It didn't even take 24 hours before it was clearly able to be understood why only the name of the Salvadoran diplomat Francisco Galindo Vélez was made known out of the four that make up the international mechanism to ensure compliance with the accords reached by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Together for Catalonia (Junts). The address given this Sunday in Madrid by the president of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a new event called to oppose the amnesty, was a flagrant and excessive instance of slander with xenophobic overtones: "For Sánchez to appoint a citizen of El Salvador to decide the future of Spain is an unbearable humiliation."
He wasn't the only one. The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, doubled down on the same idea: "We don't need a Salvadoran to decide our future." And Isabel Díaz Ayuso brought the rhetoric close to Civil War talk. It seems as if the PP and the judiciary, as the spearhead of the deep state, have shared out the duties: the politicians look after the weekend and the others handle the working days. The goal? Give no quarter to the PSOE and its pro-independence partners with the amnesty law. Attack the government from all fronts and from all professional and social sectors. Deprive them of oxygen, they say.
From the little we know about the meeting held on Saturday in the vicinity of Geneva it seems that, during it, the PSOE and Junts devoted some time to preparing Galindo for the attacks he is likely to suffer from now on. And so it was, starting this very Sunday. Spain's ABC newspaper opened its front page with the following headline: "A Salvadoran will be the arbiter of the PSOE's concessions to Junts". But it was necessary to make public the name, at least, of the coordinator-spokesperson, since, in addition, he acted as an umbrella for the names that want to be protected and which, within the verification mechanism, are at least three. The representative of the Henry Dunant Foundation, who acts as host, and two other people who contribute their experience in conflict processes and, in one case, their personal authority.
The PSOE and Junts devoted some time to preparing Galindo for the attacks he is likely to suffer from now on. And so it was, starting this very Sunday
The script agreed in Switzerland will not change and PSOE and Junts have set themselves the task of the next appointment in the Alpine country already addressing a first analysis of the positions expressed by both parties in the document signed in Brussels at the beginning of November. This will be carried out through technical committees whose nuts and bolts will be looked after by Santos Cerdán and Jordi Turull and their teams of close collaborators. Thus, both the former PM of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Catalan president-in-exile Carles Puigdemont, who led the delegations of the two parties, are situated more in the strategic field, without directly addressing the minute by minute.