• Newspaper library Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba dies at 67 after suffering a stroke

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba died more than two years ago, but his memory continues to arouse the expectation of a country that misses the way of doing politics of those who held the most important positions in the State.

On a day like this Monday, in which President Pedro Sánchez announced that he will pardon the Catalan independence leaders and Pablo Casado replied that he seeks to destroy the constitutional system, remembering Rubalcaba had something to recreate in the nostalgia for consensus.

On the summer solstice, the Felipe González Foundation - depository of the Rubalcaba legacy - organized in the garden of the Student Residence the delivery of the Rojana Prize that bears the name of the former socialist leader to José María Pérez Peridis.

The memory of who starred in politics for three decades was able to unite what, at least apparently, seems difficult to unite. Under the shadow of Rubalcaba and to the special pride of his widow, Pilar Goya, the former socialist presidents, Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - despite their differences - take shelter, but also the former president of the PP Government, Mariano Rajoy , and the former president of Congress, Ana Pastor. The former popular leader does not miss an opportunity to praise Rubalcaba's political stature. Upon his arrival, the journalists asked him if he believes, as Pablo Casado has said, that pardons can change the political system in Spain. Rajoy did not respond.

The shadow of Rubalcaba can also shelter several ministers of the Government of Pedro Sánchez -Ábalos, Iceta, Grande-Marlaska, Isabel Celáa, and other former high-ranking socialist officials critical of Pedro Sánchez's territorial policy. The Rubalcaba universe also encompasses the regional presidents and a great multitude of socialist, intellectual, thinker, scientific, scientific, professorial and journalistic historical positions.

With the permission of Elena Valenciano, the former deputy secretary of the PSOE who accompanied him in the hardest moments in Ferraz, and the winner, the star of the tribute was Felipe González, who confessed that he had not been able to erase Rubalcaba's contact from his mobile phone.

"I miss Alfredo's ability to operate difficult situations."

The former president wanted to take advantage of the occasion to ask the parties for agreements such as those of La Moncloa and the Constitution.

"We lack political operators like Alfredo to prepare the agreements, we need to create spaces that we can share. We live in a historical momentum that will define our future. We have to take care of democracy."

Pardons floated in the air, but without exaggeration.

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