The reform of sedition that the Government has spread in full negotiation with the PP on the Judiciary has not only caused the dialogue to break down -with the very reasonable condition that this reform is withdrawn-, but it does not have a minimum support of citizens, not even among socialist voters.

The data from the Sigma Dos survey published today by EL MUNDO are revealing in this regard, pointing out that the reform is only supported by 19.9% ​​of Spaniards, a percentage that rises to 30% when those who respond are the voters of the PSOE.

57% of citizens and 49% of socialist voters are clearly against it.

Nobody can be surprised by this result.

Five years after 1-O, many Spaniards have an indelible memory of the commotion of those days and the risk to our democracy and the well-being of the entire country.

And while it is true that Pedro Sánchez has displayed a political alliance with the independence movement since the beginning of his mandate, which reached its zenith with the pardons, it is no less so than a large part of his electorate and his party remains very sensitive to transfers. to separatism, no matter how much they have been a constant since the PSOE returned to La Moncloa.

Several leaders and not a few militants frequently express their discomfort over the pacts with ERC or EH Bildu, and the reform of sedition should not be an exception if they do not want to appear complicit.

First, because it is a legislation elaborated with the purpose of favoring political allies before the Justice that opens a dark legal path.

And second, because it is inexplicable that the Government has launched itself to promote such a reform in full negotiation with the PP, from which a State pact for Justice was supposed to come out.

The arguments put forward by the PSOE could not be less convincing and the Sigma Dos poll is proof of this.

The first is that in Europe crimes similar to sedition are punished with lower penalties, something that would not in itself justify the haste to announce the reform of sedition right now, but which has also already been dismantled by the Supreme Court, which found in its report against pardons that in the main European countries the penalties for this type of crime are higher.

The second argument is purely political: ERC claimed it as compensation for its support for the Budgets.

And it is also purely implausible.

No one imagines the Republicans knocking down the government's accounts at this time and forcing general elections, especially when they have remained in the minority in the Catalan Parliament after their break with JxCat and it is foreseeable that they will need the support of the PSC there.

There is, therefore, neither social demand nor political justification for such a reduction in sedition.

It is the obligation of all constitutionalists to point this out and not ignore that majority of Spaniards who do not want more concessions to independence.

They are of the party that are.

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