MADRID, 15 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The politician and economist Ramón Tamames, Vox candidate for his motion of no confidence, will defend the Spanish Transition in his speech on Tuesday, March 21, while demanding an advancement of the general elections to May 28; he will criticize the “idealized Second Republic” in the Democratic Memory Law and will ask to reform the electoral law so that the pro-independence parties do not achieve “overrepresentation” and influence in the Government of Spain.
The draft of the candidate’s speech, advanced by ‘Eldiario.es’, and which still needs to be approved by Vox, begins with a statement of reasons and thanks to the leader of the party proposing the motion, Santiago Abascal, for allowing him to return to Congress and, in his words, “pay personally” a “last tribute to the defense of current and future interests of Spain”.
After reviewing his academic and political career, the economist focuses his message on the President of the Government, whom he demands for the “urgent” call for general elections for May 28, making them coincide with the municipal and regional elections.
Tamames recalls the demonstration on January 1 in the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid where people “demonstrated for the basic liberties of all peoples”, among which he cites “our common language, Spanish” which, in his opinion, ” is reviled” in Catalonia. Thus, he makes Sánchez ugly that he does not show the “will to correct the recurring breaches” of the Generalitat regarding the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to comply with 25% of Spanish in the schools of said community.
In this sense, the candidate also criticizes the “eagerness” of the chief executive to “divide the Spanish” and “try to dictate the history” of the Spanish nation to his liking with the approval of a partisan Democratic Memory Law that is missing to “the truth” and favors “an idealized Second Republic”.
In this field, Tamames also spoke about the Spanish civil war in which, according to what he says, “there is not a good and a bad side” and on both sides “atrocities were committed”. This, affirms Tamames, is “misrepresenting the truth” and trying to “throw away the 1977 Amnesty Law.”
Later, the candidate reviews the different presidents that Spain has had since Felipe González, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, charging against the assignments that these governments made, according to criticism, to the pro-independence parties, especially the Executive of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who made them “with apparent satisfaction”.
However, the candidate sees in the stage of Pedro Sánchez that the “constitutional architecture” that was agreed upon in the Transition is in danger because, in his opinion, “the State of Autonomies itself has been deformed, in which the main objective now of the separatist partners –of Sánchez– is to render useless article 2 of the Constitution on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation”.
Thus, Tamames once again insists on the call for elections so that the current coalition government does not continue granting “the most harmful legislative assignments” to the investiture partners “who are putting that 1978 constitutional architecture at risk.” “Spain is more like a modern absorbing autocracy,” he emphasizes in his writing.
In this context, the economist calls for a reform of the electoral law to prevent the “overrepresentation” of the pro-independence parties from the outgoing “new government of the Nation” after this advance of the elections and that it be “the generality of the Spanish people that safeguards the future of Spain and not its dissolution”.
In addition, it warns that nationalist forces replace the concept of “nationalities with nations” until the right of self-determination of nations and regions is reflected. Thus, Tamames will question Parliament if “it is going to accept the attempt to change the political regime without prior recourse to articles 166 and following of reform of the Constitution.”
He will also accuse the Government of wanting to control the judges; it will propose that “the designation of the magistrates of the Supreme Court and of the Constitutional Court be for life”, as in the Council of State; and will censor the “abuse” of decree laws by the Executive, in addition to creating laws “that are harmful to the country” such as the “only yes is yes” law.
In reference to Spanish foreign policy, Tamames points out three cases: Morocco, Gibraltar and Latin America. As for the first, he criticizes that the last High Level Meeting (RAN) that was held on February 2 in Rabat was “tarnished” by the absence of King Mohamed VI, which was replaced by a phone call.
In the same way, he cites the issue of Western Sahara, which represents a “problem to be solved” due to the change of course in “Spanish politics” whose consequences, he assures, will be “especially negative in the case of Algeria.”
