2023-07-25 00:20:10
What was expected, because the polls said so, is that the PP would win by a landslide and Pedro Sánchez would receive such a punishment that he would withdraw him from public life. It hasn’t been like that.
It is possible that all Spaniards remember these general elections of July 23, 23. Also a campaign that has been exciting, considering that exacerbated feelings are not always desirable in a politically polarized country as Spain is now.
But emotions come out after a very hard pandemic experience (you know what it is) and a war that has broken the recovery of an economy that should focus on the energy transformation urged by climate change.
In those we were, with a non-cooperative opposition that referred to the executive with the singular government name Frankenstein, for being constituted with the collaboration of Podemos, a party located to the left of the socialist party, and adding specific agreements with the nationalist or pro-independence parties; We were in that when the president called the general elections.
In reality, Pedro Sánchez did not have any other formula in this legislature to carry out the laws that have defined his mandate than to use the support of the small parties that represent the different nationalities of the State.
A worker cleans the street after celebrations at the headquarters of the conservative Popular Party in Madrid, Spain. AP Photo
It has been four hard, rough years, in which rudeness, hoaxes, half-truths, insults have been used as never before, to a level that we did not know even in a country as vehement as ours. Media related to the popular party have fueled hatred of Sánchez on a daily basis, defining him as a psychopath, an egomaniac, an unscrupulous individual who was selling the unity of Spain for the dirty ambition of remaining in power.
They have also been dispatched against the leader of Sumar, a formation that has brought together several left-wing parties and that aspires to a new coalition government with the Socialists. Yolanda Diaz She is a brilliant woman, Minister of Labor with Sánchez, who took essential measures to protect workers during the pandemic and was the architect of the labor reform.
In recent times, the ways of the old school in the presence of women in public life have emerged and there have been several conservative politicians who have put themselves in evidence with behaviors that were believed to be overcome.
What was expected, because the polls have proclaimed it so, is that the Popular Party would win by a landslide and Sánchez would receive such a punishment that he would withdraw him from public life. It hasn’t been like that.
But it has not happened that way. There is a Spain that has feared going backwards in rights and freedoms, there is a country that has defended them and that I was afraid that Vox would drag down the Popular Party towards extremist positions, as is happening in many European countries.
Socialist Workers Party leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, center, applauds during an executive committee meeting in Madrid. AP Photo
The pacts between the right and its extreme that left the municipal and regional elections have had a clarifying effect that has mobilized a left that shelters its disappointments in abstention or in the ranks of the Popular Party.
It is clear that there is a fear of going backwards. Spain zealously defends your civil rights and has seen how those who deny the existence of gender violence or the advances in the well-being of LGTBI people could reach the government of the nation. We also feared (I use the first person plural) the deniers of climate change, whose effects in the Mediterranean are already atrocious, or setbacks in fiscal matters.
These fears are what have encouraged a vote that was considered lost in the first part of the campaign after a debate in which Sánchez allowed himself to be hit dialectically by Feijóo, the conservative leader, who lost his moderate mask to show a face not very well known outside of Galicia.
From that moment so low, the vehemence in the left woke up from its lethargy and the hitherto somewhat leaden campaign turned into a fervent fight for votes for the left-wing parties.
Many of us have supported these parties from our public stands for fear of regression, of regression. Now we are faced with the question of whether it will be possible to govern or whether we will go back to elections. Perhaps Sánchez collects, like other times, that strange magic with which he changes the course of history. What is clear is that at least, after the dizzying scrutiny of the votes, many of us breathe with relief.
(Excuse me for this hasty text, somewhat confusing, but you will understand me very well if I confess to you the difficulty one has when having to tell what one’s own country is like).
*Spanish writer Her latest novel is “In the Wolf’s Mouth”
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