The leader of the third party has declared: “There will come a time when the people will want to hang the President of the Government by his feet.” He spent in Italy with Mussolini in 1945. How did we get here? Neither rule of law, nor abolition of the death penalty. Nothing.
The cause is the two blocks. Let Sánchez talk about create a wall in front of the average Spain that votes for the PP or Vox. Or that the ‘ABC’, a newspaper well informed about the right, headlines that the PP will make the legislature “unbreathable.” Little to do with the key to the Transition, so attacked by Iglesias, which was achieve a broad pact to build democracy.
Spain wanted to stop being a European anomaly and the only way was a pact between the political class of the regime and the opposition. And even the matches were pacts. The UCD united ‘blues’ (Suárez), liberals (Garrigues), Christian Democrats (Óscar Alzaga) and social democrats (Fernández Ordóñez). Felipe’s PSOE joined the PSC, the Federation of Socialist Parties and even Tierno Galván’s PSP. And in AP politicians who had clashed under Franco coexisted (Fraga, Silva and López Rodó). AND They agreed to legalize the PCE and bury the National Movement. Without pacts, there was no future.
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Now we have a democracy with results, but cracked because the two major parties only aspire to power and ignore the other. A party that has around 130 seats (be it the PSOE or the PP) wants what Alfonso Guerra ordered, that “whoever moves does not appear in the photo.” And Aznar, who did not vote for the ’78 Constitution, has believed for years that he is the one who knows how to read it. In his favor.
We have gone from the pact being the air necessary to breathe and coexist with adversaries to The only objective is, although with mortgages, to conquer the Moncloa. And without the desire for some pact between the major parties, it is very difficult for a democracy that requires a strong consensus (three-fifths parliamentary majority) to elect the judiciary. Thus, governing will be hell.