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The organizers of the La Toja Forum, which in its first edition last year was crowned as a privileged place for debate on the crisis of representative democracies and the liberal order, have taken courage to organize a face-to-face meeting in the middle of the second and unexpected wave of the coronavirus in Spain.

Defying the confinements, the organizers - the former Minister

, the former Secretary of State for Communication,

, and the Galician businessman

- have maintained the call against the wind, the tide and the uncertainty of the next end of week.

It is true that the island of La Toja proudly wears the label: "covid free".

The pandemic has joined the rest of the crises that affect Spain and the world, so the second edition of the La Toja Forum is held under the slogan of "Reconstruction".

Even when we do not even know how far the destruction will go, since the virus is far from disappearing from our lives.

The Secretary General of the OECD,

, predicted in the first day of debate that two years will be lost in economic terms.

"We are naked against the virus," he acknowledged.

The true godfathers of the La Toja Forum are two former presidents of the Government, Felipe González and Mariano Rajoy, who in the first edition starred in a very successful duet in defense of the disappeared bipartisanship that they managed.

The presence of the Portuguese president

The King inaugurated the second edition of this Discussion Forum as he already opened the first.

Felipe VI, like all Spaniards, surely longs for that first of October of last year, when only Catalan concern was on his mind.

In 12 months, the horizon has darkened for the head of state and not only because he must wear a mask and cannot shake hands.

It is precisely the offensive against the monarchy in which several ministers of the Government of Spain participate that turned a formal act into a symbolic scene of support for Felipe VI.

The welcoming committee in charge of receiving the King in La Toja was made up of the two former presidents of the PSOE and the PP;

the President of Portugal,

;

and the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as well as Minister Reyes Maroto.

The presence of the Portuguese president, the most empathetic head of state in Europe, was used by the Galician leader to make a wink of admiration to the Spanish monarchy and the Portuguese Republic.

"Everyone knows the affection and admiration I feel for you and for the constitutional monarchy," he pointed out, looking at the King of Spain. "Rebelo de Sousa is one of the politicians most loved by his people, something I know is not easy to achieve ", he said looking at the President of the Republic of Portugal.

Felipe VI: "There are no magic recipes"

In his speech, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa praised the figure of Felipe VI and placed "flesh and blood people" as the ultimate goal of political management.

"In difficult times, confused and full of uncertainty, we need lights that illuminate society," said the inspirer of the Forum, Amancio López Seijas.

In his inaugural speech, the King tried to illuminate a little the black health, political, social and institutional panorama that Spain is experiencing.

Felipe VI came to remind the troubled Spaniards that we are not as bad as it seems.

The head of state of the post-

country

.

The King (in the center), this Thursday, at the La Toja Forum, in O Govre (Pontevedra) .EFE

"There are no magic recipes to overcome this crisis. To do so, Spain has assets that place it among the most advanced countries in the world. We are one of the twenty full democracies in the world and the thirteenth economy on the planet," said the King.

Among the strengths of the country he cited three: "Our democracy, our modernity and our citizenship."

The impulse for reconstruction, added the monarch, "should be inclusive in any case because a society with values ​​and social cohesion cannot be developed if there is a lack of equity."

In his speech, Felipe VI praised the Atlantic bond as "inseparable from our values."

"I am referring to values ​​that are universal in scope but that were embodied for the first time in Europe and America in the Constitutions, authentic pacts between citizens."

Feijóo calls for union politics

The political message of the inauguration was given by the president of the Xunta de Galicia.

Linking with a lament from the organizer of the Forum - "if we are not able to reach a historical pact in the middle of the perfect storm, when will we do it?" -, the first

of the PP stated that "avoid apples of discord that fragment Citizenship is a primary duty when there is an enemy that makes no distinction in its stalking. "

The Galician leader - who aligned himself in the Interterritorial Health Council with the Madrid president and against Minister Salvador Illa - called for the union's policy and the agreement to face reconstruction.

"It is not a question of suspending the debate and the controversy in search of an impossible unanimity, but of protecting the space for the agreement of all and with all".

And he cited the Transition as an example of agreement, recalling that "a good part of it discussed in the midst of a very deep economic crisis."

Like the one we already have here.

Neither the president of the La Toja Forum, Josep Piqué, nor the Secretary General of the OECD, Ángel Gurría, spared details about the seriousness of the serious economic consequences that the pandemic will bring.

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