The Catalans’ “no” to the amnesty law and the fragility of Pedro Sánchez

Insatiable, the most radical Catalan independentists have just renounced the approval of the amnesty law that they asked for from Pedro Sánchez and which was of interest only to them. They want more.

The bill will then return to the box from which it came out – the Justice Commission -, which will be the trench from which those of Junts – the party of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont – will continue to fight for get the most out of Sánchez’s PSOEwho abandoned the vote this Tuesday in a politically wounded Parliament.

The family photo that Pedro Sánchez imposed for his re-election reflects eight parties that supported him in exchange for concessions that, from what we have seen so far, they will bleed their legislature dry.

The political cost of an agreement, especially with the Catalan and Basque independentists, eats away at the ankles of his management, criticized by the opposition and even behind closed doors of his party, where voices such as that of the former president Felipe González or the current president Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, do not silence their discontent.

Because where Sánchez sees normalization and coexistence with the Catalan separatists because, as he himself says, he believes in adding them in this way to the governability of Spain, nationalism senses the opportunity to continue to pave the way for its project: the independence of Catalonia.

And they don’t hide it: for now it’s an amnesty for everyone. Subsequently there will be a self-determination referendum.

Since he decided to form a government at all costs, Sánchez has already endured, among other difficulties, half a dozen mass demonstrations organized by the Popular Party and, for weeks, daily night protests – tinged with violence – on the outskirts of the headquarters of the Socialist Party, in Ferraz street in Madrid.

He receives blows from the separatists, eager to enforce even the smallest specks of what was agreed with the head of government, from magistrates and judges, who are not willing to give up the cause of the amnesty as lost, and from the more conservative sectors, because Sánchez is stealing the rule of law in Spain.

It is increasingly difficult to hide the vulnerability of this government, the second of the coalition and the third with Pedro Sánchez in the Moncloa Palace. We will have to see to what extent he will give in to the “I love you, I hate you, give me more” that the Catalan independence activists will sing to him like Seru Girán in the 1980s.

Madrid. Corresponding