• Politics Abascal reacts to tie Tamames with Vox in a nervous breakdown
  • Motion of censure Vox admits that "the right wing" of the party "does not understand" the 'Tamames operation'

Spain as a supernation of nations; full respect for Pedro Sánchez to the point of wanting to have dinner with him; nothing to challenge the state of the autonomies; nor a word of abortion either; a federal Spain, linked to the opportunity that opened up for nationalism after the illegal referendum of 1-O... The journey undertaken between Vox and its candidate in the motion of censure, Ramón Tamames, has been completely tortuous, for the opinions and / or reflections – those pointed out at the beginning of this chronicle, among many others – that the former politician who distance him from the ideology of Vox. But to that convulsion by the ideology of the candidate, which has led to the first signs of division in Vox, with the sectors more to the right of the party questioning the strategy, has a last-minute continuity: the candidate's speech has been leaked six days before the motion of censure and hours before Tamames himself appears in Congress with Santiago Abascal, The leader of the formation.

The full text that the former politician of the PCE and IU will read this Monday was advanced late on the night eldiario.es. As EL MUNDO was able to confirm, it is, in effect, an almost definitive version of the speech, which the economist would have been sharing with his acquaintances to obtain their opinions. From Vox, which also has in its possession the document to outline the last details, they had warned him to control the distribution, but once again, in these months around the motion of censure, they have lost control of the situation.

Tamames, along 31 pages, divided into 30 chapters and a folio of conclusions, details his vision of the current moment, rather than presenting a political program of government. Its strong line is that Spain "resembles more an absorbing modern autocracy" than an exemplary democracy. It doesn't go much further in tone. While the green bench often appeals to the illegitimacy of the president and the Government, Tamames speaks of an Executive that resorts to "demagoguery and populism", while defending, yes, that Vox is a fully democratic party that represents millions of Spaniards and has a remarkable strength in Parliament, with 52 deputies. It will be only those who endorse this motion, with the PP located, right now, in abstention, unlike the motion of censure led by Abascal, whom they rejected harshly.

Tamames legitimizes himself to lead the initiative because, he says, "I think that after retirement there are people who officially live a second life even more interesting than the previous one." The discourse, which reveals eldiario.es, begins in self-justification. The motion would be his "last tribute to the defense of the current and future interests of Spain."

Tamames, who last Monday acknowledged in an interview in this newspaper that he has never voted for Vox – nor does he promise it in the next elections – synthesizes his proposal in the "urgent request to call general elections, calling them for next May 28 already set for the municipal and regional elections. " A man who comes from the communist tradition and Franco's repression charges against "the so-called Democratic Memory, lacking the truth with no little partisanship and favoring an idealized second republic." From there he concludes that Sánchez is an element that fractures society and therefore must be removed as soon as possible, going through the polls.

At 89 years old, he comes to make a vindication of the generation of the Transition, to which he belongs, in the line of other characters of the political left opposed to Sanchismo and the scope of Podemos. Tamames, in particular, goes so far as to say that in the Civil War "there is no good side and a bad side" and welcomes the equidistance: "Atrocities were committed on both sides." "To try to limit them now to practically only one of those sides is to lack the truth and overwhelm the Amnesty Law of 1977," can be read in the document advanced late on Wednesday.

Criticism of González, Aznar and Rajoy

It does not save any government, even if it is especially forceful against the current one. Also Felipe González, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy grant concessions to nationalisms. Of course, at no time does Tamames propose, as Vox repeatedly does, the illegalization of pro-independence formations such as ERC or EH Bildu, which give cover to the current Executive. Says the former communist, who defended the state of autonomy in the first legislature, "has been deformed" by the "separatist partners" of Moncloa, with the intended aim of "rendering Article 2 of the Constitution on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation useless." In the opinion of the Vox candidate, "the legislative cessions" of the president "are putting at risk that constitutional architecture of 1978." To limit the power of the nationalists, he proposes a change in the electoral law to limit their "over-representation".

It also dwells on the deterioration of the independence of the Justice – it proposes a lifetime election in the TC and the TS; He condemns the legal uncertainty that has been created with the law of only yes is yes and, as a prestigious economist, they extend their analysis of the current situation. He defends that the will of Podemos to cap some prices goes in "the same line as the Chavista regime of rationing by the Government". He also accuses Yolanda Díaz of having eroded "almost all small and medium-sized businesses in Spain" with the rise of the SMI or censorship that talks about the price of dismissal being too low in Spain, says Tamames, who in the first legislature sat side by side with Marcelino Camacho. A lifetime has passed. And this epilogue Tamames ends by thanking Abascal, "for the opportunity".

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