"You camouflage yourself as Robin Hood, and in reality you are the sheriff of Nottingham," the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, expressed furiously to the Prime Minister. A supposedly inconsequential moment, but one that perfectly synthesizes the soul and the result of this sixth motion of censure. It is certain that Abascal is unaware –not so comic book lovers– the great and very recent Nottingham, the work of Benoit Dellac and Vicent Brugeas. In it, the sheriff is no longer the bad guy like in Errol Flynn's movies. On the contrary, in 2023 he is a respected, supportive man who wants the best for his people. For this, in addition to paying taxes and doing justice as the sheriff, that is, Pedro Sánchez, he simultaneously fights evil by hiding behind a mask, being Robin Hood, that is, Yolanda Díaz. Times change and politics have to change with the times. And that is what we saw: how the change of era and the era and its changes in Don Ramón and Vox screeched.
Ramón Tamames starred in a journey through time, exiled within himself during the entire session. The reflections that he kept to himself, surely, contained more political capital than he really expressed. He did not technically adopt the role of president of the Council of State. There was neither an opinion nor even a specific program beyond one, the vaunted request for electoral advancement; and two, the surprising demand to the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, for a reform of the regulations of the Chamber to limit the intervention times. Incomprehensible when president and candidate are on an equal footing with unlimited time in the motion. In politics, no one votes for the person who complains about the referee, Don Ramón. And he ended up lacking self-control by interrupting, also unprecedented, the reply to Sánchez.
Time was so important that when it reached him, Tamames was aware of his defeat. He was appreciated in the tiny replicas, grim, without brilliance. None at the height of his accredited high teaching. His most fearsome weapon, the image of the academy giving professional politics a beating at a very anti-political moment, was conspicuous by its absence. Tamames had transformed into Helium, yes. But the sharp voice of their lordships and the giggles of these days gave way to a deep and intelligent institutional look. And Sánchez entered the motion as it came out: without a scratch. He was right in tone and content, he was respectful and perhaps he lacked a winning movement of camaraderie, taking into account the mobility difficulties of the candidate: intervene from the seat as Tamames would have been ten.
Now, whoever won the most was Yolanda Díaz. Her triumph in the motion of censure was absolute. The motion will not move votes, but will transfer confidence to the vice president. She abandoned the Egyptian registry for the Roman one, in an effective debut of Spain in a white shirt as Ana Belén, taking advantage of the motion to launch the trailer for Sumar, her presidential candidacy on April 2. A year and a half has passed since we explained the mobilizing force of an idea: Yolanda as the first woman president to wrest the third position from Vox, as a condition to reissue the coalition. Today the potential of this operation, then highly criticized, is accredited and in the eyes of all of you. There is not a socialist or a member of the Government who does not defend this thesis today. Time, always protagonist.
Diaz liked it a lot. His speech was rich in nuances and references. He vindicated the PCE, democracy, the mothers of the Constitution, the social State, pensions, employment, the minimum wage, feminism, social policies, even the management of the public debt. He also had very good words for many of his colleagues, such as the president and ten ministers, including Nadia Calviño, Ione Belarra or Irene Montero, also thanking all the political forces for his support. Nice clinch. Visualizing with it his wide electoral corridor, not a corner. And winning the absolute balance of the motion, reinforcing the coalition. Daring to welcome Tamames to 2023 and reminding him, beware, that they are the same unit: that the sheriff (Sánchez) is Robin (Yolanda) and that Nottingham in the 21st century vibrates under the same hood. Hood's. That of the coalition government.
