The original order is something to be envied; No country should be contaminated by the contact of politicians questioned by the courts or their blatant abuses. Cohesion is more erratic, with the PP currently hurling the weapon against La Moncloa’s socialist candidate. However, the purity demanded from PedroSánchez does not appear in the annals of the conservative party or the rulers to whom the popular segment has shown unconditional loyalty.
This week forces us to think about Netanyahu’s adventures. He rules Israel with three open corruption cases and they pervert the judiciary to their own advantage. This detail did not change the PP’s enthusiasm for Tel Aviv or its patriotic hostility towards anyone who questioned the attacked state. Closer to home, the public did not notice any contradiction in Nicolas Sarkozy attending an event supporting Núñez Feijóo even though he had been convicted for his political activities. This does not prevent the former president of France from being hosted at the Elysée by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. Carles Puigdemont’s demonizers are not bothered by this perhaps inconsistent behavior, the grass always grows longer in the eyes of others.
Being angry at the decisions of others is part of political conflict, but the government does not forgive its friends. Generous forgiveness often comes from those who will later deny it with fuss. There are entertaining images of President Felipe González in the newspaper archives, and therefore another privileged guest of Sarkozy, Gaddafi, is granted amnesty. Enthusiasts of the Seville politician will apologize for posing next to the Libyan dictator, but it is difficult to accept that his crimes were committed only after the meeting in Mallorca.
Aznar represents the image of inflexible politician for his fansThe one who didn’t even give Puigdemont the nail of his little finger. But the revival of the figure of Yasser Arafat forces us to remember the press conference in which the then Head of Government emerged as an unlikely defender of the PLO’s demands and unleashed the anger of the Israeli guests at the event. The scene passed without much scandal; Fundamentalists reserved their anger for Adolfo Suárez’s reception of the Palestinian leader in Moncloa because the latter had a gun on his waist.
In no case are the aforementioned dictators and terrorists intended to be more dangerous than Puigdemont; thus Sánchez’s additional crime would be to pardon humanity’s greatest criminal. In any case, the vagaries of history and its unlikely allies will demand that politicians be given little room for maneuver in their dealings. When Sarkozy began to condemn Feijóo again, coinciding with his action in support of the Spanish candidate, no one accused Feijóo of vileness. No one portrayed the PP as complicit in French brutality. Good luck and keep browsing.
Even Mandela could not pass the cotton test that Feijóo demanded of others, but not for him or the party with its “Luis, be strong” president.
There is room for criticism here that an exotic transfer to a foreign satrap cannot be compared to an amnesty for a local fugitive, especially in a Cainite country where the brother must be watched more than the enemy. This argument brings back González, undoubtedly the most important head of government Spain has ever had and now Sánchez’s chief rival. He is also the socialist politician who accompanies him. José Barrionuevo at the gates of Guadalajara prison, and not one more step. Like it or not, he was a kidnapper convicted by a Supreme Court full of progressive judges, and the process had nothing to do with the Ulramontano cast. It would be very difficult to verify that the trip to the prison was part of a constitutional arrangement to preserve the spirit of ’78.
You should continue with Amnesty from González’s PSOE to the coup plotters of 23F Perhaps more dangerous to the state than European Parliament member Puigdemont; his sole purpose is to win the favor of more rebel military members in the eighties than the independents in this century. Even more shocking is that Feijóo strongly condemned Yolanda Díaz’s photos in Waterloo, but thought her interview with drug trafficker Marcial Dorado was forgivable.
Even the terrorist Mandela cannot pass the cotton test that the PP only demands from others. The oldest popular leader of recent times will go down in history with the message he personally sent from Moncloa: “Luis, be strong, we will do our best.” Of course, Bárcenas is a venial sin compared to the independence movement, but if the left had written a similar text, the people would have demanded his execution.