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Well yes, Pedro Sánchez has come out of his self-imposed silence -guru Ivan Redondo is there, busying with surveys- to start, who knows, a new electoral pre-campaign or simply to scare Pablo Iglesias. The media platform, Telecinco; the format, an interview in prime time; the discourse, to show Iglesias that new November elections are more likely than a coalition government which includes Unidas Podemos' ministers; the tactic -aw, the tactic!- attack. Or, what is the same, trying to fuel any views against any agreement with the pro-independence force, as is perfectly summed up with two of Sanchez's main lines this Thursday: "Spain needs a progressive government that does not depend on the Catalan pro-independence forces" and "even if it may sound strange to the pro-independence forces, the world does not revolve around the Catalan independence movement". Little or nothing to do, is the message to the Catalan independence movement. At least, that is, until after new elections in Catalonia, where majorities may be staying or may change, and assuming that the Catalan president will be another. 

One of the characteristics of all Spanish prime ministers, shortly after taking Office, is that one after the other they follow the same pattern: they lock themselves in, they avoid press conferences as much as possible, except international summits' essentials where the word is opportunely given to selected journalists, and finally, they chose TV as their preferred means of communication with the electorate. Only, surely, PM José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero did not fit in this scheme and was somewhat more accessible.

Pedro Sánchez likes playing with electoral risk, but he is not the only one. Even when every country find new elections a bad option because of the months of political uncertainty they may bring -with ministries paralysed which no economy can escape the negative consequences from- Spain, in that too, is different. Even the big employer association, the CEOE, considers elections a good option because they think that "the country will be more stable". That is, the socialist in Office PSOE and the right wing PP will grow, right liberal Ciudadanos and left wing Podemos will go down and extreme right Vox will be diluted. A return to bipartisanship, even if it is imperfect. But elections always carry risk with them and, more than five months away, many things may change. Politics is 'liquid', as they say, everything is moving, that is. The PSOE has good cards, the best, but who knows. Would it not be much easier to get used to dialogue, respect the mandate of the citizens and agree? We others do it, at our level, every day. Why politicians do not?