With his usual memory problem, the PP usually forgets a premise that shines with clairvoyance in the proverb: what doesn’t kill makes you fat.
As in a Lego construction, Pedro Sánchez adds more and more pieces to that figure called “agony”, but those who rush to write his epitaph ignore that some of them do not make it grow, but rather diminish it. The agony.
The parliamentary weakness of a minority government has already led, from the start, to a slow-motion display of compromises, twists and turns and dependence on uncontrollable forces, a spectacle that is sometimes embarrassing to watch and which, to the PP’s despair, works. But it’s the Ábalos and Cerdán case the biggest firebomb that threatens him, as it is increasingly difficult to believe that the toxicity of these two senior PSOE officials will not contaminate the party and its finances. Until then, what fuels the agony vigorously.
Other pieces, however, do nothing but diminish him, giving Sánchez further reasons to move forward with renewed support and that desire for resistance that characterizes him. The Number 1 Phoenix Bird of This Country (Sánchez) is always reborn, especially when an entire Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court condemns without evidence, with weak evidence, the Attorney General of the State, finally defending the Number 2 Phoenix Bird of This Country (Isabel Díaz Ayuso), also capable of growing up after every shadow of doubt that haunts his family due to commissions or frauds in his business.
But let’s keep an eye on the Legos: other pieces are accumulating on the carpet which, while they seem contrary to Sánchez, actually nourish him: the judicial vitriol against his wife for a private business that has not exactly transformed her into a millionaire; against his brother for a job in the land of thorns; the malice of the PP against the alleged saunas of his dead father-in-law; and the rush of this same party for electoral advancement – as Feijóo asked again this Thursday – which does nothing but underline that the politicization of justice advances hand in hand with the judicialization of the political struggle. What a couple.
If we look at the past, Felipe González ended up falling at the polls due to an accumulation of corruption cases that broke trust in him; Mariano Rajoy suffered the same fate through a motion of censure. And Sánchez may be doomed to the same thing, but the number of goblins who sew his suit for his funeral actually revives him. We will see.
