The other day, a lifelong PP voter (and when I say lifelong, I mean the party's entire life, since 1977, when the party founded by six former Franco ministers was called AP and won 100,000 votes and one deputy in Catalonia) told me: "When I was young, Felipe was me, I was young. I agree 100%." Well, there's no other question, Your Honor.
In reality, González had them all quite fooled: he raised his fist but disassociated the PSOE from Marxism; he said "NATO, no from the start" and ended up asking for a yes vote; and he escorted his Interior Minister and his Secretary of State for Security, convicted of kidnapping and embezzlement in a case of state terrorism, to the prison door. His favorite slogan was "For change." For change, his.
With this track record, it's no surprise that González has now said of the amnesty that "the rapporteur [of the Constitutional Court] who made this garbage doesn't know what it's about." It's true that Sánchez (nor Isla) didn't want the amnesty, but then the election results came in, and they had to make "a virtue out of necessity." And this is one thing (they're called democratic majorities), and another is to consider, as González does, that the amnesty is an act of "political corruption."
Felipe has also said he doesn't plan to vote for this PSOE. In this, he agrees with those two officials of his convicted by the GAL, Barrionuevo and Vera, who have signed a manifesto against Sánchez accusing him of "serious institutional degradation" and asking him to fold to "restore the honor of the party." He must have some guts, having worked for the GAL, to come out and give lessons in honor and institutional degradation.
