Murder at the Central Committee
It was not necessary for the Central Committee to turn off the lights for a few minutes in order to assassinate the Secretary General of the PCE, Fernando Garrido. Neither Commissioner Fonseca nor Detective Carvalho will be in charge of the official investigation by the Party to clarify the facts. Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Congress of Deputies was officially beheaded at the Board of Directors last Thursday at noon in the middle of August, with the complicity of those in attendance in Genoa 13 and the virtual ones by the coronavirus from all provinces. A ritual murder for "hurting" the authority of the president of the Supreme Soviet, Pablo Casado and for "winning the elections". Political death to the ideological and liberal engineer, burying her with her plans and strategies for the future.
The clearest voice against the coup
The pandemic has taken away a person who believes in the Constitution, in democracy, in freedom and who has always stood up to the arrogance and lies of the left. A courageous, prepared, intelligent policy, with its own criteria and which has denounced the danger posed by Sanchist socialism, the communism of the Churches and the Nazi agreements of the PVN, Otegui and the coup leaders of Puigdemón and Junqueras to put an end to the Transition of '78 and to the unity of Spain through a plurinational break to return to the Second Republic. And to enter the III, naturally. The new normality.
Cayetana has been the clearest voice against the country's enemies in Parliament since his nomination just over a year ago and the only one who urged European leaders in the Financial Times in 2014 to "openly confront" the separatists in the face of the Rajoy government's inaction. She was the promoter of Free and Equal, the only civic institution that mobilized millions of constitutionalists against the 1-0 seditionists. I am proud to work at her side and to attend the demonstrations in Barcelona and Madrid that led to the royal speech of October 3, 2017.
A spokeswoman who in her first appearance asked at point-blank range in the Parliamentary Group: do you agree that matters of conscience (abortion, euthanasia, living will, religion, etc...) can be voted on freely? He obtained nothing but an infinite silence, the tip-off to the dome, the reprimand and to shepherd the silence of the lambs. It's logical that he hit the machine. And the "aparaticks" have no mercy. Every member of a party who is promoted to a paid position (councillor, deputy, senator, junior minister, advisor, under-secretary, minister...) automatically becomes a "soldier" in defence (rightly or wrongly) of the commander-in-chief, his lieutenant the secretary general and the board of directors. A full-blown militarization even in times of peace.
Álvarez de Toledo, (CAT), who holds a doctorate from Oxford and Spain by personal decision - although he also has French and Argentine nationality - has tried to regenerate political life after the Frankenstein motion against Rajoy. She had strongly opposed the PP to be part of the pastry for the renewal of the CJPJ, the TC and the SC because "they are the last retaining wall of Justice to avoid going back to the 1930s", and she opposed like many of us openly to the King Emeritus leaving Spain by imposition of Churches and with the approval of Sanchez who has become the Queen Mother and the guardian of Philip VI. Sanchez, the Savior of the Parliamentary Monarchy. Send Trillos!
Cayetana has left office with the same elegance with which she arrived. But with more dignity. Her press conference, in the middle of the street - the PP prevented her after her interview with Fra-Casado from using the room of the Congress - confirms that she has been thrown out by Feijó, Teo, the barons with and without command in the square and EL PAIS, which as always continues to lead the government and the opposition. "She was free and very radical," are some of the accusations of the legion of mediocre people who have always maintained corruption in our country. CAT, responded along with her colleague and friend Pilar Marcos, - sometimes it is a pride to be a journalist - in the middle of the street: "Is it radical to oppose the most radical and ultra-democratic government? Spain would need twenty policies of the stature of CAT to stop the process of moral, health, economic and social destruction that will lead directly to the seven million unemployed with its unpredictable multidirectional repercussions".
Radicals with the Magna Carta
It seems that the two years of Casado's presidency take us back to moderation, centrality, and not to the tension of Moncloa. Collectivity and militarization are incompatible with the constructive and creative force of freedom and critical thought. "Discrepancy is not disloyalty," insisted Cayetana in the Carrera de San Jerónimo, under an impenitent sun. Fifteen minutes of solid arguments to dismantle that "this is not about hard or soft, moderates and radicals, but about stopping a government that has become podemized" to the extent that it is Iglesias and the mother of his children who set the strategy, the rhythms and the times to cover up their shamefulness of the B box, their irregular finances, their payment of black money to employees and their attacks on the Head of State and Justice without Pedro Sánchez stopping the charge against the legitimate Institutions of the Nation.
Is it radical to ask that judges elect judges and to end the politicization of Justice? Is it unfair to ask for a government of constitutionalist concentration PSOE-PP-Cs to save Spain from this pandemic and to get out of the crisis as soon as possible, all together and stronger? It seems so. And finally: "do we anchor ourselves in the extreme right when we try to neutralize the cultural battle that the left is winning because it is beaten by identity radicalism, radical feminism - "I want to arrive home alone and drunk on 8M"- or to confront the Historical Memory of ZP?
CAT believes that the PP should be broadened with progressive voices that believe in the legacy of the Magna Carta, in the Parliamentary Monarchy, in freedom and in truth. We agree with her that the values of our civilization are at stake. And that in nationalism there is neither moderation nor stability but confrontation. Objectives: defence of the constitutional order, of the middle classes and of citizens.
The cynicism of moderation
When two years ago, Pablo Casado won the presidency of the Party with a regenerationist speech, many of us were confident that we were before a true statesman. After two general elections, the European regional and municipal elections and the regional elections of the Basque Country and Galicia, have confirmed that he is more fickle than a weather vane in the Alps. He has signed up CAT as a star and he has ceased -as the visionary emperor that he already is- "to win the elections and get 10 million votes".
That Casado allowed Feijóo to boycott her in the Galician elections was a symptom that his days were numbered. Did he forget his courage in Catalonia? After members of the board of directors humiliated her by spreading political garbage "CAT was a spokesperson for herself", Pablo Casado, with his voice embellished, lying in the best register, as do the vice-president Pablo and the president Pedro, left this phrase engraved in the history of infamy: "Cayetana, this will always be your home". There is no room for greater cynicism after cutting off his head hours earlier in a tense meeting where the "mediocre" imposed themselves.
The PP has returned directly to the Rajoyism. Its tancredism led us to two illegal referendums, to an unworthy motion of censure and to a change so dramatic that it has put Spain on the edge of the abyss without the first opposition party having presented any alternatives other than those defended against all odds in Congress by the former spokesperson Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo. Who is going to save the PP at the end of this hot autumn in Catalonia with the catanazis? Best wishes to Cuca Gamarra, the successor in the GP and to José Luis Martínez Almeida, mayor and great alibi for Franco for sharing the leadership of the PSOE in Madrid and the Government Delegation. Both institutions deserve exclusive dedication.
The gregarious behavior of the "popular soldiers" has not been surprising. A few days ago, they defended CAT in private, of course. When I connected with some of them by wp, the response was as expected: silence. To the decapitated queen, long live the former mayor of La Rioja! The parties must be democratic. There's no way anymore. Emperors don't take no for an answer. We learned that before at Villaverde 2, at Ferraz, 80 and now at Genoa, 13.
Married has also disappointed us. At Moncloa, the apostles Peter and Paul are delighted that the blonde Spanish-Argentine-French arrow, the great Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, is placed in the Hemicycle where the seats enter the space and time of oblivion. Invisibility. Thank you, Mr. Fra-Casado, for having chosen the past. How can the 10 million votes be recovered if this moderate and complex PP does not accommodate a talent like CAT?
Life goes on almost the same way
When the government decreed the state of alert in mid-March, we would never have imagined that five months later Spain would still be at the head of the dead, of those infected and with the most affected health workers. We have not yet counted the casualties of this endless war, (almost 50,000) nor do we know why this non-existent committee of experts does not explain why we continue to be the country with the most contaminated, day after day. Fernando Simón, in a show of good sense - which he has not had since the first week - now says that the issue is serious, very serious and very very serious... Until now, nothing happened. To ask the influencers to spread the word that the coronavirus is very dangerous is a temerity: He has been trying for 190 days and 190 nights to convince us that this epidemic is lethal and Ivan Redondo's ideas factory has not stopped bombarding us with the fact that everything was under control. Apparently, the virtual meetings with the presidents of the Autonomous Regions have not been very useful. The measures taken between the government and the Regions have been largely dismissed by the justice system, which understands that fundamental rights are being violated.
New confinement? I don't think so because we have strangled the economy and the ERTES and ERES are assuring us of a too violent autumn. Why can't we know what is going wrong so that we can continue to be at the forefront of contagion and hospitals are filling up with younger patients? If Mr. Simon is still at his post, he can guess that Barça could lose to Bayer by "1-0 or 2-1 at the most" and he is so calm. That's the new normality, the uncertainty.
What has happened in Catalonia has been of an incomparable incompetence. The only thing missing from Torra's speech about the Championships was that "Germany is stealing from us". We ourselves, the elders, have already confined ourselves again to prevent death from spreading. Party scenes on beaches or at celebrations are simply unpresentable. Economic repressive measures? The Chinese bug will go away with its music somewhere else. Nothing ever happens here.
The greatest enemy of the pandemic is a lie. We don't show the dead and the young people don't believe the truth. The government that led the process immediately got rid of the dead and the residences, gave the junk to the Autonomies and there began to emerge the chaos that finds only a poisonous channel: uncertainty. How is it possible that there is not a real committee of experts who take the same measures for the whole country?
Absent classes and ministers
We have the worst government in a democracy, but the Minister of Education and the Minister of Universities (Celáa y Castell) are the most inept ministers of the last centuries. They have not been able to take any measures for the 2020-2021 school year, which is opening in public schools, private schools, subsidized schools, secondary schools and universities. The day doesn't end until the sun goes down, but for these unpresentable types - the Bilbao and Albacete people - they seem to live in London in fog all year round.
Spain is falling behind in the recovery and thousands of families are waiting to find out whether or not they can take their children to school safely. Will these egalitarian socialists take advantage of this crisis to take on the special education that affects thousands of economically vulnerable families? And the concerted one?
While the country burns on all four sides, Peter and Paul on vacation- The president is the new Prince of the Tide and the new worker with a tie from Doñana. The photos of both events, simply obscene. The meeting at the seashore of the minister Juan Carlos Campo with the condemned Manuel Chaves (both without mask) when the SC is about to pass the sentence of the Audiencia Nacional, is immoral. The number of the Iglesias-Montero only demonstrates one thing: that wherever they go, whether they are called Segovia or Asturias, they are not wanted. It is true that their children are not to blame for the escraches - escraches that they have been devising for decades in the Faculty of Politics in Madrid - but neither are the children of all the people who have not been able to take holidays this year because the Government's erroneous measures have left them in ruins.
Immoral strike
The chain of strikes that will begin at the beginning of September by the unions in Madrid, (mainly UGT and CCOO), while they are condemned for stealing 40 million euros from training courses in Andalusia, are immoral; claiming in this scenario blackmail from a decade ago, corroborates that the role of unions in the 21st century has to change and they have to live on their fees. Last year -it is worth remembering- the two main trade unions shared out almost 20 million of the budgets, not counting those of the Autonomous Regions, the Provincial Councils, the Town Halls and the rest of the Official Institutions.
By the way, none of the released teachers will join the face-to-face classes because their job is to do politics. These guys don't do politics; they manufacture desires, fears and feelings to continue living from the story. And, meanwhile, they destabilise the government of Madrid in the hands of the centre right. More chaos will have to be provoked until citizens are convinced that a motion of censure against Isabel Díaz Ayuso is possible. And in this context we must contemplate the denialist demonstration of the coronavirus authorized by the Socialists in the Plaza de Colón and sponsored by the singer Miguel Bosé who, logically, stayed at home. His video justification shows that he is in urgent need of medical treatment.
Let us put the world to zero from today before the change of course prevents us from seeing what is on the other side of the road. After Cayetana's political assassination, let us seek a constitutional pact to avoid poisoning coexistence. So much accumulated hatred has robbed us of the dreams of the worst summer and autumn of our lives. To divide, agitate and blame others. This is the common denominator of Spanish politics.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán offers in his novel "Murder in the Central Committee" as a background a rigorous political landscape and in the horizon an enigma of the future of Spain. Today the background is more uncertainty and the enigma more insecurity. Only a constitutional government can bring us the confidence and the guarantee to get out of this tsunami. And protect us from this scourge.
Neither Peter nor Paul, the tenants of La Moncloa, have the right to a lifetime of happiness. Especially if it is at our expense. We insist: let us bet on a constitutional government, even if we preach in the middle of the desert. After six months of a pandemic, the future comes sooner and sooner, and it always catches up with the past.