The December 20 elections were yet another step in the Spanish political transition; they put an end to the current system and ushered in a new political era. As a result of Rajoy’s wicked legislature, which has been marked by corruption and an increase in inequality, the Popular Party (PP) has lost four million votes, and obtained its worst electoral results since 1989.

The willingness of Ciudadanos to hand over political power to the PP, after its electoral wound, only confirms that in the end, we are witnessing the same old wine in new bottles. What is unprecedented is the PSOE’s abdication of its responsibilities and the paralysis of its secretary general. Where is Pedro Sanchez? How is it possible that we have not yet spoken? Is he not going to propose the possibility of an alternative to Rajoy’s government?

Enrico Berlinguer would say that the geopolitics of the old parties is made up of names and places. On the morning of December 21, the geopolitical power of PSOE’s power started to operate, and it was chaotic and contradictory. The names (Felipe Gonzalez, Susana Diaz, Emiliano Garcia-Page, Guillermo Fernandez-Vara…) and places (Brussels, Ferraz, San Telmo…) started a dance that dwarfed a secretary general who seemed more concerned with asserting his place as a candidate for reelection in his party in January than as a candidate for prime minister.

Within a few hours, Susana Diaz indicated that the PSOE congress would do better in April. The PSOE barons intervened on television, putting an end to the possibility that Sanchez would engage in dialogue with anyone who did not belong to the PP or Ciudadanos. This way, PSOE has to accept that the PP would stay in power, or face the uncertain search for a new candidate who could improve Sanchez’s electoral results (the PSOE’s worst in the history of our democracy) in the future.

Meanwhile, the geopolitics of the places of power was also set in motion; as the newspaper El País pointed out in an editorial published on July 29, 2012 editorial, it’s a fact that the representatives of the oligarchical powers pressure Sanchez to make a deal with the PP.

Our more than five million votes, our victories in Catalonia and Euskadi, our second-place results in Madrid, the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Navarre and Galicia are historic, but they are not enough to inform the head of state of my availability to be president of the government. However, these votes are a mandate to propose to all the political forces opposed to letting the PP continue to rule the country to move forward with the transition, while facing the forces of inertia.

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