Country of 'pandeireta' in Eurovision

The rumor that Spain does not want to win Eurovision has been based for years both on crazy elections and on the memory of that national jury that at the last gasp gave Israel its 10 points, leaving Betty Missiego with a silver that tasted like gall.

It took a long time, because the children who shouted "hey, senior!" They are already old enough to rescue their pension plan, but at last RTVE will fight backbiting with exciting names and a selection process that will no longer be a shabby gala, but a renovated Benidorm Festival - I refuse to call it Benidorm Fest. Respect for a brand that tastes like

and peppermint.

Among the candidates to travel to Turin, Rigoberta Bandini, Varry Brava paying tribute to Raffaella Carrà --that is knowing how to handle the field factor, not like when we sent Lucía to London with a tango in the middle of the Malvinas

war--

and the dazzling

de Tanxugueiras. , three tambourines singing in Galician that vindicate a tradition and a language that should be a national pride, because let's see what is richer than a language and more painful than denying that opulence.

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I have no proof, but I also have no doubts, that there are no stones in the backpacks of Spanish-speaking schoolchildren in Catalonia, as no one pretends that in my land children only know about granaries and frixuelos, another nonsense of a man installed in nonsense -

-.

Nor do I doubt that more than stones there will be rocks in the path of those who dare to challenge the worst understood centralism.

But what a good tribute it would be for that retreating Serrat who 54 years ago was denied the possibility of victory to see the Galician women in Turin and that they

us to

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