A little more than 40 days ago that Ramón Tamames took his 89 years all the spotlights for leading the second motion of censure of Vox against Pedro Sánchez. Now the professor of Economics has turned that experience into a book, as EL MUNDO advanced then. In it he addresses how the operation was conceived, why he accepted Santiago Abascal's proposal or who intervened to help him.

The book on the ins and outs of the initiative is entitled Me duele España. A motion of censure to revive hope. It has been published by the Almuzara publishing house and goes on sale for a price of 12.30 euros. It is the second volume that Tamames has released on the motion at this time. The first was basically about the speech he prepared to read in the Congress of Deputies, which he summarized to a large extent when he delivered it, and which he entitled Por una España de todos. Our best future.

The new text is much more voluminous than that. It consists of 224 pages and in them he narrates the preparations for the motion of censure and how were the relations and negotiations with Vox, which presented him with the poster of being the first independent candidate in such an initiative, which culminated on March 21 and 22. That vitola of independent produced notorious clashes with those of Abascal when the former communist leader expressed in interviews postulates radically different from those of Vox.

What is not yet known is whether Tamames will tell in the book the episode of the leak of his candidate speech, which occurred a few days before the motion. That exploded part of the surprise of his intervention, even though it was an old version of the text.

"This book is born from the indignation and hope of a wise man. It symbolizes the cry of rebellion of all those who, like Unamuno and Tamames, are hurt by Spain," reads the cover of the book, which bears the facade of Congress as an illustration.

Tamames will present the book next Thursday, May 11, a few hours before the start of the campaign for the regional and municipal elections. The event will be at 19:00 p.m. at the Ateneo de Madrid, where the historian Emilio de Diego, of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, will also intervene.

The publisher gives maximum importance to Tamames' story. "Rarely, if ever, has there been a political event of the media dimension in Spain that was the motion of censure of March 2023, driven by a proposal from the parliamentary group Vox and headed as candidate for the presidency of the Government by Ramón Tamames," he says. "A page in the history of Spain... that will be studied for decades."

Similarly, he points out that the professor reveals "a conflictive situation that should have given way to a recovery of the values of the Democratic Transition of 1977 and the Constitution of 1978: on the path of consensus and harmony to advance towards the prosperity of the whole of Spain".

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