The title of this article is not the result of chance. It is simply the price that the economist, Ramón Tamames, has put on the speech reproduced in the temple of national sovereignty last week, a kind of "analysis for the renewal of political and social life", on the AMAZON platform. See how economical it is to occupy a seat and launch all kinds of fusillades.
"Gentlemen", gentlemen and, -I would like to add- ladies, so as not to forget 49.5% of the global citizenry, I will ask you to take your seats, have a cup of tea, and pay attention to one of the most decisive moments in Spanish politics since the constitutional model rests on democracy and the rule of law (article 1.1 Spanish Constitution (CE)).
Anyone who has enjoyed this grotesque spectacle, more typical of Valle Inclán's country than of the year 2023, will have realized that the objective pursued by the motion of censure (regulated in articles 113 et seq. CE) was more than violated. If we remember, or simply read these precepts, it is undeniable to recognize that it is a legal instrument, legitimately adequate, -when the necessary majorities are adjusted-, and is duly employed. In this case, there was neither a constructive project on the part of the candidate for the presidency, Ramón Tamames, nor much less an effective debate on the alleged proposals. His intervention was closer to a presentation by an outdated professor in his full splendor than to an articulated program of alternative government. They already proceed shamelessly, anticipating their promising rallies and campaigns, without prior notice.
The motion of censure presented by Vox was doomed to failure before it started. The political instrumentalization by means of this legitimizing and constitutional weapon helped to devalue a Lower House obliged to spend its time on a motion with no possibility of success and which also disregarded the future of Spain and the international reality.
The ruined scenario outlined by the candidate promoted that, the President of the Government, first, and the Vice-President, later, reversed the objective of the motion. Far from the general consensus, the Ramón Tamames candidacy has left more pros than cons. The critical evaluation that the candidate intended, with a somewhat disoriented ego, became the comparison of two models of government. The interest that (did not) arouse has served us to know what the current government has done in its years of legislature. The interventions of both leaders sowed hope, good work, and good politics. I don't know if the past time would be better, but I am convinced that the present time and the one to come do not fit the reactionary, invented and anachronistic reality in which Mr. Tamames would like to live.
The candidate's argumentative weakness coupled with his lack of a constructive program for Spain highlighted two issues: the danger of normalizing statements such as "Latin Americans find jobs the day after arriving in the country" or "women are used as currency", without providing a single piece of data to prove the entity of such assertions, calling to degrade the functions of a 21st century democracy and to generate messages of hatred based on fallacies; and the ability of the Government to redirect this motion, with the firmness of the interventions, the solvency of the work well done and the gratitude to how many ministries are committed to make it possible in an attempt to lend a hand in troubled times within the coalition government.
Without a doubt, it has been worth listening to him, but also, it has given a lot of grief. The idea that everything in the past was better denotes a null capacity to recognize the generations to come of Spaniards to be right and wrong.
