The chronicler does not become transcendent. Without him, the kingin Paiporta, the State would have ended, fallen, with a president on the run. The statement that defines this title is not an invention or a laudatory attribution to the happily reigning monarch, never better said. prevailing; is the faithful translation of several conversations these days with eminent and important representatives of our civil society who, in one way or another, have had contacts, more informal than formal, with Philip VI.
One of them, I will not say who, knew first hand why the king remained unchanged, severe in gestures and in face, on the terrible morning when a good part of the martyred population, of Paiporta, fell on those -there. , As they believed (they were right to think so) he had left them alone to face the desolation caused by the damned. DANA.
The reason – believes the columnist – which pushed the Head of State to stay in the face of this strong protest was the following: “If I leave – he must have thought for himself – the state stops here“. That’s how serious it is, how important it is. He did not arrive in Paiporta with the assurance of a celebratory reception, as he has since in Chiva, but he believed that the events and the popular response would develop in a less aggressive manner. But when he found out that had gotten out of hand for everyone, he decided in a second to remain expressive and courageous in his position surrounded by loud people, some clearly violent. A neighbor from Paiport said to the king, when the chaos was already disappearing: “You must understand us, you are a soldier.
And, wow, the King got them! While the recognized fugitive Pedro Sanchez Fleeing under the aegis of his escorts, Felipe VI listened to everyone and, as in his place as always, responded in this way to an exalted man who demanded that “something be done with us”: “I don’t does not command the government; “It’s democracy.”
To explain this sentence, the following deduction is possible: the king, even in moments as critical as these and with the president of the government leaving the scene precipitously, has made it known that his role is of support, of cover, of affection, but never political action. Now, when the government disappears or fails to respond, it is there, remaining in the first stage of greeting, embodying the State. What was left of the state at that point was really very little.
If he had left following the withdrawal of his head of government, this convulsion would have turned into a brutal popular revolt consequences that we are unable to imagine at present. The minds of hundreds of victims were not destined for sweets or sweet, religious, comforting words; They were almost, or almost, for the revolution.
The state was collapsing in Paiporta, so it is no exaggeration to say that Felipe VI barely saved it. destruction. And whoever speaks of State naturally speaks of Spain. Rarely, fortunately, the crown had to intervene only a few minutes, when Spain could have collapsed: the February 23 1981, when a commando generaloteswith swords typical of the 19th century, attacked the rule of law; or in October 2017when the secessionist, seditious and cowardly politicians of a part of Spain, Catalonia, rose up against the Constitution.
The third, without extremes, the one where, with the presidency of the government in flight and the ministers cocooned in the comfort of their refuges in Madrid, Felipe VI knew, without fuss, that he remained alone at the head of the State; that the others had fled because, according to the president’s statements, their lives were in danger. The liar literally said.
This gives the impression that after Valence And Paiportaa new, much more active and more present role for our Crown was born. You surely heard at that time many soldiers – some influential then and now – expressing their reservations about the appointment of the general. Gan Pampols as leader of Valencian reconstruction.
This is undoubtedly the same as some of us reminded that the mission of the army is not to rebuild devastated areas, but to offer security guarantees to those who work directly on replacing infrastructure or the reconstruction of the multitude of damaged buildings. It is very possible – you will see – that General Gan’s command, accustomed to rigid military discipline, will encounter incomprehension, reluctance or resistance in the general political classSpanish and Valencian. How long – I wonder – the communists of Lenin And Stalin Do you undertake to criticize the work of Gan, a soldier whom, as such, you absolutely detest?
Such people often attack the state of which they are victims and the government encourages, pushes and protects them. I ask: do you know how many times a vote in Parliament has been interrupted to prevent the result from being contrary to the interests of the government? Well yes: one, this one from last Tuesday during the embarrassing session which attempted to consecrate the confiscation of everyone’s money the Spaniards with abusive taxes. The other? well, when Weaver and his friends broke into the Congress of Deputies and tried to abort the appointment of a president of the government.
In Paiporta, the king saved the fallen state, without political command, in ruins, in Madrid, in Parliament; he The PSOE and its comrades They tried to overthrow him. New question: how many more times will the King have to act to abort this Government’s attempts to destroy the constitutional order, the State in short?
We await with real expectation the royal Christmas speech that this time, you will see, he will leave aside the congratulations of the moment, to place us, Spaniards, before this terrible certainty: the Crown is currently the great protagonist of the constitutional State of 78. The King saved Spain at Paiporta because. he surely thinks, rightly so, that if he had left like it wasn’t his thing, the state wouldn’t even exist today. It’s clear.
