A certain character

Only after listening to Pedro Sánchez in Marivent, the assessments of the King in the traditional summer inn of the Royal Family make sense. A monarchy is above all tradition. Also prudence. And in the case of our constitutional system, strict submission to a series of appraised and limited-scope functions, although of imprecise political definition: "arbitrate", "moderate" ... Among them there is no preference to show preferences. And affirm, as Felipe VI did, that "it is best to find a solution before going to elections" is still an answer to those who believe that new elections would help form a more stable and secure government than what would now be possible. . But nothing in politics is casual. Not free As a "symbol" of the "unity and permanence" of the State that it is, the King could have slipped the institution towards partisanship by anticipating the strategy that Sanchez later deployed in the same palatial garden.

Interpreters have the monarchy . None, however, has managed to say convincingly why the King chose that scenario, lacking institutional solemnity; why that date, just three days after the meeting with Sánchez; and the reason for an unprecedented political positioning, when on July 26, in an impeccable statement , he had expressed his determination to inhibit himself until the parties agreed, either to present a pact that gave way to a new government; Good to give it up and go back to the polls. A sensible and prudent decision, after having twice made the mistake of proposing the same candidate for an investiture, at least precipitous, for which he did not have the necessary parliamentary support.

In the sense that Baltasar Gracian prints, the art of prudence would be the ability of the "person" to metamorphose his nature, alternating the "warmth of the snake" with "the warmth of the dove", and converting that "prodigy" in a sort of "political moral" , as Saverio Ansaldi has pointed out in a chapter of the Machiavelli and Spain collective work ( New Library ). But this art would not be a virtue for the ruler. Yes, the one that defines the Florentine diplomat and theorist as audacity to adapt to each circumstance in order to achieve the continuity of the State. This requires a certain character capable of transforming the inconcrete of a constitutional precept into a legal weapon that prevents the dissolving forces from taking over the State. A King cannot make the same mistake three times . And pretend nothing happens.

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