When all this happens and they cited the amnesty law, the demolition of the spirit of the Constitution and the socialist appropriation of all the resources of the State, "what will remain of Spain is the Corte Inglés and Zara," ironically ex-minister José Manuel García -Margallo, the smile of Marianism, at the presentation in Barcelona of Spain, terra incognita. The siege of democracy, a book of which he is co-author with Fernando Eguizu, held last night at the Círculo Ecuestre.
The PP of Catalonia closed ranks with García-Margallo, in gratitude for the services provided, openly, during the process, which are summarized in a memorable television face-to-face with Oriol Junqueras, moderated by Josep Cuní. “Time has proven you right in everything you said and has proven Junqueras right in everything he said,” said Alejandro Fernández, leader and candidate for the Generalitat.
El Gallo Margallo, as he was affectionately called – or not – at school, remembered the debate well: it cost him a fight the day before with Mariano Rajoy and something more with the vice president. “The bombing I suffered was spectacular,” he recalled. Bad business? He would do it again, he came to say, honor intact and from the serenity of eighty years of life, the fifty before because he is still a European parliamentarian and a great head, with the permission of Churchill and Telmo Zarra.
The book, edited by Almuzara, directed by Pimentel, warns about the siege that Spanish democracy is suffering from within – a common strategy of all populisms of the 21st century – and about whose dangers the authors warn. Spain does not hurt them but it annoys them a lot: a Government handcuffed by its dependence on the votes of the radical left – tenacious in its task of destroying the transition, “exemplary” – and the Basque and Catalan independentists, whose nature is disloyalty.
“With the amnesty will come the emptying of our State,” predicted García-Margallo, wise in quotes – and not Google – and symbol of the spirit of harmony of the transition. He summed it up with two words and a very Spanish expression: “let's get ready.”
