Moncloa gets what he had gone for with his provocation

The image that this Tuesday could see all of Spain of the Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolaños, secretly moving the catenary to colarsand surreptitiously in the entourage that accessed the tribune of authorities of the parade of May 2 in Madrid should be unbecoming of a member of the Government. In any case, it is also the most eloquent evidence of the bad faith and the spirit of provocation that has moved Moncloa in this episode, aimed at polarizing the 28-M campaign and agitating the mobile

A delectorate diagnosed with dysthymia due to the lack of enthusiasm it arouses

The foreseeable response of the regional executive was to prevent, even physically opposing, that the minister altered in a surprising way, on the fly, the organization of the act, in which the institutional representation of the State Government was guaranteed in the person of the Minister of Defense,

The "under no circumstances" that the head of Protocol of the Community repeated again and again to Bolaños synthesizes the political message of the response of

that nowhere is written the right of the minister to impose his presence on the podium and that no one, therefore, could expect anything else from it than

thus taking advantage in fair reciprocity of the opportunity to be launched towards the absolute majority in the 28-M as a champion of anti-Sanchismo. If anyone was badly wounded, it was the one who was wrong.

The sequence of events leaves little doubt about the origin and initiative of the provocation. The Government of the Puerta del Sol initially invited the Minister of Territorial Policy,

and then added Robles to her polite claim, pertinent, since the parade includes a military parade. That is, the same forecast as the last year that May 2 was held with a president of the PP in Moncloa: in 2018 they attended

and

Isabel Rodríguez declined to attend and delegated in Bolaños, without that figure of the delegation being contemplated in any norm and

The Minister for the Presidency addressed the Community not to request its presence, but

which motivated the first protests of Sol, who still maintained institutional decorum and reserved a space in the front row for the minister to follow the ceremony. Bolaños began his maneuver

And while it is true that the Community again could have yielded to avoid an embarrassing confrontation, it is also true that the government has no right to protest at having

It has no other political culture than that of conflict.