Pedro Sanchez He is going through the most critical moment since his arrival at Moncloa.
Santos Cerdanwhom Sánchez described as an “honest” man when the scandal broke, has shattered the “Clean Government” story that Moncloa has been defending tooth and nail.
The faces of the Executive in Wednesday’s control session in Congress were a poem. The laughter is over.
The only argument that the blue bench found was to say that the PP was in trouble in Almería, as a result of the arrests that occurred the previous day by the case masks.
As if one stain was removed with another. As if the shadows of the office of a Provincial Council They could cover the eclipse that darkens all of Ferraz and Moncloa.
Santos Cerdán, a key piece of the socialist machine – it was he who agreed with room and with Puigdemont Sánchez’s investiture – has ended up opening up the party and has put the continuity of the legislature in check.
The succession of reports from the Civil Guard, the arrests and resignations have been weakening a Sánchez whose nationalist partners are now growing, like the skinny dog in the proverb.
The flea of all fleas was missing: Alvaro Garcia Ortiz.
The conviction of the State Attorney General makes Sánchez’s situation unsustainable. The man whom he declared “innocent” has ended up being convicted by the Supreme Court. There it is nothing.
Bildu, Junts, ERC and PNV perceive that their support for a party increasingly eaten away by the worm of corruption is beginning to take its toll on their own electorate.
Their closing of ranks around Sánchez as a containment dam against “the right and the extreme right” is cracking. Now they set conditions. Latest, the PNV, taking the process of transferring pending transfers out of the drawer.
Some remember the words of Admit Esteban: If corruption escalates, it would “blow everything up” without anyone even having to lift a finger in Congress.
On Ferraz Street and in the halls of Congress it is an open secret that the rope is increasingly tight.
Pessimism is rife: ministers incapable of firmly supporting the official discourse, deputies who no longer see it possible to limit the case to a few bad apples… and the wild card of lawfare and the persecution of pseudomedia has been exhausted.
Sánchez, with barely any margin, is unable to counteract the image of a cornered party.
The most classic part of the PSOE, the one that heads Emiliano García-Pageasks to turn the page, foresees elections in a few months and even jokes: “Quite a few people from my party are warming up the band.”
The demands of the nationalist partners but, above all, the fall of the State Attorney General, may end up forcing what Sánchez feared so much: that the polls are, now, the only possible solution.