Feijóo’s order to Sánchez in Extremadura: front door or infirmary

It’s more. Even the (hypothetical) future pacts of the PP with Junts are considered differently from the pacts (present and real, at least until this Monday) of the PSOE with Junts.

In the first case, the pact would be considered as an alliance of the Spanish extreme right with the independence extreme rightpressured by the rise of an openly fascist party like Aliança Catalana.

In the second case, the pact is an expression of plural Spain between a social democratic party and a fully comparable Catalan liberal center party.

That this type of insane narrative has caught on among a not insignificant part of Spanish citizens says everything about the state of ruin of democratic culture in our country.

It was those marked cards that gave him in the extremes a Pedro Sanchez the opportunity in 2023 to form a blocking executive destined, not to develop the PSOE government program, but to prevent the investiture as president of Feijóo, the winner of the general elections.

In popular terms, a political manger dog, who neither governs nor lets govern.

We Spaniards have been living for two and a half years, like angry fleas, on the back of that dog in the manger whose only vital purpose is to avoid democratic alternation.

That bullying political to half of Spain is the entire program that Sánchez offers to his people today.

And to that bullying Feijóo responded this Monday with an order to Sánchez. The ace of clubs in that deal could have been Mañueco, Azcon o Guardiola.

Also Mazonalthough the order would have taken different forms in that case.

Ayuso y Juan Manuel Moreno They are a separate case and they go on their own. The first is guaranteed a new absolute majority in the Community of Madrid. Moreno, we’ll see.

From these letters, Feijóo has chosen Guardiola ahead of Mañueco, which was plan B. A sign that, today, the president of the PP trusts more in Guardiola’s chances of reaching an absolute majority or quasi-majority in Extremadura than in Mañueco’s in Castilla y León (scheduled for March 15, 2026, if Mañueco does not advance).

The party must have its internal polls, but the bet entails risks.

If Guardiola confirms the polls that give him between 29-30 seats, one or two above his current result (28), but three-four from the absolute majority (which is 33 in the Extremaduran parliament), the PP will be able to back up with facts its promise to govern alone with the occasional support of Vox… or of the parties that provide it at all times.

If to this small but significant rise we add a fall of the PSOE from the current 28 seats (the same as Guardiola now) to 25-26, Feijóo’s story will gain even more strength.

The scenario is favorable for Guardiola. His foreseeable socialist rival at the polls will be Miguel Angel Gallardowho has been sent to trial alongside David Sanchezbrother of the President of the Government, for alleged crimes of administrative prevarication and influence peddling related to the irregular allocation of a position in the Badajoz Provincial Council.

What’s more, the elections could coincide with a photo of Gallardo in the dock.

But the opposite could also happen. That Guardiola stays as he is and that, regardless of the PSOE result, Vox increases its deputies and gains a little (not much, but a little) weight in its relationship with the PP.

In that case, Sánchez will be able to argue that the PP’s “ultra” opposition not only does not benefit Feijóo, but also fuels his main rival on the right, Santiago Abascal.

Guardiola, in this sense, has been quick: in the face of polls that speak of a stagnation of the PP and a rise of VOX, the Extremaduran president has called elections, nipping the alleged bleeding in the bud. Prevention is better than cure. And the longer it took to call early elections, the greater the bleeding would have been.

Assuming the bleeding is real, which remains to be seen.

Much of Feijóo’s fate will be decided in the story. If the PP manages to convince Extremadurans, and with them the rest of Spaniards, that PSOE and Vox have tacitly and cynically allied themselves in a clamp against their party, the useful vote could favor them.

If the one who imposes his story is Vox or, worse still, the PSOE, Guardiola will be forced to play defensively, in an imitation of what happened in the 2023 general elections.

The remedy, in any case, is on the table and has always been: it consists of turning the Extremaduran elections into the first in which Spaniards will be able to give their opinion and vote on the corruption in Pedro Sánchez’s family environment.

Said another way. These elections will be about Extremadura. But, above all, about Begoñaabout Pedro Sánchez’s brother, about the State Attorney General, about abalos, Cerdan y Koldo. And about that empire of prostitution of the Sánchez political family from which the president has lived practically his entire adult life and which is the origin of his real estate assets.

The Extremaduran elections are the first round of a general election that will, predictably, second and third rounds before the final vote.

If the PP lives up to expectations, these regional elections will become a demographic drop by drop that will gradually wear down Sánchez and cause quite a few problems in a PSOE in which no one, except its meekest ministers, willingly accepts sacrificing himself at the polls in exchange for the survival of the political zombie that sleeps in the Moncloa.

If the opposite happens, Sánchez will cling to his tired and worn-out trick of the extreme right, Franco, Netanyahu, Trump and abortion.

For Feijóo, it is the front door or the infirmary. And the bull seems sickly, but he already gave Feijóo a somersault that almost broke his head in 2023.

It is to be hoped that, this time, the one who is resentful will be the bullfighter, and not the bull.