Honecker

or the Romanian

Ceaucescu,

got rid of them

.

They were smarter

Fidel Castro

who, knowing what awaited the arrival in Moscow of Havana, got off the plane with a cigar that was not removed from the mouth until he finished the round of greetings, and American

Jimmy Carter,

who managed to Brezhnev's famous greeting will be only two kisses and will not touch his lips.

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