A PP “A kettlement” | Opinion

Alejandro Fernández is one of the few Spanish politicians capable of pronouncing the words « Michael Oakeshott » Without choking, a rarity in a country where conservatives themselves tend to interpret the term « conservative » as an insult and hide their convictions as if they were a syphilis. It is curious, therefore, that Fernández has drawn attention in this life by two manifestations that would have left Don Jaime Balmes speechless: Version a song by Lady Gaga -“Ale-Alejandro”-in his campaign to the mayor of Tarragona in 2011 and publish, already these days and as leader of the PP in Catalonia, A book under the title A Quitao kettle. Specifically, one of those books-pump that Illustrate little in command Of the matches but they entertain the positions and the bases a lot: if Proust brought the gossip to literature, we are not going to discover the power of the human factor – who you praise, whom you omit, who you send to whom Wasaps— In politics.

View the extension, at all overwhelming, and the effective power of the party, I tempt to think that a book on the Catalan PP should not cause more interest than the Petanca League of the Alto Alberche: another local epiphenomenon. The Catalan PP also has a feature that shares with the Madrid PSOE: the fact of being few house very well with being badly avenues. And yet, the book deserves the attention of all those who, In times of precongressual warming, They attend right. Who lad A Quitao kettle You will not know whether a manifesto or a political will, but in any case a very unleashed exercise of recklessness. Who deplies the asthenia of our conservatives regarding convictions, will find fiber and self -confidence. And a detail that is not a detail: the book has the express support – a prologue with send to Feijóo – of Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, that has an undoubted ascendant when sanctioning what should enter and what not in the orthodoxy of the PP. See that Cayetana’s coexistence with Feijóo is one of the indicators for which we read that in the party it is committed to its president from passing from Genoa to the Moncloa. A reason for not despair while Sánchez, so many times had as provisional, hard in the eyes of the PP what one was geological.

In a game usually comfortable in ideological ambiguities, Friend of warm water, the next congress will serve to banish that shout of philistine war – « more tents and less ideas! » – that arose precisely from a prosecutor of the Catalan PP. It is no longer about incarnating a style: it’s time to define positions. And Catalonia enters here. By principle: It is impossible to be a national party without being a Catalan party. And also by counting: he is an electorate who again gives the PSOE and removes the PP. In spite of everything, if Fernández’s book can be read as an elegy, it can also be read as a hope: of its pages it is concluded that the strange thing is that the Catalan PP has not disappeared. However, perhaps the wisest thing is to read it as spiritual exercises to prepare the Congress: examination of consciousness and spirit of amendment.

This implies removing some illusions. You have to close the Majestic reserved with seven keys. The nineties will not return. That leading conviction that Spain forge as an agreement between elites in Madrid and Elites in Barcelona did not even work. For a part of the Spanish right, the pactist rhetoric was a way of washing its awareness of the transfer of competences in exchange for power. But for another it was a well -intentioned adanism. In any case, Pactics made water since nationalism did not want to commit to the state government. In the end, he achieved something better than competencies: a symbolic primacy by which the nationalists – say what the polls say – not only speak for Catalan nationalism but also throughout Catalonia. Nothing very encouraging for yours, thus reduced to an anomaly of the system. It is unique that this was done by a national vocation center party.

THE MYTH OF THE MAJESTIC, However, as a Sebastianism of our right, it is the one that has oriented this time its relationship with nationalism. It is the melancholic myth of Spain that was possible. It operates every time, buried any notion of integrative Catalan, the rather mythological animal of the moderate nationalist is sought. It operates every time some Pepero arrives from Madrid to court the condescension – the Cercle, the Civet – of the local philog « elites. And it operates every time, after allowing all radicalisms to theirs, a nationalist forgives life to the « civilized right », like that French nobleman who took the hand of his maid and said: « Go! But if you also have five fingers! »

As has happened so many times – functions, communism – to the elites responsible for the excesses of the Proces They have overlooked the faults on condition of not giving much can. There is melancholy for all: if it was symbolic to get the Steal To the balcony, even more it has been to remove it. In a opinion about their recent past, the Catalans voted for Illa as ibuprofen for the independence hangover and paracetamol against inflammation. A repentant vote, with conservative withdrawal, which Illa wanted to dress at the same time with institutional loyalty and Pujolian paternalism. Will it continue now on that line Or – like it – begins the overlap with ERC? The same gives: the greatest value of Fernández’s book, after reviewing the glory and falling citizens, is the identification of abandoned but still consistent and explicit nationalism. Let’s see if they buy the merchandise in the congress of your party. Blacker swans have flown.