Members of the Government were working yesterday to contain internal criticism of the negotiation of an amnesty on the causes of the process in exchange for the votes of Junts and ERC in a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. If on Tuesday it was the former president of the government Felipe González who charged against this eventuality, this Thursday it was the turn of his former vice president Alfonso Guerra with his usual vehemence.
In an interview with Herrera in La Cope, full of attacks on Pedro Sánchez and his Government and nostalgia for the socialist past, Guerra considered that the amnesty "is the condemnation of the transition that they have been seeking (it is understood that the nationalists) of years ago" to which he has assured that he will not tolerate it. To explain his feelings, González's former number two has quoted the San Sebastian historian Juan Pablo Fusi when he said "what is happening now, I experience it as the defeat of my generation" to which he added: "I am not going to tolerate it." "I rebel."
For Guerra, if the amity is finally approved and Spanish society does not react, it will mean that Spanish society is in decline, and when asked about the similarities between the measure that is now on the table and the one that was approved in 1977, he concluded that they are not there is. In fact, he has warned that this amnesty "is the opposite" of that one, since then there was a transition from a dictatorship to a democratic regime and the objective of any amnesty is "to erase the past." If it is approved now - he has warned - it will mean that "democracy is repressive and the coup plotters are the democrats."
After calling those responsible for the referendum on October 1 "coup plotters convicted by the Supreme Court", the former socialist leader has branded the debate promoted by the nationalists as "cheating" because, in his opinion, before discussing whether the amnesty is constitutional , "which of course is not", it is necessary to know if the act "is just or not, if it is pure or impure."
Guerra has also warned that after the amnesty there will come self-determination and the referendum in what he has denounced as the "salchichón or chorizo technique" that in his opinion the independentists use, that is, that "they cut piece by piece until they eat it alone." everything" to, in his opinion, "end up deconstructing the society of '78. At this point, the former vice president has asked Sánchez not to give in to these claims because, in his opinion, it means "denying the effort that was made in the transition" so that later it is said that the current one is "an impure regime." . And he has left "a warning" to the head of the Executive: "Self-determination was already discussed in the 29th socialist congress and was defeated", so a new PSOE congress should be called if this issue is to be reopened.
The former socialist leader has also criticized the trip of the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, to Brussels to meet with the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, whom he has taken the opportunity to brand as an "atrabilious character who carries the baton with 1.6% of the votes" and that he "cowardly got into a car trunk" and lives in "a tremendous palace in Waterloo" that "we all probably paid for." "That a vice president of the Government goes to see that guy seems like an intolerable disgrace to me," Guerra snapped, ironically saying that "these are the new politics that are going to regenerate Spain."
Guerra, who will soon present his new book La rosa y las espinas at the Ateneo de Madrid with Felipe González, has rejected the criticism raised within socialism by the positions he maintains with his former boss, such as those expressed yesterday by former president José Montilla , who disgraced González for "putting the current presidents in trouble." "What we are doing in the PSOE is absolutely consistent with the best socialist tradition," the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, replied yesterday to González. "Silencing a more humble militant is neither democratic nor socialist," Guerra rebuked, who attributed this to the fact that some politicians surround themselves with "these young people who don't have much of an idea of what democratic values are."
Guerra has not lacked time to doubt the ideology of the President of the Government and, asked if he considers Sánchez to be a social democrat, he answered that "you have to ask him." "He is doing things that fit and things that don't, as in institutional aspects," he stated.
Guerra has also not spared criticism of the PP for its alliances with Vox and has ordered the conservative party to "put its house in order" in order to be able to demand state pacts with the socialists, whom he has also included in his admonition. "If you want to make agreements between the two main parties, both have to get rid of what they have around them, excrescences that are not representative of Spanish democracy," he stated after considering it "incomprehensible" that two parties "that have the "73% of the House are not able to agree on anything." And within the possible agreements, the former socialist leader has given as an example "reducing the role of the nationalist parties" that with "6% of voters decide things about 100% of Spaniards." "These two parties have to save some things," he concluded.
