The economist Ramón Tamames used his turn to reply as a candidate for the presidency proposed by Vox to complain about the vigor of the responses received and at the same time praise the effect of the session. He intervened immediately after the PSOE spokesman, Patxi López, and began by saying that the responses of the deputies to his proposal had been a “spurious meeting.” He was offended by the scolding he received during the long session: “What we have just seen is an exacerbation of the ability to criticize, but targeting the worst of everything (sic).”
And yet, at the same time that he protested because, according to his criteria, a “friend, enemy” dynamic had been installed that violated the “fundamental principles of coexistence”, he also said that the session had been useful: “We have not lost time”. In fact, he came to compare what he experienced in these two sessions with the “impressive” motion of no confidence by Felipe González against Adolfo Suárez in 1980. “Impressive”, he repeated.
On the one hand, he assured that the attitude of the spokesmen of the parliamentary groups towards him “is not a way to receive anyone, let alone a candidate”, and on the other, he said that the impact that the motion of censure had had “on the media and the social networks” was proof of the political “liveliness” of the country, because “it has not been less than then”, alluding to 1980.
She answered the speakers in a flash, proposed a picturesque reflection on feminism praising the figure of Isabel La Católica and once again complained about the lack of time dedicated by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the Moroccan question. He sprinkled his speech with anecdotes from the past, from people he met, he stressed that he had found the speech by Mireia Vehí, spokesperson for the CUP, very interesting, “especially regarding the question of Catalonia” – to the surprise of the deputies of the CUP and horror of those of Vox– and once again proclaimed the Spanishness of Gibraltar as the great affront suffered by the homeland.
His response to the PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, was especially extravagant, to whom he friendly told that he has a lot of respect for everything Basque, talked about when he used to hang out with Pío Baroja, praised his pen and then referred to his cell companionship in 1976 with prisoners from ETA in Carabanchel, when he was part of the commune of the platajunta, said that he already reprimanded them then for pursuing the independence of the Basque Country and ordered them to work.
In a chamber in which the then PP deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo called the father of the Vice President of the Government, at the time, Pablo Iglesias, a “terrorist” for distributing communist leaflets in 1973, the body of the deputies of Vox and the PP the familiarity that Tamames boasted with the ETA prisoners, according to his own account, a year after Franco’s death.
He dedicated a unique section, in line with what has been said, to criticize the anti-Franco regime of those who were not born then or compromised with tyranny, and he resolved it with an old epigram: “A dead Moor, a great lance.”
The saying makes fun of those who are brave and challenging with those who have already been defeated. He spoke Tamames of Franco and anti-fascism, remembering his condition of reprisal from him, but it could well be a request for arnica after the downpour he received. After all, that aphorism is the title of an oil painting by Bernardo Ferrándiz y Bádenes dedicated to Juan Facundo Riaño y Montero that is in the Prado Museum and that accompanies the following legend: “A dead Moor, great spear. Fierce king yesterday for you, my legends gave respect, and today that death is in me, even you come to tread the dust of what I was!
