The risk of being the crutch

One of the Dalinian symbols, which appears frequently in his work, is the crutch.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
02 June 2023 Friday 16:50
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The risk of being the crutch

One of the Dalinian symbols, which appears frequently in his work, is the crutch. In La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, the artist explains the fascination he felt when, as a child, he found one in the attic of his house in Figueres: "I appropriated the crutch immediately and understood that I I could never part again, such was the fanatical fetishism that took hold of me. The object provided me with security and an arrogance unknown until then. Since then it has represented in me a symbol of death, but also of resurrection".

Santiago Abascal is also obsessed with the idea of ​​the crutch, not because of some fall from the past, but because of the vertigo of the present. Vox's votes can give the government of a few autonomous communities and a lot of cities to the PP. But above all, their support can be decisive for the victory of the right in the imminent general elections.

In any case, the management of Vox does not want to give their support in exchange for anything, so they had to hear from Feijóo that their only goal is to get seats. The parliamentary spokesman, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, has responded indignantly that the popular people will not get their help for free.

The situation is particularly tense in Extremadura, where the PP candidate, María Guardiola, has won the same seats as the socialist who presides over the Board, Guillermo Fernández Vara, so Vox's votes are decisive. Guardiola was unknown when Pablo Casado put her at the head of the party in this community, last year, Feijóo ratified her, despite the fact that she was a woman with her own ideas, which did not always coincide with official doctrine.

Guardiola does not want the ultras in his government and has clarified that no one from Madrid will tell the people of Extremadura what to do in their land. In the hall of the Assembly of Extremadura they should hang the reproduction of the painting The Dream, by Dalí, where a large head is supported by twelve crutches. Even the watching dog leans on another. The artist wanted to capture the fragility of the supports of reality. These that make Guardiola so uncomfortable.