'El Mundo's' pincers to extract a headline

Cándido Conde-Pumpido sits in the dentist's chair, ready to let The World It's a headline that's ripped off. To carry out this delicate extraction, a clear maneuver involves cleaning up the surrounding crowns, that is, the context. Only in this way can the progressive president of the Constitutional Court proclaim with great fanfare on the front page: "Anyone who is politically against the amnesty has many reasons to be against it." He goes even further when he states, in a subheading: "If citizens don't agree with the amnesty law, it's up to them to respond to the elections." If they had been able to unravel the pliers a little more, the man would have ended up directly asking for a vote for the People's Party (PP).

A glance at the interview text shows how the first sentence, without what precedes it, is misleading. Conde-Pumpido is saying that objections to the amnesty law can only be political, not legal. And, therefore, it's a matter of taste. This explains also The phrase in the subtitle. Other parliamentary majorities will favor the approval of laws in a different or even opposite direction. The garlic soup of politics and the separation of powers. But expressed like this, and putting the two phrases aside, it seems as if he is against amnesty and recommends changing the government to fix the mess. The same thing happens with another of the subtitles: "I find it absolutely inappropriate for the government to insinuate Constitutional Court resolutions favorable to its interests." The interviewer stirs the instruments until he once again dislodges a piece of gum. Because, before, the poor toothless jurist had similarly denounced the political forces that criticize him. The phrase is a defense of his independence, but, as we know, when you leave the dentist's office with a numb mouth, it's easy to misunderstand.