I have the impression that in Spain, for the PP in general and for its national president in particular, November 6 is too far away. What Alberto Núñez Feijóo says is that he finds the presence of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government literally unbearable.
In his Sunday article, Enric Juliana places the beginning of the real political journey at the moment when the result of the American elections of November 6 is known. The impact of the electoral result, whatever it may be, on all the political systems of other countries will be so extraordinary that it will be necessary to reinterpret in the light of said electoral result what the future holds for us not only in the United States, but for the whole world.
It is possible that globalization, from an economic point of view, will have difficulty continuing to advance as it has done in the immediate past, but from a political-electoral point of view, there has never been a year comparable to 2024 with the succession of elections in the countries of greatest weight in the world in the first ten months, which will end with the elections in the United States. So I completely agree with Juliana’s thesis.
However, I have the impression that in Spain, for the PP in general and for its national president in particular, November 6 is too far away. What Alberto Núñez Feijóo expresses, both verbally and through his body language, is that he finds the presence of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government literally unbearable. Not a minute longer. It is with this idea that he gets up and goes to bed and with it, I fear that he will try to torpedo the functioning of our constitutional system.
We still have to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). The twenty members that compose it have been elected, but until an agreement is reached to appoint the President, the CGPJ will remain “in office”, without either the Constitution or the Organic Law of the Judiciary having an answer as to when it will take place so that the body can continue in such a situation. What is known is that the most important functions assigned to the CGPJ cannot be exercised and that, consequently, the deterioration will progress, possibly leading to paralysis, of the functioning of the judicial bodies that depend on the exercise of these functions.
What is the priority for Núñez Feijóo, that he be elected president of the CGPJ and leave the body “materially in function” or that progress be made in the direction of chaos in the administration of justice and that tensions be generated that make the continuity of the legislative body?
What the PP president is conveying is rather the second than the first. The CGPJ was “formally” renewed because it could not not be renewed, but the will of non-renewal of the previous six years continues to dominate within the PP. The body “materially” is therefore not renewed.
What is happening with the CGPJ also applies to immigration. The PP has placed itself in the position of refusing to even consider the possibility of reforming the immigration law, with the aim of responding to the distribution of immigrants among the different autonomous communities, at the same time demanding more money so that the Government Councils of these communities can face a problem that they refuse to recognize in a normative way.
In Spain, as in other countries of the European Union, immigration will continue to be a problem and an opportunity whose non-recognition as such is difficult to share. The potential of immigration to fuel tensions is well known, since it is a terrain that lends itself almost like no other to the circulation of hoaxes that can only be controlled when they have already spread significantly and at the cost of enormous costs for coexistence. November 6 is a long way off.
And what about the judicial persecution against Begoña Gómez, in which an attempt is being made to prosecute her husband, the President of the Government. This September, decisions will be taken in this area, on which it is difficult to make predictions, since irregularity, allegedly procrastination, is the norm that has presided over the exercise of the jurisdictional function by the investigating judge who understands the case.
And the refusal to apply the amnesty law with the obvious aim of politically provoking Junts, playing with political and judicial eras which, as everyone knows, are very different.
Between September 1 and November 6, we will witness violent clashes in Spain over issues that have more to do with the preparation of a kind of coup d’état than with the regular functioning of democratic institutions.
