Alberto Casero lives. The fight continues. This time it was not an explosive gastroenteritis that confused a Popular Party deputy in the vote. It was all of them together who screwed up. In reality, it is not very clear what happened when the PP and Vox approved a change with their votes that advances the release from prison of some ETA prisoners who served their sentences in France. Yes, there are some clues that indicate that the party fell into the same trap that it has been setting for its adversaries for years. Everyone who is not like me is ETA. Now in some way the PP is also ETA.
When you look like an asshole, the last thing you have left is to accuse the other person of being evil. It’s a desperate way out, it never works completely, but if you have no other option, you resort to it. Better that than leaving your mouth open like a… that’s it. It is a custom that is widely practiced in politics.
It was on Monday when the PP got the shock and had a hard time digesting it. In the midst of a campaign to promote a conciliation law and make it appear that Alberto Núñez Feijóo really cares about the weak, the party found itself in a role to which it is not accustomed. He had received a slap across the face and it turns out that he had given it to himself. The same in the case of Vox.
The first idea was to apologize to the AVT and talk about “a generalized error.” It’s a classic answer. Thus, when the mistake belongs to everyone, in the end it belongs to no one. Which means that no one will pay with their head if some demand that a few be impaled on pikes for the delight of the crowd. Heads rolling usually doesn’t solve anything, but it serves to calm the beasts that want blood. Until someone comes to the conclusion that it would be better to aim for a explanatory goat, as Les Luthiers would say.
The next day, it was time for the counterattack. The usual. You release Miguel Tellado to start the flamethrower. Now he looked somewhat pathetic. Just like the child who flatly denies having eaten all the remaining chocolate while brown streaks run down his face. There was space for his typical hurtful phrase: “They have shown that Bildu has Pedro Sánchez at gunpoint.” What is expected of Tellado in these cases.
The most relevant part was the one in which the PP recognized that they had acted like idiots: “The meanest deception that we could have never imagined.” And the PP is capable of imagining the worst in relation to the Government. We have been deceived. Nor do we read the laws, decrees and legislative reforms that we vote for. We are that inept.
At that time, Feijóo was in Guadalajara presenting his conciliation plans. That was the message that the PP wanted to bet on on Tuesday. He found himself buried in the controversy related to the ETA prisoners. In addition to recognizing the error, he tried to force the PSOE to resolve his life and cancel the reform (the Senate cannot do so).
“There is a moral abyss between an error in parliamentary procedures and the deliberate will to get ETA prisoners out of jail,” he said. When he no longer knows what to say, Feijóo likes to bring up the topic of morality. Maybe he thinks that politicians know as much about the subject as ethics professors.
The socialist Patxi López had it easy to respond to the PP. It was enough for him to say that the discussion process had lasted six months and that it was not very complex, because only thirteen amendments were presented. Apparently, too many for the PP.
In the afternoon in the plenary session of Congress, the PP unleashed all its rage. Deputy Jaime de Olano accused the PSOE of being a “moral dunghill.” He called the socialist number three, Santos Cerdán, “scoundrel” and “coward.” There was an open bar for insults. When the vice president of Congress ordered their removal from the session log, a symbolic measure, Tellado told him that it was a “mafia.” Mud to cover up the alleged negligence that had made them look ridiculous.
The psychotic part of the controversy corresponded to Isabel Díaz Ayuso: “ETA is stronger than ever.” It is not the first time he has stated something like this. According to their logic, ETA is stronger than in 1979, when he murdered 80 people. ETA is stronger than in 1980, when it murdered 97 people. ETA is stronger than in 1987, when it murdered 21 people in the Hipercor attack. ETA is stronger than in 2000, when it murdered Fernando Buesa, José Luis López de Lacalle, José María Martín Carpena, Juan María Jauregi, José María Korta and Luis Portero. Ayuso doesn’t care about all of that. Those names and figures should never be forgotten, no matter how much it suits some politicians to do so.
Before laughing at the PP’s depression for its incompetence, there are facts that refute the excuses. In the parliamentary debate, deputy José Manuel Velasco reproached the Government for having taken two years to bring the transposition of the European directive to the Chamber. It had been joined by an amendment by Sumar so that Spanish prisoners who had served a sentence in a European prison would not have to be imprisoned during that period of time in Spain for the same crime.
In his speech, Velasco did not forget Sumar’s contribution. In fact, he thought it was great: “We celebrate the incorporation of the Sumar amendments, which improve the legal effects of previous convictions on a new criminal process by applying both in the previous phase of the process and during the process as well as in the execution of sentences.”
They had not only read Sumar’s amendments, but they had understood them and praised them. Also on the issue of “the execution of sentences”, that is, the fulfillment of the sentence.
Friendly fire was accumulated against the PP on social networks from the right. It was inevitable. So were the comments of hyperventilating demagogues who now want to put the PP deputies who voted in favor of the reform in prison.
There is no denying the evidence. Some contested the title of best tweet of the day. It was none other than the economist Juan Ramón Rallo: “In the end it was PP and Vox who have voted for Txapote.”
Ouch, ouch and a hundred times ouch. Now we will have to ask the ETA member to thank the PP for the gesture. Thank you Txapote, it could be the slogan for the next campaign at PP rallies.
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