The chain of nonsense known as the Pegasus case had its final fireworks yesterday in Congress, when Sánchez appeared forced by the parliamentary groups to explain a management that has achieved an impossible: to outrage constitutionalism and independence at the same time.
Instead of defending our security officials from the outset,
the government bought into the fallacious narrative of separatist victimhood in order to be forgiven for what does not need forgiveness
: to protect the State from those who attack it and express their will to continue doing so.
Such a reversal of values can only be explained by the founding vice that sanchismo drags along: making the governability of Spanish democracy depend, out of sheer desire for power, on the votes of its enemies.
Sánchez's intervention would not surprise anyone who regularly follows the government control sessions, which the government systematically converts the opposition into control sessions, in the hope that a good attack is the best defense even against the indefensible.
Sánchez believes that by dusting off the corruption cases that affected the PP a decade ago, he will be able to blur his responsibility before his partners, when the truth is that they do not ask him what he did wrong: what he did well bothers them.
Because
the purged director of the CNI showed that she acted under the strict protection of the law and judicial protection
.
But Sánchez gave his head to secessionism to try to placate him, in addition to promising them the declassification of official secrets and now a reform of the CNI that supposes a new signaling and further undermines the reputation of the agency that watches over the security of the Spanish.
That the intelligence agents are reduced to a bargaining chip in the desperate rescue of himself with which Sánchez reacts to the extortion of ERC or Bildu is humiliating.
Because he doesn't pay for it: all citizens and the very image of Spain pay for it.
It is not the CNI that asks to be reformed: it is the independentistas, perpetrators of a sedition, who need to be reformed.
Instead of demanding it,
the president tries to convince them and convince us all that he knew nothing about the espionage
of separatist leaders, as if the CNI acted on its own when Barcelona burned in 2019 due to the violence unleashed by Tsunami Democràtic.
Sánchez himself incurred in contradiction: first he denied that he knew the objectives of the surveillance and later he ended up admitting to ERC that something had to be done when the separatist commandos tried to block the El Prat airport and sabotaged the highways.
The same argument used by Margarita Robles before giving up.
Beyond the institutional loss of prestige and the crisis of confidence with the partners of the government coalition, the blundering management of
the Pegasus case
has hit the electoral expectations of the PSOE.
Demoscopic studies estimate that only because of this episode the Government
has lost a point and a half of voting intention
in the Andalusian pre-campaign.
Socialist voters do not excuse everything, although Sánchez seems to treat them as undiscerning captives.
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