Too many giggles about the motion of no confidence that Ramón Tamames will lead. Peripatetic, ridiculous, extravagant, grotesque and wandering. Choose adjective. Too much interest among the priests in his fading: “Don’t do it, Ramón!”. And yet, in politics, when expectations are too low and you overreact in one direction, there is usually a better chance of transcending with a simple thud. Just one is enough, but let it sound. And, in fact, from the hand of Tamames, this sixth motion of democracy has spread among its lordships like gas. There has been such ecstasy from inhaling helium that a good part of our politicians have changed the timbre of their voices when they appeal to Ramón, with the exception of the lehendakari in Congress, his honor Aitor from him. Helium, like Tamames, is not flammable, not explosive, and has no (political) color. But it is a matter of great propagation. Being able to cause at high levels of exposure, as we have seen, fainting, dizziness and pain, even among some Vox leaders.
Everything has a reason. Don Ramón knows the helium effect well. Elio’s Story, without the H, was written when he was 43 years old, I read it at 18. It is a novel about the life of a friend, Elio, with several points that coincide with the present. We have an economist, a senior state official (Ramón?), an opinion on policies in a society without a name (in his speech tomorrow, the Spanish one), the transition from a dictatorship to democracy shouting “Trans -mission!” (of powers) that rhymes with Motion!, and of course, in the outcome of it, an Elio who ends up leading the Government in “provision”. The work, which came third in the final of the 1977 Planeta prize, conveys a core idea that Ramón will surely expand on in the motion. I share an excerpt: “It is not enough to conquer power. Nor is it enough that this power is legitimized through subsequent democratic elections. There is something deeper that we must not forget, compañeros deputies: that popular power, which is ours, has to assume the desires of the people day by day; be aware of their aspirations and discuss their problems continuously, preventing any situation from becoming rotten”.
And what is it that smells rotten? In our interview yesterday, Tamames said: “The problem is Frankenstein” (the Coalition). It is not, therefore, a pilgrim operation. Eye. The Spanish have a political culture. They do not underestimate the motion or Ramón and they will be attentive. They are two motions in one and there can be two results: that of Tamames as an independent and that of Santiago Abascal. The first, at 89 years old, has already technically won his prize in the promotion. An example: it was an “accident”, but if the leak of his speech had been interested it would have been technically genius. Thanks to this, many of his messages have arrived literally clean, without the pimpampum of the debate, such as that of Spain as an “absorbent autocracy.” The chronicles of a debate collect what one says and what others said. And today you all already know the opinion of Tamames and the motion has not even started yet. Managing to get the motion out of the chamber. And straining his discursive gas through all the cracks of homes and bars in Spain, like Tito Berni.
The profitability for Vox of the motion remains to be seen. It intends, without a doubt, to make a PP-Vox government more palatable as an alternative. That is its purpose. If Tamames has not been disgusting and has accepted Vox, why not Alberto Núñez Feijóo? “If you were my father, I wouldn’t leave you,” the Galician told Ramón. Be careful with setting roles in politics, the devil loads them. Who acts as son and father? We are openly against the motion, but we have never underestimated it in this war room. We even proposed the entry on the scene of other ministers such as Yolanda Díaz, as well as that the president respond not only to Abascal but, of course, to the candidate, to reduce his effects. Time management is something else. We have therefore been warning for weeks of its consequences for PSOE and PP. Be careful with the tone, the forms, you must master respect. It comes at a very anti-political time. With Tamames transformed into Helium, genius and figure, with H and without H. Definitely, there are plenty of giggles.
