I met a courageous Falangist 50 years ago with a trimmed mustache and a direct, ardent and combative spirit. He worshiped Franco and African hatred for Don Juan, the King of law exiled in Estoril. He had a political career ahead of splendor. One day I went into the newspaper - the true ABC - and Antonio Mingote, the genius, said: «Don't worry. It will not come to anything. He has been declared a chronic lumbago ».

In this spasmodic political society in which we have lived, the one who does not bow reverently does not appear in the photo. The most common gesture of the politician is genuflection. And since Pablo Iglesias has not learned to kneel, it is very difficult to penetrate the monclovite rooms and occupy the chair seat of the presidential office.

Sanchez, however, knows all the secrets of the monipodio courtyard in which it has become a substantial part of Spanish politics. The acting president may have read this phrase from Churchill: "Among gentlemen, promises are debts, among politicians, they are baits." Now he is not even willing to fulfill what he promised Iglesias three months ago. José Félix Tezanos explained that, in the November 10 elections, he will exceed 40% of the votes. And it is exultant. And challenging. As a monclovite bird is better in hand than a hundred flying at the polls, the president will resign the elections if Pablo Iglesias surrenders for free.

Sanchez wants to have his hands free to increase spending, obligatorily contained now. That is the great toy of some politicians. Of almost everyone. According to the data sent to me by an illustrious economist, the General State Budget rose in 1977, in current euros, to 5,826 million; In 2017, it moved over 318,444 million. In 40 years the State spends in the environment of 60 times more, apart from the purchasing power. And we have gone from 700,000 public employees to 3,200,000. The parties have become placement agencies to connect relatives, friends and paniaguados. And politicians have given themselves to waste, sumptuousness, unnecessary travel, high-end cars, incessant banquets and dazzling buildings and offices, which all Spaniards pay, to whom their representatives bleed to bleeding, multiplying some almost confiscatory taxes.

Luis María Anson, of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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