Several former leaders of various parties, including prominent socialist figures, have released a manifesto this Thursday demanding the "immediate cessation" of the second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, for "not believing in the democratic dignity" of Spain and "undermine the image of our country" abroad.
Published by the constitutional platform "The Spain that meets", the manifesto has a total of 196 signatories, among which are the former socialist ministers
Joaquín Leguina
and
Nicolás Redondo Terreros
, promoters of the association.
Also the former ministers
José Luis Corcuera
and
César Antonio Molina
, as well as the former socialist deputy
Eligio Hernández
.
Other prominent representatives of constitutionalist politics have also joined the petition, such as the councilor in Barcelona for Ciudadanos and former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León Francisco Igea, from Ciudadanos;
the one who was the parliamentary spokesperson for the Popular Party, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, or the former
popular
minister
José Manuel-García Margallo.
Below, we reproduce the full content of the manifesto:
"Throughout its history, Spanish democracy has had good, bad and mediocre rulers, suitable and vulgar, exemplary and corrupt. Rulers with a sense of state and rulers who put their interests before the common good. What it had never had before Now he is a ruler who did not believe in the democratic dignity of his country, and thus threw it out to the world to the affront of citizenship and to discredit the name of Spain, a ruler who sided with crime.
We refer to the current Vice President of Government and Minister of Social Affairs of the Government of Spain, Pablo Iglesias Turrión.
It was already painful the outrage of comparing the situation of Carles Puigdemont and his comfortable spa stay in Brussels, escaped from the Spanish justice after his failed attack on the constitutional order, with that of thousands of compatriots who found themselves in exile, almost always miserable, to often atrocious, after the Franco victory.
The reaction of disgust that Spanish society felt then, and in particular the part that could be supposedly ideologically more related, should have led to a moment of reflection for Mr. Iglesias and for those who made him vice president and keep him in government.
Far from it, the still vice president allows himself, in full Catalan elections, to declare that in Spain "there is no situation of full democratic normality", undermining the image of our country at a time when its democratic credentials are opportunistically questioned. by a foreign minister.
To the injury is added disloyalty, with his own government colleagues, with all the State institutions and with a vast majority of Spaniards, who continue to bet on democracy born in 1978, always ready for changes and reforms that improve it, making it more inclusive and participatory.
The torrential intellectual and moral vulgarity that Mr. Iglesias has wasted in his political career deserves a detailed inventory that we will not do here.
We admit, however, that he has never deceived anyone.
He has always presented himself for what he is: a person socialized in rancor and incapable of understanding the historical importance and the moral height of the gesture of reconciliation between Spaniards that, in a Transition that he despises, founded our regime of democratic coexistence.
Undoing that embrace between Spaniards has always been his declared goal.
The slaps of the victims of terror and the flattery of criminals are part without shadows and concealment of their meager baggage.
As on that occasion when, seeking the applause of the fans, he praised the insight of ETA, for having been the first to "realize" that our Constitution of 78, a mere "piece of paper" in his words, had not brought any decent democracy of that name, thus implicitly endorsing ETA's long history of terror.
No, Pablo Iglesias has not deceived anyone, although it is worth wondering why he is part of the government of a State that he himself does not consider fully democratic and of a nation that he believes is artificial and oppressive (whose name, "Spain", according to his own confession, hard to pronounce).
If he really believes that Spain is not a democracy, his duty is to fight his government gallantly from the opposition, sacrificing his generous vice-president payroll on the altar of his ideals.
But the imposture of someone who aspires to govern a country that he despises is a curiosity that should not matter to us.
What matters to us is his presence in the Government of Spain, at the invitation of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, after the then candidate Pedro Sánchez denied his intention to form a government with United We Can, during the electoral campaign, precisely because of the presence of Churches in the cabinet the main stumbling block.
Well, the experiment has run its course.
No achievement, no commendable effort is known to Mr. Iglesias in the exercise of his position.
Making unforgivable statements and watching television series while they seem to be the only contents of your portfolio and your "broad purpose" for the legislature.
Therefore, we ask for the immediate removal of Vice President Iglesias.
The pathetic attempts to excuse their conduct compromise the entire government - a body, remember, collegiate.
If his dismissal does not take place, the electoral cost that the Socialist Party may suffer will be the least.
We should be more concerned with the precedent of having brought to the government a person whose only known virtue is demagoguery and whose only vocation is fronting.
Words have consequences.
Spanish democracy cannot allow the presence of an arsonist in the Council of Ministers.
Before history, the responsibility of whoever appointed him will remain. "
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