Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, an especially cultured and sagacious politician, was wrong to believe that he had the right center vote captive and moved UCD to the left. The punishment was immediate and, in the general elections of 1982, his party went from 165 seats to 12. Mariano Rajoy made the grave mistake of responding with weak warmth to the aggression of Catalan secessionism. If the Galician politician had remained in power, the right center would have beaten him, leaving him in about twenty
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