The moment of truth has sounded: the distribution of political power is in the hands of the citizens. Given that liberal democracies contemplate the periodic holding of free elections whose final result no one can know in advance, there are many public officials – not forgetting relatives and beneficiaries of patronage networks – who today hold their breath. And although the demoscopic companies subtract much suspense to the day, there we have the general ones held in Greece

To remind us that they do not always get it right: their wide forks leave room for surprise.

Especially since there has been little room to gauge whether some of the scandals that have erupted during the last week – including the alleged buying of votes in Melilla and Mojácar – will influence those voters who could still change their ballot or stay at home; if there are any. Needless to say, many others have been tried to buy in only a slightly more subtle way: in Moncloa they have come to be proud of those "election Tuesdays" – so baptized so that no one can be deceived – that have allowed Pedro Sánchez to exercise in propaganda for the fact. That is: while he goes through life with the BOE in hand, his rivals limit themselves to speaking from the podium.

That very thing – talking – is what those of us who in one way or another dedicate ourselves to commenting on political reality have been doing. Everything has been said: that Moncloa did wrong by giving national prominence to the municipal ones and that Feijóo was wrong to turn them into a plebiscite on Sánchez; that the Valencian autonomous community will measure the success or failure of the big parties and that to maintain such a thing is absurd; that the municipal lists of Bildu will punish the Government and that they will not do it at all. Opinion is not an exact science! Add to this the stories that the parties disseminate before the elections - in order to modulate the expectations of the voter - and the assessments that they will begin to make as soon as the results are known: a fierce war of interpretations that will be waged already thinking about the general elections.

But all that noise will cease for the duration of the count: the party of democracy is a silent film. It remains to be seen if it ends badly for the Government, in the manner of a reality check that destroys the communicative mesh woven by Moncloa, or if Sánchez saves the furniture and with it the possibility of the remake of Frankenstein. No one knows: enjoy while you can.