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We do not remember how it started, but we know that Spanish policy is already basically about extending alarm states. There is debate on the extension, the debates on the extension are extended, there is speculation about its fall, speculation falls, it starts again. We don't have time to get bored because there are still many extensions to ask, debate, curse and finally approve.

For Sánchez, arriving at the morning of the debate without the support tied is a routine. I have come to the conclusion that stability bothers you. Your short term is this morning, your medium term is next week and your long term is the month you have to go to Brussels. Outside, he is completely disoriented, like when he got lost driving to Washington once. He would not know how to live keeping loyalty to the same ally without cheating on the same night of the wedding, nor could he bear to apply his own program of not being able to leave him on the spot if the amazement - his arithmetic reality - is on his heels, as De Niro would say in Heat. If you put Sánchez in front of a mirror, it is not reflected, but not because he is a vampire, but because the reflection is slower than his principles. When it appears they have already gone elsewhere, preferably the opposite side of where they were: from ERC to Ciudadanos, for example. As he is the pilot and takes the entire hostage passage, someone will already support him. To him it exceeds with knowing that that night he will return to sleep in La Moncloa; with whom, and I mean political companies, is the least of it.

Thus, the Government of Pedro - and on this stone I will build chaos - lives up to date and angers everyone. His Frankenstein entered the UCI this Wednesday, and if Rufián is to be believed, he did it "perhaps irretrievably." The angry ERC spokesman, who has learned to say "apriorisms", became the best lawyer in Arrimadas, who risks a lot when he believes that the Spaniards, politically educated in a secular so-and-so, understand the difference between the what and the who of a pact. I share that Cs should make his yes more expensive, start more commitments from the weaker government of democracy, but with someone like Sánchez, in whom the only certainty is treason, perhaps it is better to negotiate few and tangible things. Beyond economic measures, the ERC's anger, Baldoví's disappointment or Iglesias's discomfort due to the intrusion of the orange bicha into their territorial habitat are tangible: if they feel that it introduces discord in their populist paradise, it has already done more damage to the Government the kiss of Inés than the frontality of Vox. But above all, the guarantee of parliamentary control until August is tangible: Sánchez every 15 days fitting Frankenstein's horned attacks on the one hand and the batteries on the right on the other is too tempting a show to despise it.

De Bal, Edmundo Bal , was the best intervention of the morning, separating the grain of the Spanish from the straw of their president. Will the defense of reason and utility still be possible in our politics devoured by identity antagonism? I am quite skeptical. But it also doesn't hurt to exceptionally bump into the wild boar banks with that monk seal that was believed to be extinct and that is called responsibility. Sánchez will deceive Cs, of course, but Cs knows that the legislature will be agonizing and that when the economic pandemic displaces the utility, there will be plenty of opportunities for sweet revenge. They are learning from the PNV: every time Aitor Esteban left the chamber with the phone to his ear, Sánchez's maxillary bruxism was triggered, since he no longer knows what to give Aitor to retain his votes except perhaps to impose Basque in Congress.

As for Casado , he was much better at the sharp fencing of the reply than in the speech, perhaps too academic. But his problem is not the oratory but the strategy: he must solve if the goal is reached before, offering to play in the middle or waiting for the ball on the wing.

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