“It is very touched“he admitted Zapaterowho confirmed that on Wednesday Pedro Sanchez He arrived at Congress with hardly any sleep. When we saw him on Tuesday at the presentation of the Cervantes Prize in Alcalá de Henares, together with the kings, the Minister of Culture and the president of the Community of Madrid, the leader of the Executive was less hurt, at least in appearance, but he did things as rare as being next to the Monarch and the Queen with your hands in your pockets. Then came the information about his wife and his letter. He then isolated himself and barely maintains strictly essential communications.
The philosopher Daniel Inneraritywho visited the president in Moncloa, assures that a man was found “vulnerable and dejected” for the information about his wife. But perhaps it is she, the alleged victim of this alleged harassment, who can redirect the situation.
María Begoña Gómez Fernández (Bilbao, 1975), wife of the president of the government, is the person who decides what will become of Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón in the future.
Only she, Basque by birth but with Castilian roots, knows 24 hours before the Shakespearean decision is communicated that keeps all the ministers in suspense, who do not know their immediate future, since they depend on whether Pedro Sánchez leaves or stays. or a third way is pulled out of its sleeve in the form of a surprise, beyond the vaunted motion of confidence that some analysts do not rule out.
In his latest book, Mainlandpublished in December, Sánchez says that “the couples of politicians“they turn”very vulnerable” for the attacks they receive to wear them down. “The life of a politician’s partner is very difficult because in the end they end up exposed, in the case of Begoña exposed, to political criticism, because it has a political purpose, which is to erode their partner, in this case me. And Begoña does not have the political tools to defend herself, to go to a lectern and say, well, I agree with this, with the rest. So there is an asymmetry that makes politicians’ partners very vulnerable. You have to arm yourself with a lot of patience, you have to have a shell and above all a lot of complicity in the personal relationship that is the one I have with Begoña, who is my partner.“.
In the PP specifically and in general in a good part of the country, opinions swing between Sánchez’s strategic bluff, the departure of the Government for hidden reasons, using the alibi of his wife’s affair as an excuse or directly believing the love attack of the person, father or husband who lives in La Moncloa with his wife and daughters. For now, the king of drama, as he titled on Friday The Economisthas already burned a good part of its international reputation.
Faced with Pedro Sánchez’s supposed fatigue with what he considers harassment and demolition of his family, there are also evident facts such as the feverish electoral calendar, independent pressure, the inability to legislate with the current parliamentary arithmetic and the offensive of the opposition. Because, objectively and with regard to the court process, if we take into account what has happened so far, it does not constitute a serious judicial threat against Begoña Gómez.
Recent history reminds us, however, that Pedro Sánchez does not have the final test and does have complicated ways of acting, with a non-linear personality, with colossal changes of opinion (some consider them lies).
An unpredictable statesman like few others, he has spent six years at the head of the Government and has turned the PSOE into a stall whose main function, as we have seen in these days of reflection, is to applaud him and beg him to stay.
But despite this pathetic spectacle, important Ferraz leaders, regulars at Moncloa, fear a permanent departure for their leader. Waiting for this Sunday to stop singing to us the mythical Should I Stay or Should I Go de The Clash and Spain is stunned by the unusual political and institutional crisis orchestrated by our very original president.
The sticky but respectable displays of support that embarrass many, excite others and despair some are no guarantee of anything. If Begoña Gómez does not get off the wagon, Sánchez will decide that his presidency is over.
This incontrovertible situation of the most creative president in the history of Spain far surpasses surprises of the caliber of the early elections on July 23, after the socialist debacle in the regional elections in May.
But if, as he said in his famous letter last Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez is moved for amorous, sentimental or emotional reasons more than as a political strategy, a change of mood may mean a change of course and of “I am a man deeply in love“let’s move on”I am a man deeply in love with my country“, and let’s have pressure for another season.
It is implausible that everything exploded due to the alleged campaign of harassment against the controversial professional activity of his wife, who, to give just one example, was appointed to hold a professorship at the Complutense University without having a degree. A chair sponsored with 120,000 euros by La Caixa and Reale Seguros. And this is apart from the matters for which the famous judge Peinado has opened the proceedings that have caused this unprecedented political tsunami.
Ferraz assumes with a homogeneous consensus that the flight of Pedro Sánchez would have a devastating effect in the short and medium term for the PSOE in particular and for the entire coalition that supports the president.
But if you stay after the number you have organized your image will be “a caricature“and your previous image will be”difficult to recover“says a woman who was part of one of Sánchez’s previous executives.
Begoña Gómez is for this former socialist leader the only person who can “minimize damage“of a”action that has gotten out of hand“, tells us.
Let us not forget that it was Begoña who encouraged her husband to run again after the disaster of October 1, 2016, when the old party’s own apparatus believed it had destroyed his leadership possibilities.
We have already previewed from this digital the complicated night from Tuesday to Wednesday that the couple shared, hours before it was revealed that the coiffed judge opened proceedings that affected Begoña after the complaint from the Manos Médicas union.
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