Sánchez declares a ceasefire (he wants CC in his photo)

Aware that the migration crisis has short-circuited the possibilities of understanding with the Canary Coalition, Sánchez will impose a ceasefire on his people, lower the pressure, cool down the headlines, put out the fire that has engulfed the relationship with CC for weeks now. As a gesture of good will, María Jesús Montero will now call the general secretary of the nationalists and president of the Canarian Government, Fernando Clavijo. Clean, negotiating table and new account. Hairs to the sea. The socialists propose to bury the hatchet and negotiate. Sánchez wants the Coalition to be in favor. CC is not in the yes. If anything, an abstention, and after the investiture we will see. The conversation will not be easy. Too many storms have been sown. There is no chemistry. Not physics. Nor thermodynamics. Neither empathy nor trust. CC doesn't trust it. Coalition is not comfortable. He doesn't want to be in the amnesty photo. He wants to put himself in value, yes, but after the president's foreseeable re-election. Sánchez showed his kindest version in the meeting with deputy Cristina Valido, but it is not enough. It's not enough. It won't be easy. There are many open wounds. Pending accounts. Bad precedents. There are few reasons to bet on an agreement. The PSOE must show willingness and give guarantees, it is not easy, it may not be enough.

The relationship between both parties had run aground without giving time for the interlocutors to see each other's faces, face to face.. The August flirtation, a summer dalliance with an uncertain life expectancy, seemed doomed to be reduced to ashes.. The decreasing interest that the socialist ranks showed in the Canary Coalition was joined by the shootout that the immigration crisis on the islands unleashed between both parties.. The bridges were blown up, they cracked, they gave way, they distanced the Canarian Coalition from the PSOE and, consequently, from the support of the Canarian nationalists for the candidate, Pedro Sánchez.. Now it's time to rebuild. Only the miracles that politics is capable of cooking in the minutes of stoppage time, when parliamentary emergencies are pressing, could rebuild a relationship, that of CC and PSOE, which was blown up by poisoned statements.

The conversation descended into noise. It has not been, by any means, something unprecedented. Tension has been common between them for years now. Although socialists and nationalists have been perfectly capable of understanding each other in the past – they have been partners at different times in the autonomous journey – there has never been chemistry with Sánchez. At times, if ever. Former deputy Ana Oramas, who was particularly harsh with him every time he went up to the congressional rostrum, did not agree with the president. There has never been a fluid relationship, ever, between Sánchez and the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo. It's better for both of them to get along worse.. Both presidents have never had affection or patience for each other.

They don't even need to, some distracted voice will say. And, yes, it is necessary. Aid. Facilitates. About. And not. They have not been found. On the contrary, the relationship between Sánchez and Clavijo is the chronicle of a disagreement that has only had two parentheses: CC's support for the latest General State Budgets and, from the elections to this part, the intention of the PSOE to incorporate the Coalition to the photo of those who will make the president's re-election possible—an objective that had been on hold for weeks in this part.

Although it is not admitted with the desired officiality, both parties maintained contacts before the storm. Messages. Phone calls. Exchange of roles. Encounters in the middle of the light. With the Minister of the Presidency as a back-and-forth messenger, Canarian socialists and nationalists made efforts to learn to understand each other. Bolaños has managed to generate the trust that the Coalition general staff does not fully deserve in the president. From the approach we went to the cold. The messages stopped coming, the calls stopped. The communication entered a hibernation phase, causing the CC deputy to inform the King that they had no news from the PSOE or the candidate Sánchez. The unstoppable cooling of the relationship gave way to a dynamic of accusations, replicas and qualifications that broke the summer conversation of Canarian socialists and nationalists.. It was assumed that it would be resumed when the King commissioned Sánchez to create a sufficient majority, but with the exchange of accusations as a result of the migratory crisis, the possibility that they would give up trying to reach an agreement began to take shape.. Sánchez wants CC in his investiture photo. going to try. Thus there is no one to negotiate, the conditions are not met to attempt a more or less solid agreement for the investiture – it was heard in CC -.

The migration crisis has the Canary Islands with assisted breathing, pedaling on a stationary bicycle, flying over the collapse and on the verge of the tension between the national and regional governments landing at street level. Relations between the central and regional executives are practically broken, an uncontrolled explosion that has reached the category of institutional crisis.. The unstoppable arrival of immigrants and the apathy of the relevant ministries have led to an indigestible cocktail. Nobody called. Nobody responded. Nobody extended a hand. Anything. The rope broke, until yesterday.

In the archipelago, the idea is growing that in Madrid and the other autonomous communities they have ignored a crisis that, with the facts in hand, far from being a matter of State, seems to be considered a Canarian matter.. The Minister of the Interior added gasoline to the bonfire of press headlines (his statements ignited a legion of indignant people) and the Canary Islands president decided to bury the truce that PSOE and CC had agreed upon.. A parliamentary collaboration between both formations was, given the circumstances, a hypothesis that was no longer viable.. At least, facing the investiture. Paint that they will not be in the photo. CC prefers something else. The day-to-day situation will be a different matter, once the next legislature gets underway, if the wild card of an electoral repetition is not pulled..

CC and PSOE will not shake hands at the investiture session. The amnesty and the immigration crisis crossed their path that Sánchez now wants to smooth out. The vote of the CC deputy, Cristina Valido, was no longer essential since Carles Puigdemont's party announced that they were putting the abstention letter in the drawer. Without intending to, Junts did a favor for the Coalition. In CC they prefer it that way, convenient but not essential. Sánchez wants them in the photo. Coalition prefers to save it and understand each other, yes, but later. A negotiation begins that will be marked by mistrust and discomfort. Sánchez wants yes, but CC prefers abstention. The ceasefire has an expiration date.