The late Carlos Ruiz Zafón took from his ingenuity the cemetery of forgotten books, which he located in an old mansion in Barcelona's Raval, where there was a labyrinth of out-of-print works, which was the nexus of the tetralogy The Shadow of the Wind. In the same way, in the Congress of Deputies there should be a cemetery of failed ideas, which would serve to witness the occurrences of political parties in their moments of lack of inspiration or manifest haste. The last of these unfortunate initiatives has been the proposal to implement a new crime of “constitutional disloyalty”, which would be punished by the dissolution of parties that promoted an illegal referendum or an illegal declaration of independence.
The public justification of the PP is that the debate on constitutional disloyalty could act as a smokescreen for the parliamentary discussion on the amnesty. But, in addition, the dissolution of parties due to their ideas collides head-on with the spirit of the Constitution. All parties criticized the legislative proposal and, in view of the discussion it aroused, Alberto Núñez Feijóo showed his willingness to give the initiative another spin. It was not a single turn, but several that were made, until it made the jurists who had to soften it dizzy, so it ended up in a drawer, which is where the documents that get in the way end up. For now and until further notice, the Popular Party has decided to postpone its registration in Congress, which is an act of prudence.
The drawers are a Dalinian symbol, who thought of them as a metaphor for the unconscious. For the artist, human beings are like dressers with many drawers in which we keep things that we prefer that others do not know about. One of Dalí's most famous sculptures is the Venus de Milo with drawers, but he also drew Freud with a drawer ajar on his forehead or imagined a city of drawers. Perhaps one day someone will discover this text in the graveyard of failed ideas and it may not matter for a novel, in which the mystery would be how the right went in a short time from agreeing with the Catalan nationalists to seeking their dissolution.
