There is no institution safe from Pedro Sánchez

crawls and drags us

, hostage to the separatist demands, met another milestone in his particular history of infamy on Tuesday.

The dismissal -

would say "substitution" - of the head of the intelligence services to satisfy

is the story of a chain of nonsense in which incompetence rivals treason.

It all started when the academic environment of

, which

is waiting to know his judicial fate when the

pronounce definitively on the

, collaborated in the preparation of a rigorous fasting report for Citizen Lab, later used by a journalist with a dubious career to publish a

in

, where an alleged espionage to the Catalan independentistas with the

Pegasus.

Separatism then ran to shout to the heavens, in a calculated ceremony of overacting that forced

to interpret his break with Sánchez so as not to lose the electoral favor of secessionism against

.

Opinion

Run the mile.

A crude and implausible maneuver

• Drafting:

  RAFA LATORRE

A crude and implausible maneuver

Unwillingly.

Margaret, a phenomenon

• Drafting:

  SANTIAGO GONZALEZ

Margaret, a phenomenon

Sánchez sent his fire minister to

to try to put out the fire the way he knows how: giving in to blackmail.

he promised the separatists to declassify documents and put the anti-system in the

.

For it

twisted the rules of Congress and dynamited the penultimate

in order to seat Bildu, ERC or the CUP in that commission, where the director of the CNI proved the judicial protection of their actions.

But it didn't matter:

.

Not only by the enemies of the State, but by the Government.

But since separatism - emboldened by the success of its blackmail - did not relax the pressure,

He devised a script twist by which he publicly announced that the cell phones of Sánchez and Robles had been spied on.

It was about

, unique case in the world: a president confesses his weakness to be forgiven for the surveillance he authorized.

The same government that considered those under surveillance a threat to national security chose them days later as preferred partners.

They had been spied on for good reason: their

of self-determination, his contacts with the

, his responsibility in the urban violence unleashed by the Tsunami Democràtic.

Such reasons were invoked by Robles from his seat, in a display of institutional dignity that has lasted a few days.

Because this Tuesday, at the press conference of the Council of Ministers,

of selfish calculation and expressive clumsiness.

Robles agreed to hand over the innocent head of Paz Esteban (the protection of government mobiles was not his responsibility, but the Presidency's) in exchange for silence, applause, threading cantinflesque euphemisms to cover the embarrassment of Esteban's sacrifice - of which he said: " He has to put up with stoically accusations that do not correspond to reality" - and above all put his right hand in his place.

In this way, Robles loses all moral authority, she renounces the role of loyal servant of the State that she always claimed and bows to a

for the preservation of his boss's chair and his own, at the price of beheading and

on the eve of a decisive NATO summit.

Robles' situation today is effectively unsustainable, but not for the reasons that Podemos and the separatists allege, but rather because

.

But neither will he achieve the mercy of ERC nor the pardon of constitutionalism: his position within the Government has lost meaning for both.

In the end he will lose the position after having lost the honor.

This is how sanchismo works

.

He will continue to degrade one institution after another until the ballot box allows the Spanish to rescue them from Sánchez.

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