Provocation as a government strategy

Yesterday, the President of the Government's appearance at the end of the course became a

that has marked his public interventions in the last month and with which he tries to reap the revenue that the polls deny him.

Deserting the moderation that the chief executive is supposed to have and the PSOE's traditional position on the political spectrum,

, with which he seeks to feed the prefabricated character to face the debacle in Andalusia and the very difficult academic year that will begin in the autumn, marked by inflation and the risk of recession.

In a

that could be expected from a European head of government, Sánchez directly attacked Ana Botín (Santander), Ignacio Sánchez Galán (Iberdrola) or Antonio Garamendi (CEOE).

It is not new that the president resorts to the electoral posture of attacking large companies, in a cyclical return to the discourse of the "hidden powers", of dark right-wing and far-right interests, "who are making money from the war."

In this way, the president seeks

.

Yesterday, minutes before his appearance, the inflation data was known:

, the highest value since 1984, in proof of the inability of the Executive to deal with truly effective measures to the genuine concern of citizens.

On the contrary, the president did not use a single minute of his speech to acknowledge any responsibility of his Government in the delicate economic situation facing Spain, reducing the issue to the effects of the war in Ukraine.

The president seems to forget that

, and also ignored the insistent warnings from the community institutions, the Bank of Spain and the AIReF about the urgent need to implement structural changes to tackle the exorbitant public deficit and indebtedness.

Instead, Pedro Sánchez reproduced the customary triumphalist speech, ignoring measures that could represent relief for the lowest incomes, such as, for example, the deflation of the personal income tax rate that six communities have already accepted.

All in all, yesterday's intervention will be mainly remembered for

.

The president announced that individuals will have to apply energy saving measures that at the moment extend to transport, work centers and businesses open to the public, in addition to all administrations.

To set an example, he frivolously encouraged dressing without a tie, and in fact that is how he appeared before the press.

Minutes later, however,

to travel to the nearby Torrejón de Ardoz base.

Inconsistency and contradiction.

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