Rajoy is not the only one who doesn't remember anything

Rajoy has emerged from the fog to go to Congress – despite himself – to appear in the framework of the parliamentary investigation of the so-called Catalunya operation, with the patriotic police attributed to his minister Jorge Fernández Díaz. There are not enough lines of raisins on the planet to cure the former president's lack of memory, who claimed to know nothing. Not about Gürtel. Not about the Kitchen. Not about the Bárcenas envelopes. In the following paragraph I will give you my opinion on the matter (and then you will understand why I specify it formally).

No one can believe that these despicable practices were carried out behind their backs. I know of no case in the European Union in which the facilities and apparatus of a state institution are used as a partisan instrument for the political and personal destruction of its adversaries. Once again, the rest of the EU must be called upon: there is no doubt that the scandal would be enormous and would lead to the fall of the government. Can anyone imagine Starmer, Scholz, Macron or Meloni making such a mistake?

The sentences in this second paragraph are not mine. They were written a few months ago by Francisco Marhuenda, director of The reason, in a column in which, of course, I did not give my opinion on Rajoy but on the right-wing mud machine that has denounced Pedro Sánchez many times. I have not touched anything, I have only translated them. But, as you can see, they fit like a latex glove to what can be thought of the dubious behavior of Don Mariano, incapable of grasping anything that was happening in his face. And, above all, they reveal the cynicism of part of the press, which is scandalized by the leak of an email about Ayuso's partner while for years it published all the (mis)information that was fabricated in the putrid kitchen of the Ministry of the Interior. Democratic hygiene begins by examining oneself.