On the occasion of the Galdós Year, the Congress of Deputies recalled the first and only intervention of
Don Benito
, who was a deputy for Gran Canaria, Madrid and the overseas territory of Guayana (Puerto Rico).
On June 1, 1909, while
Eduardo Dato was
president of the Congress
, the brief speech began: "Two words, gentlemen, and they still seem like a lot to me: a word and a half."
Galdós was previously a parliamentary chronicler and was less concise in his texts.
He wrote on the occasion of the death of
Pri
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