Objective: to dynamite the Magna Carta
Forty-three years and three days later, the Spanish Constitution of 1978 is still being harassed by the new supremacists of the 21st century: the seditious nazional-socialists of ERC and Junts, the blackmailers of the PNV, the bilduetarras of Otegui and what is worse, by the two coalition parties in the Government of the Nation, PSOE and Podemos.
The photo of Meritxell Batet and Pedro Sánchez, the absence of the Government's travelling companions and the inexplicable escape of Santiago Abascal (VOX) confirms that the lions of the Cortes are roaring ¡Basta Ya! and ¡Hasta aquí hemos llegado! It is easy to see why we have come this far: the lack of courage (with or without majorities) of the tenants of La Moncloa in the face of the nationalists. With the generosity of the doctor president to continue to ride on the back of the Falcon's power, we have crossed all the red lines: constitutional, parliamentary, institutional and budgetary, which endanger the unity of Spain as a nation.
While Batet launched a speech against the opposition for "unnecessarily trying to politicise Justice" - she, who asked the Supreme Court for explanations to disqualify the Canary Islands MP Alberto Fernández for kicking a policeman - Don Pedro, wearing a coat unsuitable for the occasion, turned himself into the maximum defender of the Law of Laws, stressing that the best tribute is to "enforce it from "A to Z". Would he be referring to 'La Pepa' of 1812? All this, when his ex-minister Juan Carlos Campos spoke in parliament that "the constituent period has already begun". For this Frankenstein government, the "new time" inaugurated by Sánchez three and a half years ago is destitutive-constitutive. They do not want reforms but replacement.
When his parliamentary group voted hours earlier in favour of the "ongi etorri", considered a serious crime by the Penal Code, The Sanchism began its saga-escape into the abyss. It was not a NO to Ciudadanos, who presented the initiative, but a NO to the victims of terrorism and a YES to Bildu to support the 2022 Budgets that will allow him to rule -because this man rules, not governs- until 2024. A 50-month legislature, clearly undemocratic. And authoritarian.
He claims to comply with the Constitution, but the High Court has ruled that the Confinement Decrees and the lockdown of Congress and the Senate are not in accordance with the law. As Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo rightly said, "Parliament does not close even in times of war". She says she did it to save lives, but we already know that Yolanda Díaz warned her of the danger of holding the 8-M demonstration. She was branded an alarmist. Her declarations ratify the opportunism of the "transversal candidate without a party" and the sectarianism of the entire executive. Too late for the dead.
On that cold morning of the 6th, her associates portrayed themselves with total freedom, the freedom protected by our Fundamental Law. They demand not a radical reform but that it be dynamited. Disunidos Podemos describes our highway of coexistence as an "old suit" and demands the abolition of the Parliamentary Monarchy; Aragonés calls for a "Catalan Constitution", the Christian democrats and meapilas of the PNV "the recognition of the Basque nation", Bildu for independence and Iñigo Errejón, -the one of the Black scholarships and controller of independent bodies to continue sucking from the state teat-, the one of Más Madrid (who does not dare to lead MÁS ESPAÑA but MÁS PAÍS) bets for federalism, environmental rights and for taking care of the planet". OK.
The Sanchism and the PSC are silent against the left of the left. They forget that at the 45th Federal Congress, the sole leader commissioned the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, to implement a constitutional reform that goes beyond the federalism of the insubstantial document of San Sebastián and Granada. His intention is to return to the Second Republic of Largo Caballero, which led us to corruption, massacres, the burning of convents, libraries and museums, the robbery of the Bank of Spain and civil war. A republic betrayed by all, including the fascists of ERC, who staged a coup d'état in Catalonia, before going into exile in Bruno Mussolini's Rome. And they keep quiet about it as if they were lifelong democrats. Remember their former president Heribert Barrera?
It was a revolutionary and Stalinist PSOE whose philosophy has transmuted into populism and whose leadership is exercised, without losing his smile or his shame, by Maduro's ambassador to Latin America, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the man responsible for appointing Raúl Morodo ambassador to Venezuela, a corrupt ambassador-accountant with his entire family. What do we know about Delcy's suitcases? And about the statements and papers of El Pollo Carvajal? Our erratic foreign policy - not only in Morocco - is endorsing the revolutionary processes in Caracas, Managua, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Lima or Mexico.
Pedro Sánchez is reforming the Magna Carta through the back door (pardons for coup plotters, whitewashing of Bildu, release from prison of ETA members with blood crimes, delegitimisation of the State Institutions, negotiations with secessionists, disproportionate economic privileges for Barcelona and Vitoria, dismantling of the National Police and the Civil Guard, emptying of depopulated Spain, and the end is simple: to enable the self-determination of Catalonia and the Basque Country with the danger of contagion to the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and Navarre, already subjects of the Generalitat and Ajuria Enea. That is to say, to move from a plurinational Spain to the rupture of the Unity of the Homeland.
Only PP and PSOE can stop this bleeding of institutional deterioration but they will not do so because the important thing is to maintain themselves and share out the positions in the highest levels of the State. It must be recognised that the PSOE's propaganda has cowed Casado's PP and has sold out for a plate of lentils (betraying Ayuso by giving the go-ahead to the unworthy Gabilondo and Mariscal de Gante in the Court of Auditors to make way for Podemos' lawyer. The key piece in the political chess is about to fall: the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). It will be the checkmate to Justice, to the special majorities for reforms and appointments. Everything will be done by simple majorities. Goodbye Montesquieu, goodbye, if the PP does not manage, as a minimum counterpart, to return to the spirit of the Constitution and article 122 in the next renewal.
That one cannot study in Castilian in one's own land is beyond belief. But it is a fact. For 40 years, language immersion has separated citizens and damaged coexistence. The guilty parties are the nationalists, insatiable for power and manipulating consciences, and President José María Aznar, who prevented the Catalan Language Immersion Law from being taken to the Constitutional Court. Vidal Quadras' head made possible the "Majestic Pact" (1996) between Rodrigo Rato and the then Molt Honorable Jordi Pujol, today head of a family of corruption outlaws, who emptied the coffers of the Generalitat.
Imposition, denunciation and supremacism put an end to equal opportunities. The Basque Country, Navarre and Galicia followed the path of cultural racism, and then the popular and socialist rulers of the Balearic Islands and Valencia willingly paid the price. And even in Aragon. Today, they are branches of Barcelona. The latest exclusion: the official status of Bable and, in the process of development, Castilian in Extremadura.
The image of the then Minister of Public Administration and Vice-President Manuel María Cháves (Ceuta, 1945) in the Senate, listening to José Montilla (Iznájar, Córdoba, 1955), President of the Generalitat, with an earpiece for simultaneous translation, is one of the most miserable snapshots of politics in the whole of the Transition. Now, the new president of the Upper House will allow Catalonia to present documents in Catalan. More Catalan translators, more bureaucracy, more waste, more dependence and more political slavery. All this in the midst of a crisis.
The Catalan government's refusal to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling that at least 25% of subjects must be taught in Spanish explains why the family that has demanded its rights has been threatened and the child persecuted by classmates and teachers. The Minister of Education and a Mosso de Esquadra have declared war on the dissident. The KKK is here. It is not the prelude to fascism. It is the Nazism of '33. We have already gone through several nights of broken glass while Barcelona burned and the cowardly Minister of the Interior, Grande-Marlaska in collusion with the head of that Department in Catalonia declined to provide means to the agents. A lot of tanks in Cadiz, but not a single "milkmaid" to put the insurgent coup plotters of the CDR to shame.
In all this, what has the Sánchez government said, which meets twice a week in continuous session and a double programme to multiply propaganda? The spokeswoman has no news of the hate crime against the family and the child and the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría de Acueducto complete. And the State Prosecutor's Office? With Dolores Delgado (the 24th minister) and her prevaricating compadre, you can't count on her because she will be beating the King Emeritus for no reason and humiliating the prosecutor Stampa to death.
Taking advantage of a train trip to Salamanca, I made a three-hour stopover in the city of Ávila de los Caballeros to visit the tomb of President Adolfo Suárez and his wife Amparo Illana in the cathedral and to thank the most relevant politician of our time. Suárez is change, democracy and freedom with Torcuato Fernández Miranda travelling from "law to law". The Moncloa Pacts were the highway for the Constitution to take off, unbound by the past, for the first time. There is no lack of fresh flowers on the tomb, and despite the cold and rain, the sun shone brightly through the glass panes in the north-eastern part of the inner courtyard. The light was so bright that you could hardly read his epitaph-message. Concord was possible. It is a great legacy. But his favourite words, he repeated them constantly, were three: freedom, ethics and austerity. He was a tireless defender of effort and equal opportunities.
The 78 Constitution should be studied in public and public schools. What is not known is neither valued nor loved. And beyond these two years of the Chinese plague, this government has not been able to bring forward a Pandemic Law, leaving everything in the hands of 17 kingdoms of Taifas. Yesterday, the president boasted that he has done all the homework proposed by the German tripartite of Chancellor Olaf Scholz; the grandson of the railwayman: Scholz maintains a parity government, yes, but with 16 ministers for a country of 83 million citizens; Sánchez is appeasing a macro-government of two parties with 22 ministers for 47 million taxpayers, who live in legal insecurity, in lies, in reactionary populism and in arbitrariness. It has created first and second class citizens.
Maybe the Magna Carta needs a facelift. Never an explosive charge to dynamite it from within. The Constitution is the refuge of our freedoms, as my countryman and friend Antonio Robles proclaims, and the greatest collective achievement of our time; it is worth reading as soon as possible, in this time of harassment and demolition of the Magna Carta, the essay by the master from Leon, Santiago Trancón, "España sentenciada, pero no vencida" (Spain sentenced, but not defeated), despite useless politicians and bizcochables judges. We will continue in the Resistance. Concord is still possible. Long live the Constitution!
Antonio REGALADO directs BAHÍA DE ÍTACA in: aregaladorodriguez.blogs.com