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Updated Saturday, February 17, 2024-00:03

The elections to the Parliament of Galicia tomorrow test the power project and the commitment to Spain led by

Pedro Sánchez

. The president is rehearsing for the first time in an autonomous community, and with the amnesty on the table,

the frontist model that was deployed on 23-J

, based on the submission of his party to the independence movement as a means to isolate the PP. This strategy has been proven in a particularly graphic way in Galicia. There the PSOE has not only renounced leading the "plur bloc

"national", but has even ordered its strategists to work to strengthen the options of

Ana Ponton

, as we have revealed in an exclusive that marked the campaign. The PSOE's bet is that the one who governs Galicia is the BNG, a party twinned with EH Bildu and ERC that demands the right to self-determination.

The campaign ended yesterday after a few turbulent days. The Government, suffocated by the demands of Carles Puigdemont, will try to disguise the

collapse that the polls predict for the PSdeG

. But it is the fruit of a conscious decision: the president has chosen to secure power in La Moncloa at the cost of sacrificing his party in the country as a whole. The PSOE is today a wasteland in a good part of the autonomous communities, and acts as an auxiliary force for nationalisms wherever they have penetration. Also in Catalonia, where the socialists are held down by ERC and Junts.

The polls suggest, however, that Alfonso Rueda will revalidate the absolute majority that he inherited from Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Not without obstacles: while BNG, PSdeG and Sumar act as a front, Vox has tried to erode them in a strategy that can only contribute to the formation of a

multiparty chaired by Pontón.

The PP gave the opportunity to delve into this wear and tear by revealing that it studied for 24 hours the amnesty that Junts demanded in the summer, and that a "conditional pardon" could be proposed for Puigdemont. The Government has twisted this clumsiness to the point of absurdity, attempting to morally and politically equate Feijóo and Sánchez, when it is evident that it was the latter who accepted the escapee's offer and who, precisely for that reason, is president. In any case, both leaders will be concerned tomorrow, since Feijóo needs an absolute majority to shore up his internal leadership.

The Galicians, in short, not only decide about their community, but about the future of our country as a common project. A Galicia in the hands of the BNG, added to Catalonia and the Basque Country, would reinforce the demands of the independence movement and its capacity for blackmail. It is hidden from no one that the PSOE's bet is the confederal mutation towards a Spain that privileges the citizens of the nationalist regions and tramples on the rights of those who do not share the fever of identity.

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