Enrique Miguel Sánchez Motos
Senior civil servant
What’s first, the egg or the chicken? If the state does not exist, there is no place for either Statemanship or State Pacts. But that is not the case, Spain exists. It is a State. When did it become one? History tells us that the Romans conquered a peninsula they called Hispania. Later came the Visigothic barbarians, vandals and Alans who in turn conquered the Roman Hispania. Then the Arabs arrived and conquered the peninsula. Then, the Hispanic Christians reconquered the territory. The marriage of Isabel and Fernando, monarchs of the two great kingdoms of peninsular Spain, Castile and Aragon, gave rise to Spanish peninsular unity, which was completed in 1492 with the conquest of Granada, the last Hispanic Muslim kingdom and, in 1512, with the integration of almost the entire kingdom of Navarre.
Portugal continued as a separate kingdom from Spain, except for the 60 years (1580-1640) in which the union of both countries took place. Spain was projected in America through the Viceroyalty of Nueva España (Mexico, much of the United States, Central America, Asia and Oceania) and the Viceroyalty of Peru which, in addition to Peru, included Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama, all territories that were part of Spain, for 330 years, until they became independent.
The result of all this was the Hispanic world, which has a common language and culture, as well as other languages and cultures that continue to exist, fused into a great racial mestizaje, very different from the extermination of the Indians that occurred in English America.
Now, faced with the confused political situation in which our acting president has plunged our country, saying one thing one day and another the next, one may ask oneself: what is his vision of the State? Is he going to maintain the principle of the “indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation” or is that also negotiable? What is the position of the other main parties, PP, Vox and Podemos? It is curious that a former leader of Ciudadanos is promoting a think tank at ESADE to promote state pacts and major agreements. Why didn’t he create it within his own party?
Will there be new general elections? Probably not, because for the pro-independence parties the best thing, today, is a government of Sánchez with Iglesias inside. They will abstain when necessary. Pacts or state agreements? They are always convenient, particularly in terms of pensions, market unity, education and others. But in essence they are going to be impossible in the face of independence. What are the important state pacts? Many, but the only possible route is that of Article 150.3, the laws harmonising the regulatory provisions of the autonomous regions, when the general interest so requires. And this, participants of the “think tank” group, will not have the support of the current socialist party dominated by Sanchez. Have it as a postulate and do not waste time and, above all, do not make Spanish citizens lose it.
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