All the agents of the Canarian Coalition (the "Regime", hereinafter), have entered the ring against Pedro Sánchez for not having received --even if it was for 20 minutes-- Clavijo during his brief stay in Lanzarote.
Without dwelling on argumentative quibbles, they have jumped from criticizing an attitude that they describe as non-institutional, but partisan, to using harsh words against the Government-PSOE, accusing it of disloyalty to constitutionalist parties and of being subjected to separatists of all colors.
This painting, with the experience that the democracy of '78 already has, of the PSOE as a hostage of the secessionists has its grace.
But it is even more amusing that the columnists of the Regime enthrone as constitutionalists, here and now, those who have been delegitimizing from minute zero a president invested through a constructive motion of censure, which is the pillar of contemporary parliamentarianism, and using even the Bureau of Congress to boycott government initiatives. Or trying to use the Senate to block the government's budgetary framework, based on an Organic Law that is contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution. I hope this experience serves the PSOE in the future: when you give a legal weapon to the conservatives made in Spain, they will use it without hesitation, sooner or later, to preserve their partisan interests.
It also has its charm to listen to the spokespersons of the Regime cackling Clavijo's proclamations about the insignificance of the 85 deputies of the PSOE, to then predict the inevitability of early elections / after scorching the PSOE, without stopping to think that the PSOE obtained 22.63% of the votes in Congress in the last general elections compared to 18.30% of the Canarian Coalition in the regional elections of 2015. But what does one more stripe matter to the tiger of official propaganda? In this too, the Canarian Coalition resembles them (those of the PP, of course): a government is only valid if it is theirs, even if it is the result of a fraudulent electoral regulation.
I will not be the one to defend Pedro Sánchez's attitude. But I do assume that Pedro Sánchez must have taken note of the style book of the Canarian Coalition that Clavijo has applied to the point of caricature. He made him come to the Canary Islands to bless a pact with the PSOE, for which the Canarian socialists were more than enough; but how was Clavijo --the great middleman who imposes on us as Law the interests of developers and builders or turns the defense of private healthcare into a government priority?-- going to recognize the validity of a pact with "middlemen", which is how he contemptuously considers the Canarian leaders of any state-level party?.
At that time, Sánchez didn't even have time to return to the Peninsula and Clavijo was already breaking the Pact in all those matters that are bread and butter issues for the Canarian Coalition. Do you want us to remember Carlos Alonso's attacks on Ornella Chacón or Clavijo's own attacks on Morera? Because it was about awarding roads or contracts with healthcare companies, stupid!
And I will testify how the successive presidents and councilors of the Government of the Canarian Coalition and its presidents of councils have made all kinds of pastoral visits, to inaugurate works or make electoral promises, by islands or municipalities without summoning the presidents and mayors for belonging to other parties. The socialist mayors of Tenerife could tell us about it ad infinitum. Or Casimiro: but that was in other times?
Others might complain about Sánchez's aloofness; but what are they complaining about?
Speaking of everything a little, it would be good for Clavijo to explain his rapid evolution from the Associated Free State (and if that is "Independence", "perfect, what fear is there") to his deep-rooted constitutional loyalty. If only so that one day, if the polls ordered it, he would have to explain to us the return to the starting point.
And to all this, the PSOE supporting the Canarian Coalition in La Laguna.
By Santiago Pérez