Alberto Casero lives. The fight continues. This time, it was not explosive gastroenteritis which confused a MP from the People’s Party during 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 voted to approve a change that advances the release from prison of some ETA prisoners who served their sentences in France. Yes, there are indications that the party has fallen into the same trap it has set for its adversaries for years. Everyone who is not like me is an ETA. Now, in a way, the PP is also ETA.
When you look like an asshole, the last thing left is to accuse the other person of being mean. It’s a hopeless outcome, it never completely works, but if you have no other option, you resort to it. It’s better than leaving your mouth open like a… that’s all. It is a custom widely practiced in politics.
It was on Monday that the PP received the shock and had difficulty digesting it. In the midst of a campaign to promote a conciliation law and make people believe that Alberto Núñez Feijóo really cares about the weak, the party found itself in a role it is not used to. He had been slapped and it turns out he had slapped himself. The same in the case of Vox.
The first idea was to apologize to the AVT and talk about “a widespread error”. This is a classic answer. So, when the error belongs to everyone, it ultimately belongs to no one. Which means that no one will pay with their heads if some demand that a few be impaled on pikes for the delight of the crowd. Rolling heads usually doesn’t solve anything, but it does serve 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 the 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 this child who categorically denies eating all the remaining chocolate while brown streaks run down his face. There was room for his typical hurtful line: “They showed that Bildu was holding Pedro Sánchez at gunpoint. » What is expected of Tellado in these cases.
The most relevant part is the one in which the PP admits to having acted like idiots: “The most despicable deception we could never have imagined. »And the PP is capable of imagining the worst in the face of the Government. We have been deceived. We also do not read the laws, decrees and legislative reforms for which we vote. We are so incompetent.
At that time, Feijóo was in Guadalajara to present his conciliation plans. This was the message on which the PP wanted to bet on Tuesday. He found himself immersed in the controversy linked to ETA prisoners. In addition to recognizing his mistake, he tried to force the PSOE to resolve its life and cancel the reform (the Senate cannot do this).
“There is a moral chasm between an error in parliamentary procedures and the deliberate desire to release ETA prisoners from prison,” he said. When he no longer knows what to say, Feijóo likes to bring up the theme of morality. Perhaps he thinks that politicians know as much about the subject as ethics professors.
The socialist Patxi López found it easy to respond to the PP. It is enough to say that the discussion process lasted six months and that it was not very complex, because only thirteen amendments were presented. Apparently, too much for the PP.
In the afternoon, in the plenary session of the Congress, the PP unleashed all its anger. Deputy Jaime de Olano accused the PSOE of being “moral scum”. He described the socialist number three, Santos Cerdán, as a “scoundrel” and a “coward”. There was an open bar for insults. When the vice-president of Congress ordered their removal from the register of sessions, a symbolic measure, Tellado replied 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. » This is not the first time he has said something like this. According to their logic, ETA is stronger than in 1979, when it 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 during the Hipercor attack. ETA is stronger than in 2000, when it assassinated 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 that. These names and figures should never be forgotten, even if it suits some politicians.
Before laughing at the PP’s depression for its incompetence, there are facts that refute the excuses. During the parliamentary debate, MP José Manuel Velasco criticized the government for having taken two years to bring the transposition of the European directive to the House. It was joined by an amendment from Sumar aimed at ensuring that Spanish prisoners who have served a sentence in a European prison should not be incarcerated during this period 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 enhance the legal effects of previous convictions on a new criminal proceeding by applying both in the previous phase of the process and during the process as well than in the execution of sentences. »
Not only did they read Sumar’s amendments, but they also understood and praised them. Also on the question of “execution of sentences”, that is to say the execution of the sentence.
Friendly fire has accumulated against the PP on right-wing social networks. It was inevitable. As are the words of the hyperventilating demagogues who now want to imprison the PP deputies who voted in favor of the reform.
We cannot deny the obvious. Some were vying for the title of best tweet of the day. It is none other than the economist Juan Ramón Rallo: “In the end, it was the PP and Vox who voted for Txapote. »
Ouch, ouch and a hundred times ouch. We will now have to ask the ETA member to thank the PP for the gesture. Thank you Txapote, this could be the slogan of the next campaign at the PP rallies.
