The metaphors department put the batteries this Wednesday when the roof lining of an entrance porch at the Zendal Hospital was collapsed. There was luck and did not catch anyone under. Bad prologue for the great party of the Popular Party in Madrid for the damage suffered by the girl of the eyes of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the pride of the Madrid PP and the underutilized hospital center that was going to be the astonishment of the world. What has better foundations and will cost cheaper is the PP Congress, whose only function is to place Alberto Núñez Feijóo on the exit ramp to the electoral campaign. The Popular Party, always willing to confuse their wishes with reality, believes that elections can be held at any time. So much so that the game is like a motorcycle, convinced that it brushes the victory with your fingers.
The first thing they saw on Friday the attendees on the screen with the entire dark enclosure was an image of Santos Cerdán in red on a black background. Then José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García appeared on each side. It seemed that they were going to honor those responsible for Pedro Sánchez to be at his worst time since he arrived at La Moncloa. Then, other socialist leaders came out and finally the face, also in a sinister red, by Sánchez laughing. They are supposed to be presenting the devil in person.
The compromisarios did not expect something like that. Anyone would say that they were forcing them to go through the “two minutes of hatred” of the novel '1984', when the party members have to see a film that shows Emmanuel Goldstein, the worst enemy of the state. There were some whistles. Fortunately for the image of the PP, people did not launch hatred towards their enemies and to insult the president of the Government. It was undoubtedly a somewhat bizarre form of starting the congress of a party.
In the arrivals of the IFEMA pavilion, everything was hugs and kisses. Some more senses than others. Miguel Tellado gave Carlos Mazón a big hug and patted his face, as if he were a great life of a lifetime. The president of the Generalitat Valenciana later approached Feijóo and gave him a quick handshake, as if they had just known. The institutional signal of the act did not focus on the moment. It was not an image for which it was convenient to bet.
The main course of the day were the speeches of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy. Before, the organizers wanted to be original and scheduled an interview by Deputy Noelia Núñez to Toni Nadal tennis coach. A little coaching based on sport, something that is very stipulated in companies. Personal overcoming, teamwork, never surrender, all those things.
Rafael Nadal's uncle and his coach for many years was not a foreseeable interviewee. He gave a clearly political message against the nationalists (“it turns out that we leave in the hands of people who hate Spain the decisions of the country”). He also left Núñez a little perplexed when he commented that he does not know why politicians get into the subject of language. He said that in Mallorca there is Mallorcan, then said that Catalan, and that was not expected in the PP. In any case, the language is “something that philologists must decide, not politicians,” he said. In the party that invited him, they have a lot of interest in talking about languages and attacking those who think as Nadal.
Nadal recriminated “the constant messages of hate towards the rival”, a basic ingredient of national politics, and left a message for the end: “victory is important, but never at any price.”
The latter is not a very popular point of view in politics, much less in the PP Congress, as it was later seen in the intervention of Aznar. A month ago, the former president asked his party “cold head and maximum vital tension” because there are two years left for the elections and it is not convenient to lose their heads. That was an act of Faes, where Aznar likes to go as a fine analyst who is only dedicated to the most transcendental things. In Congress, it was played by raising the torch and asking for the head of those who have taken Spain to a “shipwreck.” Literally.
So that the PP voters have it clear and crystalline, this is what is at stake at the polls. The list is not short and puts your hair to tip: “In the next send, we will play much more than the continuity of a disastrous government. We will play the historical continuity of the nation, the validity of our Constitution, the guarantees of our freedom, the separation of powers, judicial independence, freedom of expression and information and the rule of law in all its manifestations.” The nation, the Constitution and the freedoms. Everything will disappear, perhaps also the Football League, if the PP does not win. It would be the triumph of evil with capital letters. As if not to win at whatever price.
Aznar already knows what destiny awaits those responsible for the government of Sánchez, including its president. To do Santos Cerdán. “If you agree with criminals, do not surprise you to end in jail, because that is your atmosphere.” If someone had not been clear, he riveted the idea. “The urgent change is for criminals to be legislating in offices to be in jail.” Putting your political rivals in prison is something that suits the rule of law, as Putin, Maduro and Erdogan know.
In that apocalyptic speech, the former president summoned a socialist leader without mentioning his name to coincide with his opinion. “It has had to be a socialist with command in Plaza who has defined Spain as a broken puzzle, who has said that Spain is already broken,” he said. He referred to Emiliano García Page, who can already say that the PP thinks like him. It is not that it is a surprise. As far as can be worth, Aznar has certified it.
Rajoy played the role that he does not believe what he is seeing. “We have seen things that had never seen each other,” he said when he was referring to Leire Díez's handling. This is already a socialist militant is not exactly what Jorge Fernández Díaz, its Minister of Interior, did, who will sit on the bench of the defendants in 2026 for the crimes committed in the Kitchen operation. Leire Díez also did not put the police dome to work to invent the illegal financing of Podemos. We all have a past, although Rajoy's is not very far in time.
The former president mocked the delays and cancellations of trains that have occurred in recent weeks. “Now a train trip is a raffle.” No one knows when he will reach his destination, he said. Nor did the 80 passengers who died and the 144 who were injured in the Angrois accident in 2013 when he was president. Elephant memory is not the strong point of politicians.
All that is irrelevant in a popular party that lives mounted in the hyperbole from the disappointment of 2023 at the polls when he thought everything was ready to return to power. Now announces the end of civilization, the universe and everything else if it stays a few meters from the victory. I just think about it are dizzy and you want to put Sánchez in jail.
