In politics, it is just as dangerous to raise too few expectations as too many. The second is even worse, since all adversaries, internal and external, are activated before reaching the desired goal. Pedro Sánchez, Pere Aragonès or Isabel Díaz Ayuso -in opposing ideological orbits- are where they are because at the time they raised few expectations and knew how to strike at the right time from the right place. Sánchez began as a kind of executor of Susana Díaz in Madrid, nobody remembers anymore. Aragonès as the tidy boy who took the ministry to Junqueras and Díaz Ayuso as a kind of influence that would save the furniture from the first elections that Casado faced. This strange political week has swept away two emerging leaders who had raised high expectations: Yolanda Diaz and Laura Borras, also in antagonistic ideological orbits. And by the way, the attempt by the current Moncloa team to dilute the coalition has been rendered ineffective. It had been a long time since a couple of votes caused so much political havoc.
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‘Game over’ for activism
Laura Borràs led the Junts lists in the elections a year ago. She did so anointed by Puigdemont and by the new bases of this party, eager to continue with the confrontation, especially judicial, with the State, without noticing the importance of the matter in dispute. Torra lost his deputy act and the presidency for a banner, not for taking command of the Army in Catalonia. Borràs came third at the polls and the ability of Jordi Sánchez took her to the presidency of the Parliament from where she has tried to act as an antagonist of Sánchez himself, of Aragonès and, very especially, of his predecessor, the Republican Roger Torrent. As an expert in literature, Borràs masters very well what is now called “the story”. Since she is president, she has not missed an opportunity to bathe in crowds at all kinds of events while she waits for the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) does the job and processes it until it is disqualified, for nothing that has to do with independence, to lead his great momentum of disobedience and put in check not the State but the Esquerra Republicana. This great expectation has been broken this week because Borràs has had another disqualification, that of Pau Juvillà, and has ended up obeying like torrent but with much worse style. now is tomorrow says the poet Miquel Martí i Pol. In the republican ranks, the episode has been experienced with abundant bags of popcorn, but in those of the Borràs party it has been experienced as a relief: the beginning of the end of the activist sector that Puigdemont endorsed on them in The lists. All this seasoned, in addition, with the cold revenge of the Chamber officials who disconnected Juvillà without waiting for the orders of the table and the president, somewhat annoyed because he put them at the feet of the horses of populism for your early retirement program.
Yolanda Díaz can no longer do everything
The Vice President of the Government on behalf of Podemos, although a member of the PCE, was about to achieve glory: approve a labor reform to the taste of the EU, agreed with employers and unions and ratified by the majority of the plural left of the investiture. And from glory to failure there is the minute that a vote lasted in which The reform endorsed by the unions and the employers’ media was approved with the votes of Citizens in the dying phase and a PP deputy who was allegedly wrong. Worst impossible. Politics does not work the same as trade unionism and the pacts from behind need compensation for the gallery. So cruel. And in politics, moreover, the applause of the opponents is of no use, nor that they are neo-communist columnists embedded in the center-right press, because they will never lend you the couple of votes you need to put the icing on the cake. After this serious incident, Yolanda Díaz can not continue as if nothing. It is one thing to go beyond Podemos to broaden the base and another to let it be the symbol that the coalition can be something more than a pact of convenience. Perhaps that is the only good news that the week has given him. The Moncloa alchemists have failed to consolidate an alternative formula to the support of Esquerra and, alternatively, Bildu and the PNV. The only possibility is the low-class Tamayism that always gets the things that the CEOE needs to be voted on when the PP or Vox are not within range to facilitate it.
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