How many articles have I written under this title? I lost the count. My friend Luis Enrique Barberá, a notary who was from Calella and Barcelona, ??was right when he said about me: “No wonder Juanjo has clear ideas: he has few!” Well, one of these few ideas is that, especially in times of anxiety, only moderate governments are fertile, that is, those that adapt their ideas to reality and not reality to their ideas, those that abandon dogmas and do not They are sectarians, those who act prudently, those who master their tongues, those who respect their adversary, those who do not commit the only sin that exists, pride, next to which the others are mere administrative infractions.
This exordium comes from the fact that, after the recent elections, the two great national parties, the PSOE and the PP, should have sought preferentially agreements between them or abstention to avoid as far as possible the agreements of any one with the parties extremists, among whom I include radicals of all stripes, both on the right (Vox) and on the left (the entire protein mosaic and the separatists).
This position is consistent with the one I have maintained throughout this legislature: censure the coalition pact with Podemos and the legislature pacts with the separatists and other auxiliary troops, without ever denying the legitimacy of the government resulting from said pacts. For this reason, I have had plenty of continuous abbatial admonitions in defense of said legitimacy by numerous saints of the left and assimilated. I have always maintained that it was a legitimate government, but not suitable for the general interests of Spain. Now, having said this, we must be consistent, which is why I affirm from now on that, in my opinion, a coalition government between the PP and Vox will also be legitimate, but it will not be convenient for the general interest.
Review the major pending issues: territorial (which has not healed), debt and deficit, education, productivity… Add the ones I forget, and you will see that not only its solution, but its mere correct approach, requires a majority pact of PSOE and PP. Hence my insistence that it is time for the moderates, so that they agree to what they deem appropriate in attention to the general interests of Spain. This does not imply excluding the rest of the political forces, only preventing them from being decisive in reaching agreements that suit their particular interests, but that are detrimental to the general interest.
At this point, a question arises: What are the reasons why something apparently as simple as specific agreements between the two major parties on serious issues is unfeasible in Spain? I list three causes:
1) The cacique nature of the political parties, which are the “organic caciques” of this Second Restoration. It is obvious that many of its decisions are made in the exclusive interest of the “organization”, that is, its members. To do so, they have the complicity of many media (more serious in the public). Think, as an example, of the different treatment of what happened a week ago in Barcelona and Girona, which is the same.
2) The self-granted moral superiority of a certain left, which forgets that moderation is based on the absence of professed dogmas as absolute truths. This implies a secularism that goes beyond the religious fact, because not only intolerant clericalism is contrary to secularism, but also the dominant secularized and radicaloid culture (Claudio Magris).
3) The cerrilismo of a certain right that appropriates in its interest the name and symbols of Spain, which it considers as a farm on which it has been established for many centuries.
We are not the old who have to correct this drift. It is clear that sometimes we even lose, with equanimity, good manners. That is why I appeal to young people, on the right and on the left, to get us out of this quagmire. Spain is a good country: it deserves to be governed wisely.
