Albert Rivera against Spanish nationalism (no joke)

MadridFrom the start, it is clear that the right is not united to defeat Pedro Sánchez. At the talk called by the International Foundation for Freedom, chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, the former leader of Cs Albert Rivera arrives late. Afterwards, he will have the detail of staying to chat and take photos with the young people who have come to listen to him, together with the former president of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre (PP) and the former spokesperson for Vox in Congress Iván Espinosa de los Monteros. The moderator of the event, a young admirer of Javier Milei born in Rosario who praises his fellow citizen Leo Messi and describes Che Guevara as a "murderer", warns that the event will last an hour because Real Madrid is playing afterwards. Seeing how, fleetingly, Espinosa de los Monteros leaves the space as soon as the talk ends, it is clear who has set these conditions.

The football metaphor will be used by the speakers to reflect the problems that the right has in beating Sánchez. "Let's stop scoring own goals!" complains the former leader of the extreme right, who has the theory that the right does not govern because it has not created an "exciting" project nor explained the "truth" to society. He takes up Aguirre's glove, who previously explains that the "truth" of the Civil War is not that "fascist generals and extremist priests carried out a coup against the idyllic Second Republic." On the other hand, Aguirre and Espinosa de los Monteros will not agree on the difference in votes between the government and the right. Frankenstein and the PP, Vox and Unión del Pueblo Navarro in the last elections. The former president of Madrid says that there were 1.2 million in total, but the former Vox deputy emphasizes that there were 70,000 if we take into account how the transfer in seats in the provinces would have changed. Precisely the right is penalized by its fragmentation and, despite the fact that the three speakers agree on the need to create an "alternative", Espinosa de los Monteros already anticipates that "PP and Vox will not understand each other".

So, while it is not time to leave for the Santiago Bernabéu, there are a few minutes left to criticize Sánchez for the fact of eliminating the counterweights of the democratic system, they say, and Rivera remembers the "Who does the Prosecutor's Office depend on? Well, that's it.". The former leader of Cs claims that he does not want a centre-right government to do the same as Sánchez and, suddenly, a murmur among the public. "Now, and who is the handsome one who will change that?", says a lady, who proposes "fumigating" the leader of the PSOE to dethrone him from Es Mile. identity advocated by the European extreme right. Rivera jumps: "I believe in the global world and multilateral institutions; I do not want the world of identity and nations." They do not agree and Espinosa concludes with one: "I also believe in Real Madrid."