When all this happens, and they cited the Amnesty law, the demolition of the spirit of the Constitution and the socialist appropriation of all the State’s resources, “what will remain of Spain is Corte Inglés and Zara ”, said ex-minister José Manuel García-Margallo, the smile of Marianism, with irony, at the presentation in Barcelona of Spain, terra incognita. The siege of democracy, a book he co-authored with Fernando Eguizu, held last night at the Círculo Ecuestre.
The PP of Catalonia made a pineapple with García-Margallo, in gratitude for the services, left uncovered, during the process, which are summarized in a memorable televised face-to-face with Oriol Junqueras, moderated by Josep Cuní. “Time has proved you right in everything you said and Junqueras has been proven right in everything he said”, said Alejandro Fernández, leader and candidate for the Generalitat.
El gallo Margallo, as he was affectionately called – or not – at school, remembered the debate well: that night he had a row with Mariano Rajoy and something else with the vice-president. “The bombardment I suffered was spectacular”, he recalled. Bad deal? I would do it again, I mean, honor intact and from the serenity of eighty years of life, the fifty before, because he continues to be a member of the European Parliament and a great boss, with the permission of Churchill and Telmo Zarra.
The book, edited by Almuzara, directed by Pimentel, warns about the siege that Spanish democracy is suffering from within – a common strategy of all 21st century populisms – and about the dangers that the authors warn about. They are not sorry for Spain, but they are very annoyed: a Government whose hands are tied due to the dependence on the votes of the radical left – a tenacious termite in the task of burdening the transition, “exemplary” – and the Basque and Catalan independenceists, the whose nature is disloyalty.
“With the amnesty will come the emptying of our State”, predicted García-Margallo, wise in citations – and not from Google – and a symbol of the spirit of concord of the transition. He summed it up with two words and a very Spanish expression: “Vamos listos”.
