2023-09-26 14:36:42
Alberto Núñez Feijóo is 62 years old and life is getting long. He wants to be young again and he wants democracy to be young again. We must return to the eighties, to the mythical vision of the Transition in which everyone reached agreements and everyone loved each other to the point of rage. Spain, a country very different from that of that time in all aspects, must look to the future and that future lies in turning back the clock forty years.
In the most important speech of his life, the leader of the Popular Party showed his insecurity before it began. It is a situation in which a politician is left alone on the platform and in some way an entire country is examined. Feijóo did not want to appear alone. He scared her. For this reason, he mobilized all the leaders of his party to accompany him. At the entrance, he arrived walking with dozens of his deputies as bodyguards. The regional presidents were also summoned and some senators signed up. We are all losers here no matter how much the investiture fails, he seemed to tell them. Leadership that needs encouragement.
Feijóo is one of those who arrive late for his own wedding. He arrived at the chamber five minutes late. Without opening his mouth, he already earned a standing ovation from the deputies of his party, a rather servile gesture that the senators debuted with Rajoy. Of course they have to applaud him, but at least he does something to deserve the applause. Some PP leaders even applauded in the public gallery, which is prohibited. An usher caught their attention.
He began the speech as if it were the investiture session of the opposition leader. Or the presentation of a motion of censure against a government in office. He began by quoting a phrase without mentioning its source, which was the typical boast of an independentist who demands everything in exchange for nothing. It is not known if he invented it. It was a trick to emphasize that he would never accept something like that. As if he hadn’t said it a hundred times before, especially since Junts didn’t even bother to meet with him.
Within the first twenty minutes of the speech, it was clear what he did not want to do. It was a curious investiture speech. You had to wait a long time to find out what her program was.
He kept insisting that he had won the elections. Like an eight-year-old Donald Trump repeating that he is the best. “This inauguration session portrays us all,” he said. There he was completely right. With 171 votes secured, he does not have a majority to be elected president no matter how much he cries and clings to his mother’s leg to tell her that he is the best, that he has won and that he deserves his award in good shape. of chocolate cookie.
When he said what he would do as president, that was when the adjustment letter of the seventies and eighties began. He cited Fraga and Carrillo’s hug as a magical moment that moves him. “There are those who deny the Transition. I come to vindicate it and claim its validity.” The first is legitimate. The second is difficult to believe, because the country’s current problems cannot be solved with nostalgia or by remembering the years of the EGB or by thinking that Spain continues to be as it was then.
State Pacts for everything. It is not a solution that should be disdained, but it should be analyzed coldly and see what chances of success there are. It would be good with an education law so as not to have to change it when there is a change in the Government. It has already been seen that there are not many options if Feijóo says that he does not allow “indoctrinations” – a small detail with Ayuso and Vox – and one can imagine that he will not allow one of the oldest forms of indoctrination in the Western world to be limited or eliminated. the subject of religion whose function has always been to create good Catholics.
Feijóo offered the portion of hoaxes that usually appear in his speeches. In the usual mention of home occupations, he even involved an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s in the manipulation. Everything was worth it here. The socialists laughed heartily as they boasted about how much the Rajoy Government had raised the minimum wage.
The unreal scenario culminated near the end of the speech. “I do not come here as a leader of any block. The only one is yours.” Feijóo distorted the political reality of the country with rudeness and obvious disregard for the facts, as proven by all the regional governments and city councils formed with the support of Vox. He wants the eighties to come back, for Sánchez to paint some gray hair and for him to be like Felipe González.
Be careful, not like the Felipe who governed with an absolute majority and did not agree anything with the Popular Alliance, but like the current Felipe, willing to sing a lullaby to Feijóo before reaching a single pact with the nationalists. Feijóo longs for a time and characters that will never return.
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