The dialogue that follows is not a novel: “You have much more merit than anyone will ever recognize, because you have not beaten a government, you have beaten a regime,” says the first. “You are one of the most important Catalans along with Macià, Companys or Tarradellas,” continues the second. “And you have beaten a regime, but now it is time to dismantle it… And I am willing to participate in that,” insists the first. While they end between echoes of "plurinational State" when the second assumes that "Spain is a plural nation, in which there are regions, nationalities and 'countries' that have an extraordinary personality." The conversation is not between Pedro Sánchez and Carles Puigdemont but between José María Aznar and Jordi Pujol. Pedro J. Ramírez tells it in that delicious chronicle about the nineties that is his book Bitter Victory. Regions, nationalities and
Spain with “its regions, nationalities and countries” was in the Majestic pact as today in the amnesty through the absolute majority of Congress. This majority, that of the amnesty law proposal and the investiture vote, is sufficient support to begin the XV legislature. The social majority rules, and the representatives, behind. And the Majestic thing remains in the retina of the right like the 100 meters final in Los Angeles 1984. Nice to remember, but Alberto Núñez Feijóo is not Carl Lewis, as was seen on June 23. You should have seen, yes, that Aznar today with Puigdemont. For all these reasons, in the face of the pickets in Ferraz, in the face of the planned political strike, it is a mistake to respond with the particular Pomorska Brigade. The smart thing is to present the facts and the frustration of the right over a long “failed operation” with restraint.
Look, the PSOE has proven to be the “breakwater of all Spain”, as Antonio Machado once wrote about Madrid. The party that can talk to everyone. The balance in the State, the system and the country. The meeting point, the turning point: the abdication of the King (2014), Rajoy's 155 (2017), the motion of censure (2018), the first progressive coalition government 90 years after the Second Republic (2020) , pardons for imprisoned politicians (2021) or the current amnesty (2023). The right wanted the PSOE as an auxiliary force for a large direct or indirect coalition with the PP (the sorpasso era), but a free politician (Sánchez) recovered the autonomy of the party in the primaries and avoided it. It's like that. And it is logical for all this that the president achieves the trust of his militancy (87%) to form a government and that they have faith in the amnesty. “Sánchez as a pilot is not a problem but a solution,” was the thesis of 23-J, a trunk that does not want to be dusted off. And like it or not, Carles Puigdemont leads one of the many political waves in Spain, like Oriol Junqueras of ERC, EH Bildu in Euskadi...
With today's article we therefore close the series on amnesty, 12 pieces since the night of July 23, with a conclusion: amnesty is a necessary step, but not the final solution. If you want to resolve this challenge positively historically and know how to do it, you must have a historical perspective. This conflict does not start with the ruling of the Statute, it exists and has always persisted. And its essence has to do with “national recognition.”
Exactly two years ago at the Casa del Libro in Barcelona, which is a nine-minute walk from the Majestic, I stated that there would be no “total reunion” without Puigdemont. It was an exercise in coherence waiting for the concept to blossom on a day like today. My teacher José Antonio Llorente, the best, calls it “the eighth sense.” The sense of all the senses that after the physical senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, intuition and spirit, anticipates the uncontrollable need of people to communicate and be understood by others. But the patent for the concept was never mine nor did it have to do with the “eighth sense.” I've only known two people who own it: one is JALL. And the other is the inspirer of this phrase, whose name it would be imprudent to say before sealing the “total reunion” that is “total recognition.”
