Acting as a “wall against the far right” has been the main justification for Pedro Sanchez for his unnatural policy of alliances with a constellation of nationalist, populist and extremist forces.
It is obvious that this legitimizing speech was nothing more than an attempt to cover up the blatant tactics with which the president pursued his self-interest at every turn. But he got to the point of negotiating with Giorgia Meloni And Viktor Orban offers definitive confirmation that Sánchez is not governed by moral or political principles, but by the purest opportunism.
Sánchez’s maneuver is the formula that the government found to try to save the appointment of Therese Ribera as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, given the evidence that the PP is ready to carry its veto over the minister to the end.
The way to overcome the EPP blockade against Ribera would be for the European socialist family to marshal the support of ECR and Patriotas for its candidate, in exchange for the socialists lifting the veto on the Italian economic vice-presidential candidate . Raffaele Fittoand the one designated as Hungarian neighborhood commissioner, Oliver Varhelyi. Two candidates belonging to the far-right family for whom socialists were hesitant to vote until today.
The PSOE is therefore in talks with Meloni’s ECR, which it has included among the “fascists with whom it wants to make an agreement”. Feijoo in the EU” in the municipal campaign. Doesn’t the “sanitary cordon” against the far right apply beyond our borders?
And most hilarious of all, Sánchez is about to strike a deal with Orbán’s Patriots, the ultra group in the European Parliament now chaired by Santiago Abascal. That is to say that In practice, the PSOE would agree in Europe with Voxwhat in Spain the socialists and their partners consider to be a red line.
What credibility will the socialist epic of “they will not pass” now have? It is no longer an exaggeration to say that Sánchez would be ready to come to terms with Abascal if this allowed him to retain the presidency of the government.
The president has never been known for the strength of his convictions. But between “stopping the international extreme right” (as he promised during the campaign for the European elections) and ensuring his political and personal benefit, he gave priority to the latter, irremediably dismantles the essence of his argument.
