• We can. Churches recriminates Sánchez who is not "responsible" and postpones contacts with him until day 10
  • Council of Ministers.The Government believes that Podemos cannot reject an agreement that includes part of its program

The American linguist George Lakoff left the academic world and became famous on the world political scene for his work Do not think of an elephant , in which he explained why the Republicans had won the game to the Democrats by setting the mental frameworks of the national debate and electoral. In another, much more complex book, written with the philosopher Mark Johnson and titled Metaphors of everyday life , he gathers more broadly the role of language in human relationships. According to Lakoff, "the metaphor is not only a resource of poetic imagination", but "permeates everyday life, thought and action." And details an example. "An argument is a war." The war language of the discussion is not rhetorical, it is literal. «We see the person as an enemy, an opponent, we attack their positions, we defend ours, we destroy their argument, we shoot, we annihilate, we gain ground, we lose it, we establish lines of attack, indefensible positions, we plan strategies». The metaphor thus structures the actions we execute when discussing, language affects the way we think and act.

Similarly, the metaphors of the language of Spanish politics structure a performance whose end cannot be other than the repetition of general elections. The fear of what the Spaniards will say at the polls no longer seems enough argument to deter political parties. An argument is a war. Spanish politics is also a war that is running out of the possibility of a truce negotiation, a ceasefire, an investiture or a viable government. The last warrior metaphor of the political debate in times of blockade is surrender , as before it was pressure or game of the hen . The current framework to avoid the elections has been reduced to Pablo Iglesias surrendering, leave with the white flag of Galapagar and admit sitting at the PSOE table to sign the document that Pedro Sánchez will present to him with a government program that he cannot refuse . The coalition government train only passes once, as the spokeswoman, Isabel Celaá, and United Podemos said, sat at the station, like Penelope de Serrat .

The current framework to avoid elections has been reduced to Pablo Iglesias surrendering

The metaphorical language of the PSOE and Unidos Podemos, added to a calendar that continues to tear off blank pages waiting for September 23 , has another appointment this week at the Plenary Session. On Thursday, Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias will go to the gallery to discuss the results of the European councils. At the expense of the miracle that has been waiting for four months, there we will again see how the language structures the political campaign campaign of the Spanish leaders. With the accompaniment of Pablo Casado, the leader who most fears an election, and Albert Rivera, who will surely return from his long vacation with more antisanchist vigor. If it fits.

The language of the calendar leads to shock. The latest speculations speak of the possibility of a last-minute negotiation, of a ceasefire in extremis . The point is that it is not known within the next three weeks what is D-day, on what date is the period of psychological pressure to reach the hypothetical agreement, where does that "last minute" of which Pablo Iglesias speaks resides. There is no, as in July, an investiture date marked in September. Could the last minute be the round of consultations that the King has planned without a specific date? Might. That round would have to be agreed so that Felipe VI could entrust the endowment to Pedro Sánchez. And even then the votes of United We could not be enough. It would also require the abstention of CKD, unpredictable because the Diada coincides in the middle of the calendar towards other general elections. At the moment, the acting president of the Government is not officially a candidate for anything, although he has the calendar management and is exercising it strategically so that it seems to move without actually moving. There is nothing more like a government president than another government president. And Sánchez is doing something similar to what Mariano Rajoy did in the period that was from the December 2015 elections to the June 2016 elections. Wait for the days to pass.

The PSOE believes that such a government born would only postpone the polls a few months

The performance of Unidos Podemos, both in regard to the sharp criticism against the Government for its management of the Open Arms and the extravagant situation of La Rioja, provides quite tasty arguments to Sanchez to definitely take the key to a coalition government . Some purple theorists begin to realize that the refusal of the PSOE to govern with United We can have its foundation not in the distribution of ministries, but in a fundamental reality. The Spanish socialists are not willing to change the fundamentals of their economic policy, as would be required by the ministers of Pablo Iglesias, who would naturally obey leader Pablo Iglesias and not President Pedro Sánchez. For example. Neither repeal of the labor reform, nor intervention in the rental price. These theorists on the left place the Spanish social democracy in what they consider to be a European consensus of neoliberal economic policies.

The government train seems to travel the only way of electoral repetition. Socialists appreciate in the November 10 elections the lesser evil of this political moment. Pedro Sánchez seeks a viable government and not even the surrender of Iglesias would guarantee it. On the contrary, the PSOE believes, it would only serve to postpone a few months the call for other general elections. A Government born thanks to that surrender would remain in office. In very real metaphor.

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