I use to go to Galicia, the region is above Portugal, two weeks a month. I will be next week there and surely I will have a deeper knowledge of what happened yesterday on the Regional Parliament: the PP voted to “look for a consensus” on the plan that the regional government is promoting to impose the gallego (the regional language) in the schools and in the Galician society. Hours later, the leader of the PP on Galicia, Mr. Feijóo (former president of Correos, the public mail company in Spain), said that, if he becomes president of that region, he will repeal that imposition.

Frankly speaking, I do not understand this movement on the PP on Galicia: on one hand, it seems to act as a national party; on the other hand, it is trying to sympathize with the pro-nationalists. And the problem is that this is not only a regional fact: it is a sympthom of the national politics of the PP. The PP is playing this double play with their voters: it is showing itself to them as the only party with a national vision, but is willing to have some agreements with nationalists parties, sharing, in some way, their proposals.

This is specially true when it comes to Galicia and the PP leader on this region. Let me remember something: the problem with the gallego comes from the times of Manuel Fraga being regional president. He established a model of cohabitation of the gallego with the Spanish that was a copy of the Catalonian model. The evolution in Catalonia is clear, and the evolution in Galicia tends to be similar. Now, Mr. Feijóo is a prisoner (a voluntary prisoner) of the politics of Manuel Fraga and the current tendency on the national leadership of the PP: something similar to what we call in Spain to swim and to guard the clothes, that is, to try to sound convincing to both its voters and pro-nationalists voters. Something impossible.

That is why Mr. Feijóo, the postman, always have to talk twice.

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