The former president of the government Felipe Gonzalez He declared this Thursday that “the Constitution of 78 must be reset to preserve the territorial integrity of the State”.
This was expressed during his speech at a meeting titled “Competitiveness and Governance. The European debate”, as part of the Toja Forum which takes place in the Galician city and which on each occasion offers a meeting between two former government presidents: in addition to González, Mariano Rajoy, in what has already become a classic debate joined this year by Antonio Costa, President-elect of the European Council.
González explained that the Constitution “must be reset with modifications and reforms that preserve a greater good: the territorial integrity of what is called Spain, which is a nation-state.” In this sense, the question was asked: “Are we clear now? I don’t think it’s because there are determining forces that oppose maintaining territorial integrity.
He first socialist president of Spanish democracy sent an indirect message to the current head of the Executive: “No matter how you feel, we must reach agreements with the State. Otherwise we will all go down the drain.
González wanted to remember the transition and explained that this process was a success “because we agreed with the people: they preferred to be the children of democracy rather than the grandchildren of the civil war. Where was the Constitution voted for the most? In Catalonia: on the basis of freedom, amnesty and autonomous status.
He then spoke Mariano Rajoywho began, with his usual tone, by declaring and “without serving as a precedent”, that he “agrees with Felipe González”. “In Spain there have been no elections where the first and second were not the PP or the PSOE.” “Bipartisanship has done a lot of good in this country,” he stressed before locating the origin of the problem: “What is the problem that broke this trend toward consensus? The Frankenstein government. “The day it was installed, the problems started.”
González previously spoke of the small parties that have tried to overcome the two-party system, “which rise like rockets and fall like chutes.” Using irony, Rajoy gave them names: “Parties are emerging of which no one knows where they are. Does anyone know where UPyD is located here? Citizens and Podemos? And others will come soon,” he predicts. “The two-party system will return, but it will be exercised,” he said in the presence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Edmond’s victory
At the plenary session was the Venezuelan opposition candidate, Edmundo González, whom Mariano Rajoy did not hesitate to proclaim the winner of the July 28 elections. In addition, former President Rajoy criticized the Spanish government, without however quoting Sánchez or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares: “We could ask some people for a little more defense of democracy and freedom in Venezuela” , he declared.
For his part, Felipe Gonzalez He said Edmundo “did not win the elections, Maduro lost them. “Who won them?” Nobody knows.”
