Alsina, sobre los apuntes de Leire Díez: "Que P.S. puede significar Pedro Sánchez ofrece poca duda"

The host of Más de uno analyzes Pope Leo XIV's visit to Spain and his unprecedented presence in the Congress of Deputies, as well as the latest developments in the Leire Díez case. #pedrosánchez #sanchez #psoe #españa https://www.ondacero.es/programas/mas... It was a Wednesday, the eve of the feast day of Saint Teresa of Ávila. The Minister of War took to the podium of this very same chamber where the Pope will speak today. “I am not here to declare war,” he said, “on the contrary, what I bring is a proposal for readjusting the peace.” The minister was not speaking in his capacity as a reformer of the armies, or as a provisional ruler, but as the leader of the small Republican party, filled with intellectuals—representing five and a half percent of the vote—which was part of the government, also provisional, headed by a conservative Catholic lawyer. The party was called Republican Action, its leader was Manuel Azaña, and the prime minister was Alcalá Zamora. From the rostrum of Congress, Azaña uttered the phrase that would shatter the government and, for years, infuriate the confessional right: “Spain has ceased to be Catholic.” “That there are millions of Catholics in Spain is a fact I do not dispute, but the essence of a country is not the numerical sum of its inhabitants’ beliefs, but rather the course it wishes to follow to realize its ideals.” We must renew our State from the ground up, respecting freedom of conscience, of course, everyone's freedom, but recognizing that the modern State is not concerned with saving souls but with organizing coexistence. And I refuse to call this a religious problem because religion resides in the intimacy of conscience, and what we are discussing here is how our State should be constituted. Almost fifty years later, the Constituent Cortes of the transition, leaving behind Franco's confessional dictatorship, drew on the spirit of 1931 but did not dare to go so far. Secularism was replaced by a substitute: Spain is non-denominational but with an obligation for public authorities to cooperate with the Catholic Church and other religious denominations. The Catholic Church, being the majority religion in 1978, is the only one mentioned by name. This morning, the Palace of the Cortes, the same building that heard Azaña and witnessed the drafting of the 1978 Constitution, welcomes the head of the Vatican State: the Pope. He is received and listened to in his capacity as head of state, but with the understanding that, far above all else, the Pope is a religious leader whose public pronouncements are rooted in the doctrine of the Church he leads and his own interpretation of that doctrine. Leo XIV appears not before Spanish Catholics, not before his faithful, but before all Spaniards: Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, agnostics, and, of course, atheists. All of them respect the Pope's beliefs, just as he is obligated to respect those who simply do not believe. Given that this is a political forum, what is expected of Robert Prevost is not a homily but a speech—on those issues he deems appropriate to raise with the representatives of Spanish society. It is more likely that Leo XIV will reflect on immigration, a phenomenon present in almost all his speeches and the reason for this visit to Spain (to the Canary Islands). It would be revealing if the cameras focused on the PP (People's Party) deputies if the Pope were to condemn, for example, those who demonize unaccompanied foreign minors and sign government commitments that say "not one more unaccompanied minor in this region." Or those who condemn organizations that help undocumented immigrants to not receive a single euro in subsidies. The Prime Minister has given an interview to a radio station; that in itself is news. The station is a music station, Radio Primavera Sound. And the news the Prime Minister delivered there is that, contrary to what many fear, he does contemplate the possibility of stepping down as Prime Minister someday. The day Sánchez tied himself up. He didn't know about the scandals, they disgust him, and, had he known about them, he wouldn't have tolerated them. To claim he wouldn't have tolerated them is to claim the power to stop them. In other words, if it were ever proven that he did know about them, it would have to be concluded that, knowing about them, he tolerated them. And that, by not aborting them, he induced them. Is it possible that Cerdán received the Villarejo audio recording about his father-in-law's saunas on April 25th and passed it on to El País, allegedly to be disseminated as proof of a persecution of Sánchez and his family without first informing the president of what he had obtained? It's possible. Is it credible? That... well, that's a matter of opinion.