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The 40th anniversary of the coup attempt of 23-F will once again reveal the ever-widening rifts that are opening between the two partners in the coalition government and their allies in Congress.

Wounds that do not suture because each day the fingers sink into the sores.

Added to the increasingly bitter discrepancies regarding the most varied projects is the head-on clash over the quality of Spanish democracy and the defense of its institutions, starting with the head of state itself.

This Tuesday the differences will be public again when the main parliamentary supporters of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez -ERC, EH Bildu, PNV, Compromís and BNG- plus the CUP and Junts, express their contempt for the King and the act in defense of democracy and in memory of the attempted coup of February 23, 1981, with a parallel call for rejection.

None of these formations will attend the act of Congress, in which Felipe VI is expected to deliver a speech in defense of democratic freedoms.

Pablo Iglesias will attend

Yes, the representatives of the State institutions, the two living rapporteurs of the Constitution, the leader of the opposition, the parliamentary spokesmen, the President of the Government and all the vice-presidents, including Pablo Iglesias, will be present in the Chamber, despite being the The first voice that Spanish democracy has brought to the fore, relentlessly attacks a model of a monarchical state that it considers corrupt and justifies from the ranks of its party the violent protests that have been sweeping Barcelona for six days.

This Monday, the first vice president of the Government had the opportunity to stand up and contradict those who from within the Executive itself question the quality of democracy and those who, in the streets, echo this message that abounds in the idea of ​​a Repressive state, promoting riots with violence.

Carmen Calvo addressed each other, stressing that Spain is "one of the most important and solvent democracies in the world" and urged them to remember the events that took place 40 years ago so that this will serve to "always reaffirm in its defense every day".

The vice president spoke in these terms from the platform of the Cervantes Institute on the occasion of the monographic conference held on the 1981 coup attempt.

Calvo asks to "defend" democracy

Thus, he took advantage of the days of Cervantes, to which the President of the Government attended silently, to make an appeal to the youngest, urging them to revisit the example of the generation that knew how to face the attempted coup, to know how to "resist and defend" democracy at any time in which "clouds appear on the horizon" against freedoms.

The words of the government's

number two

come after Barcelona - and to a lesser extent, Madrid - has been the scene of violent protests for six consecutive nights with the excuse of demanding the release of rapper

Pablo Hasel

.

Protests that have caused harsh clashes against the Mossos d'Esquadra and have led to a spiral of destruction, robbery and vandalism.

Calvo admitted that democracy is an evolutionary state in which there can be multiple circumstances that lead to its improvement and adaptation, but warned against those that, deep down, what they want is to blow it up.

Thus he asked to be "a watchful eye with those who do not walk in the same direction but who work against him."

The vice president emphasized that the events of 23-F served four decades ago for Spaniards to practically unanimously confirm their commitment to the democratic path, so that the coup "was an evil that became a good" and that must be projected into the future.

Remember the "danger" of 23-F

Thus, he insisted on the importance of the youngsters knowing that those who had to live those convulsive events "knew how to be in their place and defend ourselves," an attitude that must now serve, he said, "to reaffirm ourselves in the defense of our democracy always and every day".

"Today," he concluded, "we must reaffirm our commitment that our democracy is never in the danger zone as it was on the night of 23-F."

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