What comes back more: garlic or the Transition?

Less than half a week has passed since the fiftieth anniversary of Franco's death and the newspapers are already in full-on mode sheet Transition, as if the step between a dictatorship and a (very imperfect) democracy had been a matter of seventy-two hours. They celebrate half a century of pact, which it was, but they omit that this agreement was based on a series of willful oversights and refusals to settle scores, which have prevented the deep wound from healing. King Felipe occupies most of the front pages with his timid defense of his father. Of all the headlines, this one stands out to me: The reason"The King renews the Crown's link with democracy." Aside from the aesthetic displeasure of seeing Crown in capital letters and democracy in lowercase, because it denotes submission of the second to the first, the phrase ends up being a non-small excusatio, manifest accusatio From what I know, the figure of the head of state as king, which is transmitted hereditarily, however obsolete it may be, stems from the Constitution that politically defines that unfortunate Iberian Peninsula. Does the king renew his position? What had he lost? What would give him the option to separate himself from? Well, it's better not to answer that last question, or we'd still find a legion of those nostalgic for tanks entering via the Diagonal.

Others, like The WorldThey resort to polls to perpetuate the system. "Young people are enthusiastic about Leonor: 75% see her as a good queen." It's a sensational poll, because the princess hasn't had to prove anything yet. She hasn't resolved any crises. We've only seen her in staged photographs that show her as a good student, a good soldier, and speaking briefly at a few hyper-controlled events. Knowing young people's disaffection with politics, choosing the right words to get excited –With all that it suggests of unbridled revelry and celebrations in the streets – it is the last service ofThe World to try to establish a second Transition. Or, at least, to make it seem like it, for the sake of appearances.