[News] An unhinged government

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The internal polls must go very badly for the PSOE to be forced, in the unprecedented way in which it did yesterday, to scorch a minister like Luis Planas, head of Agriculture, to counteract the damage that Alberto Garzón and United We Can are doing to the sector meat in full pre-campaign of the elections in Castilla y León. The internal crisis in the Government is not one more to which the two parties of the coalition have us accustomed from day one. This is not another typical struggle of this government of battered checks and balances and mutual jealousy, and they no longer even try to hide their differences, as they did in the past when Pablo Iglesias was vice president. The only plausible explanation is that both parties have entered an electoral panic because with just two weeks to go before the campaign begins, it is not logical that the eternal latent battle of egos and disavowals has so explicitly exploded into the air.

 

Planas yesterday offered almost a dozen statements to different media attacking Alberto Garzón. He was overwhelming, overreacted even. It had never happened before with any minister, in the same way that it had never happened until now that the leaders of Podemos, including Iglesias, stormed directly against Pedro Sánchez. There had been skirmishes between Yolanda Díaz and José Luis Escrivá or Nadia Calviño; between Ione Belarra and Margarita Robles; between Irene Montero and Carmen Calvo…, but the direct target was never the Prime Minister. The tension, dragged by lousy polls for both parties, has even reached the point that Iglesias himself has attacked Sánchez, accusing him of spreading "hoaxes" about Garzón.

 

However, it would be naive to claim that the coalition is in danger. It is true that many ministers do not support each other and that coexistence within the Council of Ministers can clearly be improved. When Planas was asked yesterday whether Garzón should resign, he responded eloquently with a simple "no comment." Podemos is causing irreparable damage to the prestige of Spain and the reputation of many business sectors by pure ideological indoctrination. But it is Sánchez who consents because, above temporary campaigns, the only thing that interests the PSOE is to exhaust the legislature by forcing whatever. And for Podemos, exactly the same: it is more motivating to cling to ministries than any consumer habit or the well-being of citizens. That is why the coalition is in poor health. Today, the PSOE without Podemos, like Podemos without the PSOE, can only be synonymous with the convening of general elections, and that is not on their agendas.

 

Garzón lied because neither Spain exports meat in poor condition, nor can the accusation of animal abuse in our meat industries be happily sustained before the press. If Garzón has minimal evidence, he should go to the Prosecutor's Office because it is evident that Planas, precisely the minister in charge of food, does not seem to have anything to say to him. The true teamwork of this cabinet consists of stepping on each other, putting the credibility of our country at risk. Enough has been said about Garzón and the inanity of the Ministry. Also from his toxic prejudices, for example, towards macro-farms, which logically have their pros and cons. But there is nothing more absurd than attacking a substantial part of the electorate a month after the polls open, and that reveals a progressive unhingedness of the PSOE and Podemos.