Politics and The Establishment

Spain has a political system which allows opportunity. From the most humble councillor in the town hall (well, in the local government, that is) to the very top, there is opportunity. One can make use of it or not, as each and every politician must decide.

Many did, and that led to the eventual fall of the last conservative government: for corrupción!

The famous mantra of ‘…y tú más’, which translates as something like ‘Oh yea? and what about your guys?’  was shattered with the rise of Pedro Sánchez (one recalls how the PSOE apparatus of the time did all it could to get rid of him) and, to the far-left, the arrival of Podemos with Pablo Iglesias.

Neither of these two is well seen by the Spanish Establishment. Business – and opportunity – is not best served.

From this comes the continuous plots and ferocious political opposition.

This time though, the electorate is more attuned to the manipulation of the media.

In short, their enemies do all they can to find some dirt on either Pedro or Pablo, whose fame rests to a large degree on their integrity, knowing that any sign of having feet of clay will topple them. And for this, the right-wing, much of the judiciary, the media and big business look under every stone and in every sewer, as they seek to manufacture some scandal that would stick, above all in the eyes of the voters.