The uniqueness of a political strategist is often in approaching issues from a different perspective. Are there no State pacts in Spain? It depends on what is considered as such. “We must banish the idea that only the PSOE and the PP can make State pacts. Now we are in a multiparty system,” political consultant Iván Redondo pointed out this Thursday, at a lunch-discussion at the Cercle del Liceu. Before thirty members of the Barcelona entity, led by the president, Francisco Gaudier, Redondo addressed various current political issues, among which the amnesty law could not be missing, again in the foreground after the PSOE agreement, ERC and Junts to unblock its parliamentary processing. “It is the first State pact and there will be more. Now we are in a multiparty system,” he stressed.
Redondo, as readers of the articles that he publishes every Monday in La Vanguardia know well, has been and is a firm defender of the amnesty, and of those who first defended the opportunities for reconciliation that would result in a criminal oblivion for those prosecuted by the processes. “The process is part of a past stage. The independence movement may not be very clear about its future, but the people who promote the amnesty want to move forward,” he stressed. In this sense, he has assured that “the amnesty is the news of the decade” 2014-2024.
He has also made the prediction that the current legislature “can reach 2027.” That is, Pedro Sánchez and his government could end their current mandate. “The amnesty is different from what we have experienced because for the first time people who have left politics are all back in. For me the amnesty can be stability,” he noted.
Faithful to his style and his skills as a communicator, the Godó Group’s editorial advisor has managed to weave in his speech the main issues of Catalan, Spanish and European politics, responding to the title of the meeting: “Europe, Spain, Catalonia: total reunion ”.
The chief political editor of La Vanguardia, Silvia Angulo, led the first part of the intervention, before giving way to the discussion with the members of the Cercle del Liceu in attendance, including Marisa Falcó, Countess of Godó, and the actress Mónica Randall. , personal friend of the lecturer.
Moving from one topic to another, Redondo has been slipping several headlines, among them that the Koldo case, the scandal over alleged corruption in the purchase of masks during the pandemic that affects the PSOE, is taking its toll on Pedro Sánchez. “The president is made of iron, but he has a heart and I feel his pain,” said the person who was his close collaborator in Moncloa between 2018 and 2021, as director of the Presidency cabinet.
However, he has defended Sánchez’s actions in the Koldo case, promoting the expulsion from the PSOE and the Socialist Group in Congress of José Luis Ábalos, who was Minister of Transport and signed one of the alleged people involved in the plot as an advisor. Koldo García, who gives name to the summary. “For me, the fachosphere is like the koldosphere. And the best thing it has done is treat Koldo as if he were from the PP,” Redondo said. He has also celebrated the actions of the Congress and the Senate, promoting investigative commissions into this alleged case of corruption, as well as the actions of the third branch of the State, the judges. “A State response is being given,” he celebrated.
Regarding the PP, he has ruled out that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is a rival who could put at risk the leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the head of the main opposition party. Was it in the past? It is not now: “Politics are moments. “I don’t see it as a threat at all,” he said.
And he has not forgotten to make yet another prediction, based on his analysis, this one about the elections to the European Parliament, which in Spain are held on June 9 and with a single constituency. “We are going to see how the right has only one or two more deputies than the PSOE and all the plurinationals combined. For me that is Spain,” he said.
“The barrage of ideas is such, one after another, that it is difficult to summarize. We have talked a lot about amnesty, rest and that politics are moments,” Gaudier summarized, at the closing. Redondo readers already know what they are talking about.
