How governments fall

In democracies, governments begin to fall the day they decide to send the police to beat citizens. They don't fall that same day, nor the next, but when they make this colossal mistake, this unacceptable mistake, they are badly wounded. Beating citizens when they protest peacefully and legitimately is a sign of authoritarianism, but also of weakness. Of not knowing how to govern. They are very poor credentials to present themselves later at the polls.The direct political official responsible for the police charges against the demonstration —massive, historic— of July 26 is the government delegate Alfonso Rodríguez. Even if he did not order them and is against them, as he has declared, it is he who must assume political responsibility for them. Also, even if Pedro Sánchez has supported him with the disdain and ignorance that all Spanish presidents have always had in relation to the society, politics, and reality of the Balearic Islands. If it is true that delegate Rodríguez did not order the charges and is against them, then he must resign for not having known how to exercise his office and for having allowed the so-called security forces and bodies to act in the Balearic Islands outside or against his criteria (he was also against the detention of the activists from Santa Maria, but the detention did occur). Incompetence is also a reason to lose one's position.However, delegate Rodríguez is politically responsible for these events, but he is not the politician who benefits from them. Nor is he, for that matter, the one who enjoys them and even has fun with them. No: it is the politicians of the PP and Vox, who are in the Government and who have had a great time watching the government delegate do their dirty work. But the days have passed and things have become clear enough for those who want to see them. Going to Almudaina and explaining to Felipe VI (with the fake smile of the best occasions) that there is tourist overcrowding due to the socialists and then meeting with Pedro Sánchez making faces in the photos is not a solid argument. Nor are the sustainability tables that are born dead, nor the statements in which "saturation" is admitted while legislating to deregulate the protection of rural land and natural spaces. The PP and Vox would do well to advise some discretion to their domesticated journalists: some have even let slip, these days, that the baton blows of July 26 were "never better delivered". We have reasons to suspect that this is an opinion widely shared among the leaders of the parties that support the Government.The fact is that 70,000 Majorcans took to the streets on July 26 to say they are fed up with paying the consequences of the greed of a few. Police charges will only lead to more protests: the first, on Saturday, August 8 in Sóller, also convened by the platform Menys Turisme Més Vida, which will once again be a great success in participation and mobilization. Then there will be more, and all will be peaceful, civic, democratic, impeccable. Governments begin to fall like this. If President Prohens doesn't believe it, she can ask her friend M. Rajoy. The police charges in Catalonia for October 1 had something to do with the fact that eight months later a motion of no confidence against it succeeded. It also has to do with the fact that, even today, the PP has no political alliance with anyone other than the far-right Vox. It starts by hitting people, or laughing when they are hit, and ends up locked in a corner with fascists.