It would be difficult to find in recent European history a history of political infamy similar to that perpetrated this Monday by Pedro Sánchez at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona.

That a government is willing to favor the interests of a group of coup plotters convicted of sedition, who have shamelessly declared their intention to repeat the affront once they leave prison, not only undermines

the dignity of citizens

who aspire to security and stability

policies, but clears the way for those who have mortgaged all their political activity to the destruction of the nation-state and the breakdown of the current constitutional order and framework of coexistence.

And misappropriating the word "concord" - a currency of the political class during the Transition - only adds an added humiliation to the Spaniards who attend these games of rhetorical manipulation, astonished and powerless, by means of which Sánchez wants to hide his alliance with those who take advantage of their "weakness" to provoke a regime change.

Furthermore, in doing so, he is boycotted, insulted and booed by the secessionists themselves is another discouraging evidence of how far Sánchez and his ministers are willing to go to stay two more years in power.

Because

the screams against the Prime Minister

upon their arrival at the event and during their intervention - which could well be interpreted as a violent threat for what they consider to be a "betrayal" - are but the replica of what the

president

of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, reminded him before the imminent celebration of the bilateral and extra-parliamentary dialogue table that ERC agreed with the Government in exchange for its support in the Cortes: that they will not admit anything other than amnesty, that is, the impunity;

and an independence referendum, that is, the dissolution of national sovereignty.

Which shows that not even the independentistas themselves aspire to harmony, much less value "life", as Sánchez argued in an outburst of kitsch that turns Zapatero's appeals to the "wind" into deep poetry.

But

the offensive in favor of pardons

It has also featured the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, who has not hesitated to lie without shame when stating that there is "a general clamor" among Catalan and Spanish businessmen in favor of measures of grace to the seditious, putting as an example the president of the employer, Antonio Garamendi. As we have published in these pages, several CEOE leaders, and especially the president of Cepyme and vice president of Spanish businessmen, Gerardo Cuerva, have denounced being "fed up" with the government's "short-termism", have shown their concern that the crimes have no consequences and have warned that "today's exception will be tomorrow's catastrophe." It is true that Garamendi's ambiguity - who this Monday again apologized for his words - compromised the CEOE,But the truth is that the pardons are defended only by some members of the Catalan bourgeoisie, represented by the Círculo de Economía, the same ones who have embraced the former minister Andreu Mas-Colell, accused by the Court of Accounts of having diverted funds for the sovereign cause abroad while it belonged to the Government of Artur Mas.

Finally, it is pathetic that Sánchez's partners appeal to the arguments of Boris Cilevics, a member of parliament for a pro-Russian Latvian socialist party who has prepared a report for the Council of Europe - an institution that has nothing to do with the European Union. defending the independence cause.

But in europe

secessionism is only supported by those who would like to see the community project implode,

for representing liberal and democratic values, the rule of law and human rights.

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