That the PSOE is “cyclothymic” is recognized by ministers and socialist leaders, who assume that it is an organization that is very permeable and susceptible to headline blows. That usually has complexities for Ferraz’s tenants, but sometimes it gives them a ball of oxygen. This is precisely what has happened in barely a week in which Pedro Sánchez’s party has moved from internal tension over the reform of the Penal Code – specifically the reductions in penalties for embezzlement and, to a lesser extent, changes in the sedition– to the closing of ranks due to the blow that the Constitutional Court has delivered to the Government and Parliament by preventing the processing of the measures with which they sought their renewal.
