As the date of May 28 approaches, the political content of the talks also increases. Before reaching out to a more generous friend, I will tell you what I experienced a few days ago with someone I have known for many years and whom I should use the term acquaintance. We see each other from time to time, but it’s been a few months that we haven’t seen each other, so we decided to sit down and have a coffee and chat. After a routine review of families and people they both know, we get to work.
Let’s see if you can finish Sánchez for sure. So, very loudly, openly, he invites me to talk to him about the head of government, knowing that I am quite notorious in the circles in which I act in my case, and that I am a staunch defender of him and his policies. I understand you mean it as a provocation, because if it were up to me we would have held him accountable to the government for years. Yes, yes, to provoke, but more, because we don’t like anything and we want someone like Felipe González to be president, which was good. If someone had taken a picture of me at that moment, they would have taken a picture of a dazed face. It took me a few seconds to react. Philip Gonzalez? Do you love Felipe González? Because that’s not what I understand, and if my memory isn’t playing tricks on me, I don’t remember those words that came out of the mouths of you and other colleagues who thought and thought like you a few years ago. Felipe yes I know it’s a common tactic to praise someone in front of the bad Sánchez.
I would like to remind him that during his years in power, especially during the 1993 and 1996 election campaigns, the harassment against him was violent, even brutal. The slogan of “Get out, Mr. González” was accompanied by insults and almost lynching calls. I want to remind you, and I hope you have not forgotten, that someone like Luis María Anson, who ran ABC first and then La Razón years later, revealed the conspiracy set up by many journalists, including himself. right-wing politicians will put an end to FG’s political career. And he went so far as to confirm that they even touched on instability in some State institutions in this effort. Well, don’t be like that, that happened and I still prefer Sevilla to what we have now.
Without abandoning the political issue and to change the focus a bit, I asked him his opinion on José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. If I had glorified a few moments ago, now it was his turn. He started making vulgar adjectives about this former president, as if he had named him the devil. Without going too far, but that almost makes him worse than Pedro Sánchez. Since I don’t remember talking to him about ZP, I wanted to know the reasons for his hostility, as I believed it was more than enough to consider him as the person who presided over the government at the time the terrorist organization ETA announced its end. its positive in a different way. His answer surprised me: He ordered us to abandon our friends in the Iraq war. What was for me a decision that should have been taught in Political Science faculties as an example of consistency work and respect for promises was betrayal for him. The Iraq war had a great impact in Spain. President Aznar, who took his picture in the Azores, plunged our country into an armed conflict without legal support from the UN. Candidate Zapatero promised in the March 14, 2004 election campaign that he would withdraw our troops if he becomes president. No sooner said than done.
Since all of the above is a thing of the past, I asked him in false naivety about his objections to the current president. The answer did not sound original to me, we must put an end to sanchismo, repeal ETA members and independents and all legislation that has been implemented in recent years. Didn’t we agree that ETA is no more? No, they seem to be sitting in the room. I continue to pretend to be naive. Didn’t we say that if they lay down their weapons when they want to kill us, they can verbally defend any political option? Yes, it is true, he replies to me: but we must not agree with them. Ok, I’ve decided not to go there. And Catalonia? Don’t you perceive this better than a few years ago? Now I see that the king often attends public events there normally, and ministers visit Barcelona and other cities calmly and without fire or rebellion as before. Isn’t that so? Yes, I see that but the price Sánchez paid is unacceptable, he gave them everything, he is a traitor to Spain.
The cons were very obvious. I tried to dig a little deeper into the proposals, trying to go in a different color that the other presidents wanted him to do, but he was in a bit of a rush and we dropped out.