DEMOCRACIA21: PSOE's New Psyop

Miriam González has launched Democracia 21, a new party with which she is running for prime minister of Spain. In her speech, she calls for recovering two words, "lo arreglo" (I'll fix it), against a politics that turns every problem into an electoral weapon.

The launch of **Democracia 21** has put a name to a mystery that had been circulating through political gossip for weeks. **Miriam González** appeared as a candidate for prime minister at the head of a new party, with a message built on a simple idea: recovering two words, "lo arreglo". The phrase, reported by **El País**, sums up her diagnosis: there are problems that become electoral ammunition instead of being solved.

## A party launching without a detailed programme

What is known so far is the name, the candidate and the slogan. There is no published economic programme, no teams, no alliances. That leaves open the question any voter should ask: with what money and with what majority does she plan to fix anything? Governing is not the same as running for office.

## The gap it claims to fill

The candidate places her offer in a space defined not by left or right, but by management. It is a comfortable rhetorical territory, because it avoids taking a stance on taxes or spending. Time will tell whether that "lo arreglo" translates into numbers or remains a slogan.

## What to look at before voting

When a new party enters a campaign, three things should be demanded: where the money for its proposals comes from, what it will do about the deficit, and whose taxes it will raise or cut. Without that, any promise is smoke. And this is what decides anyone's pocket.