THE Constitution Day Celebration It’s becoming more and more like that wedding you’re invited to and forced to go to, often without wanting to, with the added twist that it prevents you from enjoying the long weekend that people enjoy. … vast majority of Spaniards. Queues to enter, elbows to try to listen to what the main leaders are saying and increasingly rare catering (as also happens on the links).
A long time ago, today, There was “glamor”. Not everyone receives an invitation to visit the Congress Hall. But far from this exclusivity of a few decades ago, Constitution Day has today become a “photocall” in which politicians – many of them without ties or in casual attire – take advantage of the presence of journalists hungry for headlines to fill three days of newspapers to sell their motorcycle, even if it does not have wheels.
All authorities present They once again defended the spirit of the Constitution and the Transition, but immediately afterwards, almost without batting an eyelid, they used the same statement to attack their political rival.
Cases of sexual harassment affecting the PSOE by the former advisor Francisco Salazar and the former leader of Torremolinos, with a ‘mea culpa’ included Pedro Sanchezand the crisis at the Torrejón hospital were the most repeated topics. In the case of the health crisis, not that of swine fever, of which nothing has been said, with the minister Monique Garciaas a candidate for Más Madrid, and the minister Oscar Lopezas leader of the PSM, takes advantage of the cameras to attack Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
On this occasion More parliamentary spokespersons are missing than those present at the celebration organized by the Congress. In fact, the only one who was seen, accompanying its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was the popular Ester Muñoz, since neither the socialist Patxi López -due to illness-, nor that of Vox, Pepa Millán -who only appeared in the press without the absent Santiago Abascal-, nor that of Sumar, Verónica Martínez Barbero, as well as the regionalists Míriam Nogueras, Gabriel Rufián, Mertxe Aizpurúa, Néstor Rego, Maribel Vaquero and Cristina Valido were seen in the Lower House. Nor any minister like Óscar Puente.
The ‘podemita’ Ione Belarra delegated her presence to Javier Sánchez Serna and to the deputy of the Mixed Group José Luis Ábalos experienced his first December 6 since being detained for many years of Soto del Real (Madrid), where “glamor” is even rarer than at the Palacio de la Carrera de San Jerónimo. The PP deputies, with personalities like Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Mirian Guardiola, Jaime de Olano or Miguel Ángel Sastre, constitute the most represented parliamentary group. There was virtually no trace of the socialist deputies, Sumar and the rest of the minority forces.
In terms of regional presidents, as happened recently on October 12, There were also many absences this Saturday. Neither the Basque Imanol Pradales, nor the Riojan Gonzalo Capellán, nor the Canarian Fernando Clavijo, nor the Catalan Salvador Illa, nor the Extremadur María Guardiola, nor the Balearic Marga Prohens, nor the Castilian and Leonese Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, nor the Castilian-Manchego Emiliano García-Page, nor the Asturian Adrián Barbón, nor the Navarrese María Chivite, nor the Galician. Alfonso Rueda They traveled to Madrid.
Armengol during her speech at the event, accompanied by the rest of the authorities
Among the regional leaders present, the Madrid Isabel Diaz Ayuso —in the mouths of all members of the Government—, the newly elected Valencian president, Juanfran Pérez Llorcaand the Aragonese Jorge Azcón, in this case persecuted to know if he was going to advance the elections, were the great protagonists of the day. Juanma Morenowho a few weeks ago, at the Royal Palace, was the most sought after due to the screening crisis, today walked relaxed and competed in groups a few meters from the first vice-president and rival in the next Andalusian elections, Maria Jesus Montero.
The head of the Executive, who interacted little with journalists on October 12, due to the rigid protocol of the day, this Saturday Yes, he spent time on communicators in private. Well, in public, discussing what time it was, he wouldn’t answer a single question. His dedication to the press in the traditional huddles was such that, when his team tried to take him, almost to the starting gate, a group of communicators surrounded him again. And the Secretary of State for Communication, Lydia del Canto, and her deputy to the Cortes, Iván García Yustos, had no choice but to make another stop.
Carmelathe daughter of Yolanda Díaz, who accompanied her mother on her arm this Saturday for the first time during an institutional event, and the president of RTVE, Jose Pablo Lopezone of the most sought after by journalists and participants, two days after deciding that Spain would not participate in Eurovision for the first time due to the presence of Israel, were some of the other protagonists of a celebration of the Constitution increasingly removed from society, whose security perimeter imposed this year by the Ministry of the Interior prevented the real protagonists of the celebration from approaching less than 350 meters from the seat of the Legislative.