As much as the very Government of the nation and its media speakers have been trying for weeks to discredit the convocation held in Madrid's Plaza de Colón - even using insults towards their fellow citizens - the march against pardons for secessionist criminals that last Sánchez was a success.

Not only in terms of monitoring, in view of the aerial images of the final act: also

in relation to the civic and moral values ​​embodied there

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This is so because it was civil society that organized itself to show its rejection of a measure of grace so dishonest in politics, so humiliating in social terms and so far from the spirit of the Constitution that even the current Prime Minister rejected not so long ago. .

For this reason, it is only fair to highlight the role it has played in organizing the demonstration.

Union 78

, a small platform that from its humility has brought together, around respectable and respected figures such as Fernando Savater, thousands of people.

The event in Colón was attended by the main representatives of the Spanish center-right: PP, Vox and Cs.

But the leading role was not for the parties, but for society.

Thus, it was Union 78 who carried the weight of the speeches.

First, with a combative Rosa Díez, the motor of the concentration, who highlighted how citizens of all ideas came together in the Plaza de Colón to stop the drift of this Government.

«

Enough already!

", Asked Díez, recovering the spirit of harmony but firmness of that homonymous platform that resisted so much against ETA terrorism.

Later, with the lofty verb of the writer Andrés Trapiello.

With an enviable argumentative pulse, he pondered the public utility of the march: “We have also heard that this demonstration will be of no use because the pardons have already been agreed and decided.

It is not true.

Moral and political acts have consequences and this of ours is a moral and political act

».

Trapiello is right: if the first concentration in Colón two years ago served to freeze the effects of Pedralbes's surrender, and stop the negotiations with the independentists, this Sunday's reissue should be a turning point for the Government , which asks citizens to understand what cannot be understood, listen to them and

I cease in this attempt to assault the rule of law

which involves the granting of pardons to convicts who insist that they will repeat crimes of the utmost gravity.

It would be laughable - if it were not the biggest recent attack on our democracy - to observe how in recent days a convicted person like Junqueras has been tried to be whitewashed: the party he leads has signed a pact not to renounce "self-determination."

Paraphrasing Trapiello, there is no greater public utility than saying no to pardons in public.

This is what Spanish citizens have done.

The government must listen.

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