Fifty years later, the street is still Fraga's

There is debate about whether Fraga actually said the phrase "The street is mine," which haunted him to the grave, through the song La Trinca. Ramón Tamames claimed that he had said it to him when, in 1976, he wanted to organize a May Day demonstration in front of the Ministry of Labor and the then vice president called him to remind him that it was prohibited. "The street belongs to everyone," Tamames snapped. "The street is mine," he says Fraga replied, but he denied it and attributed the response to a director of the Civil Guard. Things of the lifelong democratsWhether true or false, the PP, in politics and in the media, has been acting for decades as if public roads were indeed its property, especially on Sundays when someone else is in power in Moncloa.

This Friday, the right-wing newspapers put aside the arduous task of reporting news and openly call for Sunday's demonstration, with headlines such as "Feijóo calls for "filling the streets" while "waiting for the polls"" (Abc) or "Feijóo decides to lead the street against Sánchez's "mafia"" (The World). It's funny, because when the left organizes a march, the formulations usually include verbs like "stirs up," "instrumentalizes," and talk of a "messianic mass bath," among other phrases with similar connotations. If the right does it, however, it's part of the natural order of things, and they talk about leadership and filling the streets as a civic duty from media outlets where good journalism is mixed with trench-like and Manichean journalism, close to the British tabloids in methods and intent. None of the newspapers censure Feijóo for his use of the word. mafia, while when Podemos spoke of breed It was all mockery and admonitions. In short, if the grays were the ones who controlled the streets in the 1970s, now they're trying to do it with the yellows: who says the world isn't evolving?