The only European president who has replaced decision-making with a European tour is called Pedro Sánchez.

Every day that passes the street gets hotter,

the carriers' strike not only does not decline, as the Government expected, but also adds supporters

, the threat of shortages takes shape on the supermarket shelves and the lack of specificity of the measures shuffled by the Executive to calm things down produce the opposite effect.

And meanwhile, Sánchez accumulates defeats in

his tour of Europe, which seems to be motivated by more personal than national interests.

If Sánchez revealed his concern about the energy problems that are putting our country

at the edge of collapse

, would stop obstinately on the date of March 29 and would already adopt palliative measures.

There have been so many swerves that characterize his style of government that no one understands that he is reluctant to hit a new correction when the food chain shows signs of exhaustion.

Emblematic companies such as Danone warn that they will have to stop production

.

There are restaurants that remove fish from the menu, and the prospect of a total strike becomes more likely with each passing hour in the face of government passivity.

Direct aid through bonuses shared between the State and the oil companies do not convince the strikers, who demand

tax reductions such as those adopted in other countries around us.

Instead of that, the Executive insists on criminalizing the protest stating that it is encouraged by the extreme right, on not meeting with the sector that really represents those most affected by the rise in fuel prices and on delaying the assumption of its responsibility.

He entrusts everything to the rescue of the European chancelleries, as if each one in Europe did not take care of solving their own domestic problems

.

And as if Sánchez's tour, in fact, was not ending with a resounding failure to date in terms of the proposal to cap prices or decouple the price of gas.

"Votes of confidence" are not requested, as the government is desperately doing, when its president is abroad trying to overcome the rejection of the European powers.

Trust is built with loyalty to the given word and with that leadership that is supposed to be refined in adversity.

But Sánchez seems convinced that the ideal form of leadership is scared when they are badly given.

It happened in the pandemic, when he resorted to the so-called co-governance to socialize his responsibility, and it is happening with the energy crisis, when he appeals to Europe to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.

There is a fiscal margin that the Executive can and should use to relieve the taxpayer's pockets

, where the revenue surplus that the State pockets thanks to inflation is coming from.

But it seems that Moncloa is more interested in arbitrating subsidies that generate electoral dependency charged to more debt.

When the tenth day of the strike begins, the following continues to grow and the responses continue to decrease.

The

presidential escapism

it is a sign of moral cowardice, but above all of political myopia.

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