It therefore took four months for Spain, which currently presides over the European Union, to create a government. Four months of invective on the judicial future to be reserved for the Catalan separatists, authors of a clownish secession in 2017, so that the socialist Pedro Sanchez is finally returned to power by an investiture vote with a very narrow majority of three votes, Thursday November 16.
Sanchez therefore “reinstated”, at the cost of an amnesty whose constitutionality remains to be demonstrated – the only way, according to the left, to re-establish dialogue between Madrid and Barcelona, in order to definitively recognize the independence movement and allow Catalonia to gain in autonomy, while ratifying its immutable belonging to Spain. The argument holds water, except that said amnesty primarily responds to a political calendar. Six months ago, Pedro Sanchez swore that he would never accept such a solution.
No substantive debate
As for the right, it has a certain nerve to denounce a “coup d’état”, it which reached out to the same separatists this summer and has been blocking the renewal of the national authorities of the judiciary for five years. In doing so, the Spaniards were not entitled to any substantive debate on the subjects that concern them, inflation, housing, health, climate… Instead, they witnessed the decay of a parliamentary monarchy breathless.
Arriving equally in the legislative elections of July 23, right and left unfolded (as in 2016 and 2019, where the Spaniards ended up voting again) the unworthy scenario imposed by a proportional political system giving room to small parties, sometimes the largest. radicals.
Refresh the Constitution
Unworthy is the Popular Party (PP) of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, still imbued with Francoist nostalgia, and married to Vox, the far-right formation created by defectors from its own ranks to try to take the reins of the country. He failed at the end of September and is now taking to the streets to contest the election results.
Also unworthy is the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which made a 180-degree turn on the amnesty, in order to in turn seek to unite a majority around it. The voices of the extreme left, gathered under the banner of Sumar, were not enough. In this context, there is little to bet on the longevity of the new government, which will be able to tackle the country’s real problems. And refresh the 1978 Constitution, which clearly needs it badly.