Pablo Iglesias' warning to the PP bench - "They will not be part of the Council of Ministers of this country again" - in the last control session cannot be passed as one more of the radical eccentricities of
this picturesque activist
whom Sánchez's lack of scruples allowed him to become vice president of a Spain in whose institutions he does not believe.
You have to go back to very dark sessions in that Chamber to find resonances as gloomy as those given off by the
Iglesias threat.
The essence of democracy is alternation
, the ability of citizens to remove those who occupy it from power through suffrage.
In the mouth of another parliamentarian, that prophecy would not arouse more than the smiles with which the drifts of arrogance are dispatched;
In the mouth of a proud ideological and financial figurehead of Chávez
, whose regime still torments those who were once free citizens of Venezuela, the threat loses much grace. It is the obligation of the PP to work so that the totalitarian delusions of Iglesias do not materialize, building
a solid alternative to offer to chaos
incompetence and radicalism embodied in the coalition government.
And it would be the obligation of Iglesias to observe the democratic decorum that is assumed in his office,
if we still expect something
more
from him
than bravado daughters of sectarian hatred.
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