The malaguan Carlos Ruiz Zafón took out of his wit the cemetery of forgotten books, which he located in an old palace in Barcelona’s Raval, where there was a labyrinth of out-of-print works, which was the nexus of the tetralogy L’ombra del vent . In the same way, in the Congress of Deputies there should be a cemetery of failed ideas, which serves to witness the occurrences of political parties in moments of lack of inspiration or obvious haste. The latest of these unfortunate initiatives has been the proposal to implement a new crime of “constitutional disloyalty”, which would be punishable by the dissolution of parties that promote an illegal referendum or an illegal declaration of independence.
The PP’s public justification is that the debate on constitutional disloyalty could act as a smokescreen for the parliamentary discussion on amnesty. But, in addition, the dissolution of parties because of their ideas collides head-on with the spirit of the Constitution. All the parties criticized the legislative proposal and, in view of the discussion it provoked, Alberto Núñez Feijóo showed his willingness to give the initiative another go. It wasn’t just one turn, but several more that they gave it, until the lawyers who had to smooth it out became dizzy, which is why it ended up in a drawer, which is where the documents that make us laugh end up. For the time being and until further notice, the people have decided to postpone its registration in Congress, which is an act of prudence.
The drawers are a Dalinian symbol, who thought of them as a metaphor for the unconscious. For the artist, human beings are like drawers of many drawers where we keep things that we prefer that others do not know. One of Dalí’s most famous sculptures is the Venus de Milo with drawers, he also drew Freud with a drawer ajar on his forehead or imagined a city of drawers. Maybe one day someone will discover this text in the cemetery of failed ideas and maybe give it to him for a novel, in which the mystery would be how the right went from agreeing with the Catalan nationalists to trying to dissolve it in a short time.
