The PP optimistically fastens a strenuous and mortifying week for the Government. In recent days, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has basically limited himself to sublimating the luck of Don Tancredo. Namely: stay completely still and watch, from a pedestal, how the bull passes by. Why move, they think of Genoa, if the coalition partners are already enough and are left over to oppose each other. "Better not to distract them" while "they cook in their own broth", in the middle of 8-M.
The trigger for the crisis of the yes is yes has been the consideration of the reform of the star law of Irene Montero, proposed by the PSOE and rejected with stubbornness by Podemos. Not so much for the United We Can coalition -although in the end everyone voted against- as for the organic hard core of the party. In other words, those closest to Pablo Iglesias.
That clash of horns between the coalition partners has been taken advantage of by the PP to delve into the feminist wound of the Government and, incidentally, try to fish in the temperate fishing grounds of the PSOE. As? First, showing off their support for the rectification of the PSOE. "It is a State pact", they say in Genoa. Tuesday's vote in Congress clearly staged a before and after for Pedro Sánchez in the year of the electoral marathon.
For the national leadership of the popular, it is the most powerful pre-election image along with those of the Mediator case. They believe that they have taken prisoner at a crucial moment. "We have included Sánchez in the photo of Colón," ironic sources from Genoa. "We have managed to get Sánchez to vote now with the parties in the photo of Colón", and nothing less than on the "flank of feminism". "It's a new photo, the 'I told you so' photo," they insist. In other words, "that of those of us who warned of the effects of the rule before it was approved and we were right," they say.
It must be remembered that what is known as the "photo of Colón" was the first image of the unity of the three great parties of the right: PP, Vox and Cs. It happened on Sunday, February 10, 2019, two months before the general elections. Pablo Casado, Albert Rivera and Santiago Abascal came together under the slogan "A United Spain" in Madrid's Plaza de Colón, to show their rejection of Pedro Sánchez's management of the conflict with Catalonia. The image raised Vox, sank the PP and mobilized the left.
Feijóo believes that the rectification is a way to "ask for forgiveness"
For the leadership of the PP, "the PSOE has asked for forgiveness with its vote on Tuesday", and they accept it "like a magnanimous mother who forgives her son". The metaphor is sarcastic, but it also reflects the anger of the PP for the fact that Pedro Sánchez has neither "asked for forgiveness" from the women "revictimized" for the reductions in sentences and releases derived from the Law of only yes is yes, nor have "thanked" the Popular Group for saving a crucial parliamentary process for their electoral interests. Not surprisingly, 61.5% of socialist voters claim to rectify the rule as soon as possible, according to the Sigma Dos survey for this newspaper.
"Sánchez's gratitude for our support for the reform of the yes is yes was to take the photo of the drug trafficker in Congress, but we don't care," continue the sources of the PP leadership. Feijóo's environment ensures that the famous image of him with Marcial Dorado on a boat, which came to light in 2013, is past water. And he tries to settle the matter by ensuring that he himself already gave "all the explanations" in Galicia and that the Galician citizens validated them with two more absolute majorities, those of 2016 and 2020.
The president cited that image in the control session on Wednesday, a few hours after the PP supported the PSOE proposal to change the Yes is Yes Law. "Marta Sánchez came to mind with the song Desperate," a PP leader said that day.
«Your thanks for our support was the photo of the narco. It doesn't matter"
Be that as it may, the truth is that the PP wants to continue on the path of supporting "reasonable" measures of the PSOE and stressing that the Government is actually "already in office", because it does not agree behind closed doors. The popular leadership has seen a frank opportunity to try to place itself in the "centrality" and continue to erode Sánchez from a demoscopic view.
In this sense, the popular will add their votes to the PSOE for a "common front" against the amendments presented by United Podemos and the parliamentary partners ERC and Bildu, who voted against taking into consideration the rectification of the norm. Feijóo's team believes that they can scratch votes in the space of "classic" feminism, with which they have already had several approaches. Above all, because a good part of the electorate that is in contention between the PSOE and the PP -up to a million voters- is against the position of Podemos.
And doesn't the PP believe that the coalition will blow up? No. "Resisting is the only government plan. They will resist. They will agree to a law that interests them and they will continue," the same sources explained. "We have never seen such a thing: one half of the government votes against the other. And one half makes a demonstration against the other half," say popular sources, who emphasize the lack of "authority" of a Pedro Sánchez "who does not have the capacity to dismiss his own ministers" or the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez, Pam. She recorded herself, on 8-M, smiling along with some girls who sang "what a pity it gives me that Abascal's mother could not have an abortion."
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