“Asymptomatic politician”. This is how a professor of Constitutional Law and former Minister of Transparency at the University of Alicante (UA) now describes and admits to himself. Manual Alcaraz. And by the way, one of the arguments he used to explain the reasons that prompted him to write his latest work was: Cassandra’s job. patience summaries politicspresented this Monday afternoon Club InformationConsell’s vice president, More; UA rector Amparo Navarro; General manager of INFORMATION CONTENT, John R Gil; with the representative editorial Tirant lo Blanchwho published the book. A copy that emerged from the articles he wrote in the press for the last three years and where the pandemic is very intense. In many cases, as he himself admitted in the act, some articles were the starting point, with others reassembled, and others with only one paragraph remaining and reconstructed and interspersed with other new chapters. They all have one common denominator: doubt, as he argued, is the only way to keep us in a democracy. “If doubted, sectarianism will decrease, but when governing it cannot be doubted, because if doubted, many things cannot be done,” he said.
In this sense, Alcaraz emphasized: this work is “a great declaration of love for politics.” Regarding the title and allusions to the Cassandra myth, he directly stated that he did not feel like a fortune teller, but attempted a global reflection on the crisis of theory and thus of the imagination. In this direction, he emphasized that “beyond the truth is not a lie, but the trivialization of important issues” and, in Manuel Azaña’s words, the worrying thing is that a politician does not know how to speak. but you don’t know what you’re talking about
However, above all, he argued that prudence is the main virtue of politicians, as classical thinkers defended, and emphasized that this is only possible with patience and time to think. “Prudence can only be obtained with patience,” he said.
Previously, the rector of the University of Alicante had valued Alcaraz’s work. It did so by justifying its presence in that presentation on three very limited issues: author, content, and inclusive. Regarding Alcaraz, he not only lauded his work as a colleague in the Constitutional Law department, but highlighted two of his initiatives while he was director of AU headquarters: the Democracy Archive and the Citizens’ Initiatives Platform (PIC). As for the mainland, celebrated that the book originated from articles published in INFORMATION and the publisher is Tirant lo Blanch, closely linked to legal matters and run by a UA graduate, saving lives. As for content, he used, among other qualifiers, shrewd, honest and elegant to describe the prose of the former minister.
Juan R. Gil, for his part, stressed the “inflation” of political and analytical books, citing what was presented by the former Vice President about three weeks ago. Pablo Iglesias -We can- and PP MEP Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo in the same environment and recorded: Alcaraz’s work is different because it has a very clear distinguishing nuance: “It is a book against no one, but against intellectual laziness.”was convicted.
Finally, Aitana Mas, Consell’s vice president, highlighted Manuel Alcaraz’s ability to “put your feet in the square” through his publications or conversations with him. In this context, he lauded all that has been learned about the importance of word, agreement and negotiation, as well as the need to avoid noise as the pillars on which institutional loyalty and democratic quality should be based.