A divided right demands the unity of Spain

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  Columbus's plan

An important part of the Spanish left has put its republican faith in the same place where Iñigo Urkullu has put his aspiration to independence and where it seemed that Catalan nationalism put it for many years.

In that place where legitimate aspirations and historical affections converge with the will to coexist and a pragmatism derived from the passing of time.

Something like: "Come on, let's go, if this is the formula that allows us to live together and prosper, go ahead."

Democracy was this.

What has the right, meanwhile, done with the concept of Spain? Nothing. Spain is "his Spain". Not the ultra, marginal and irrelevant right. The right that has governed and that aspires to govern again. Nothing. Spain continues to be that of “the good Spaniards”, the expression that we have heard over the last 40 years against any policy with which they disagreed, apart from the inclusion of “nationalities” in Title VIII of the Constitution. or divorce, abortion or euthanasia, any modification of the relationship with the Catholic Church or the push for the end of ETA, equal marriage or historical memory. When the wind of history makes many of these changes irreversible, they assume them as their own, and direct their interests towards the new goal, whatever it may be, whoever falls.The following has been the Numantine resistance to any territorial reform. Only they interpret what Spain is and print the stamped paper of patriotism. Never linked to where you pay taxes, for example. Always linked to his cultural imagination.

Columbus 2

has been the apotheosis of the contradictions of the good Spaniards. A divided right, which does not even want to make a portrait together, crying out to the left for the unity of Spain. And before the self-proclaimed constitutionalists, the most powerful leader among those present, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, questioning the head of State in case it occurs to him to comply with the Constitution when signing the pardons that the Government of the nation decides in one or two weeks . The later sainete of rectifications and counter-rectifications of the protagonist is already part of the internal battle for power, where, apparently, there are no limits either. Not the King.