As fate (or reality) would have it, the former Prime Minister, Mariano RajoyHe promoted his latest book (‘The Art of Government’), Al-Mazara Publishing House) only when one of his political executioners entered the 2018 censure motion … prison: Jose Luis Avalos. That sentence seven years ago from Rajoy himself in response to the socialist leader: “To give lessons, if the conditions are not met, it is better to remain silent.”
This Thursday in the Royal Friendship Circle of Cordoba and in front of a crowded concert hall (and part of the annexed glass courtyard), Rajoy presented this article nourished by “reflections” and “convictions” after 40 years of public life. He added: “It is not a treatise on politics but it is about politics.” proverbs, As its editor and colleague in the Council of Ministers mentioned, Manuel Pimentel. The former Labor Minister said he was a kind of Rajoy in “pills of wisdom.”
But the former leader of the People’s Party did not want to enter into the Spanish political reality that exploded on Thursday with the entry of the former second-in-command of the Socialist Workers Party into the Soto del Real prison. Pedro Sanchez The former Minister of Transport (with his advisor Koldo Garcia), he preferred to play between the lines in his speech with a lot of sarcasm and Galicianism. Rajoy in his purest form.
The former prime minister was involved in the current problems taking place in Spain, such as attacks on justice. “without Independence of the judiciary He commented, saying, “Democracy is losing its quality and it is not known what may happen in the future,” stressing the “unnaturalness” of “a government not providing the state’s general budgets as stated in the constitution.” “When he is unable to do so, he must resign and call for elections,” he added.
It was a compliment to a character King Emeritus Don Juan Carlos In the transitional phase and Spain’s accession to the European Union and the Euro, and the role of the current king in stability Philip VI . Part of his speech, which was not overly long and very subservient to the text of the book itself, revolved around populism and extremism. “One of the biggest challenges facing liberal democracies has arrived in Spain,” Rajoy said.
“Populism can be like that,” the former leader of the Popular Party noted Millionaire from New York “The Spanish Communist is a Central European radical” identifies, without direct implication, the recipient of this invitation. “Extreme stupidity corresponds to these extremes.” Yes, he insisted on the idea “not to confuse democracy with voting, it is much more than that.”
Social networks and Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy, who cited an anecdote that his first political action in 1982 was in the province of Córdoba (Fernan Nunez and La Rambla), Ortega reformulated his defense of the value of managing politics on the basis of reality. “Every reality that is ignored ends up with revenge,” he pointed out, “and the ruler cannot be sectarian.”
He also took a few minutes, in this regard, to recall the first measures he had to take when he arrived in Moncloa in 2011 in the midst of the economic crisis: reducing public spending by 10,000 million euros, increasing taxes by 6,000 million euros and nationalizing part of the financial system. “It wasn’t popular however We avoid bankruptcy of Spain».
Finally, the former head of government (2011-2018) even chose the motion of censure presented by Pedro Sánchez «Organization of social networks “Digital as analogue was regulated in its day” and questioned its current meaning as “the opinion of a madman is worth more than the opinion of a Nobel Prize winner”.