A little over 40 days ago, Ramón Tamames, at 89, took all the spotlights for leading Vox's second motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez. Now the professor of Economics has turned that experience into a book, as EL MUNDO announced then. In it he addresses how the operation was conceived, why he accepted Santiago Abascal's proposal or who intervened to help him.
The book on the ins and outs of the initiative is entitled Spain hurts me. A motion of no confidence to revive hope. It has been published by the Almuzara publishing house and goes on sale for a price of 12.30 euros. It is the second volume that Tamames has published on motion in this time. The first dealt basically with the speech that he prepared to read in the Congress of Deputies, which he largely summarized when he delivered it, and which he entitled For a Spain for all. Our best future.
The new text is much more voluminous than that. It consists of 224 pages and in them he narrates the preparations for the motion of censure and how the relations and negotiations with Vox went, which presented him with the poster of being the first independent candidate in such an initiative, which culminated on the 21st and 22nd of March. That independent vitola produced loud clashes with those of Abascal when the former communist leader expressed in interviews radically different postulates from those of Vox.
What is not yet known is whether Tamames will tell in the book the episode of the leak of his candidate speech, which occurred a few days before the motion. That broke part of the surprise of his intervention, despite the fact that it was an old version of the text.
"This book is born from the indignation and hope of a wise man. It symbolizes the cry of rebellion of all those who, like Unamuno and Tamames, are hurt by Spain", reads the cover of the book, which is illustrated by the façade congressional.
Tamames will present the book next Thursday, May 11, a few hours before the start of the regional and municipal election campaign. The event will be at 7:00 p.m. at the Ateneo de Madrid, where the historian Emilio de Diego, from the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, will also intervene.
The editorial gives maximum importance to the story of Tamames. "Rarely, if ever, has a political event of the media dimension occurred in Spain, which was the motion of no confidence in March 2023, promoted by a proposal from the Vox parliamentary group and headed as a candidate for the presidency of the Government by Ramón Tamames", he says. "A page in the history of Spain... that will be studied for decades".
In the same way, he points out that the professor reveals "a conflictive situation that should have given way to a recovery of the values of the Democratic Transition of 1977 and the Constitution of 1978: on the path of consensus and harmony to advance towards the prosperity of whole Spain".
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