The uniqueness of a political strategist is often in approaching issues from a different perspective. Are there no State pacts in Spain? It depends on what is considered as such. “We must banish the idea that only the PSOE and the PP can make State pacts. Now we are in a multiparty system,” said political consultant Iván Redondo yesterday, at a lunch-discussion at the Cercle del Liceu.
Before thirty members of the Barcelona entity, led by the president, Francisco Gaudier, Redondo addressed various current political issues, among which the Amnesty law could not be missing, again in the foreground with the agreement of PSOE, ERC and Junts that unravels its parliamentary processing. “It is the first State pact and there will be more. Now we are in a multiparty system,” he stressed.
Readers of the articles that he publishes on these pages on Mondays will already know that Iván Redondo has been and is a firm defender of the amnesty, and of those who first endorsed the opportunities for reconciliation that would have a criminal oblivion for those prosecuted by the process . “The process is part of a past stage. The pro-independence movement may not be very clear about his future, but those who promote the amnesty want to move forward,” he insisted yesterday. And he was expansive: “The amnesty is the news of the decade.” Counting time in decades is one of his peculiarities.
Another is that it risks. Thus, he pointed out that the legislature “can reach 2027.” Pedro Sánchez will have to continue counting the votes one by one to carry out new initiatives, but he could finish his term. “The amnesty is different from what we have experienced because for the first time people who have left politics are all back inside. For me, amnesty can be stability,” he said.
True to his style, and his skill as a communicator, the director of the Godó Group managed to weave in his speech the main issues of Catalan, Spanish and European politics, responding to the title of the meeting: “Europe, Spain, Catalonia: total reunion” . The chief political editor of this newspaper, Silvia Angulo, conducted the first part of the intervention as an interview, which was followed by a discussion with the attendees, including Marisa Falcó, Countess of Godó, and the actress Mónica Randall, a personal friend. of the lecturer.
Moving from one topic to another, Redondo slipped in several headlines, among them that Sánchez is managing the Koldo case well, although it is taking its toll on him. “The president is made of iron, but he has a heart and I feel his pain,” said the person who was his close collaborator in Moncloa between 2018 and 2021, as director of the Presidency cabinet. Regarding the PP, he ruled out that Isabel Díaz Ayuso is a rival for the leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo: “Politics are moments. "I don't see it as a threat at all."
“The flood of ideas is such, one after another, that it is difficult to summarize. We have talked a lot about amnesty, rest and that politics are moments,” Gaudier summarized at the closing. Redondo readers already know what I was talking about.
