My father combated his particular unwanted loneliness—the desire for his battles to be heard over and over again—by going to the bar. Every morning he got together with other retirees and solved the world, making the difficult easy. Always knowing what to do, aware that they had no power or possibility to get their hands on it except for coffee and churros. The gathering, he called it, giving it the intellectual and literary air that those meetings did not have.
Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra did something like this this Thursday in the interview that Susanna Griso conducted with them in Public mirror. The label itself was already a declaration of intentions: “First joint interview with the important political tandem.” That determining factor when referring to them, “the tandem”, and the impossibility of there being others.
González and Guerra, that double G much more important than the Gucci logo, are very proud of themselves. They have many things to say. All important, all accurate. The director splits the screen and their faces appear, one in Seville and the other in San Sebastián de los Reyes, but this, more than a fight, is a declaration of love. I hope their partners look at them like González does at Guerra. I hope that there is communion in what they think. They do not like Pedro Sánchez and many of the decisions that that Government has made. In case any of you haven’t heard yet.
Guerra, the one whom Julia Otero once defined as “sensitive, although misogynistic,” heads almost all of his answers with “well, let’s see,” as if he were a frustrated text editor. Although it will always be better that it doesn’t make you ugly if you go to the hairdresser too much, as he once pointed out while looking at Yolanda Díaz.
“I already said that there was going to be a coup d’état here,” says one. “I made the first report on the technological revolution and globalization,” explains the other. It has been just over an hour in which important topics have been discussed, such as financing, housing and immigration. They know what to do and, best of all, they think it’s not that complicated either. At 10:39 Guerra looks at the clock, the obvious sign that he is running out of time. Griso asks them about the king’s audios. And that’s where they sprout. “There are already programs that are dedicated to saving the world. I don’t think it’s typical of a program like this,” says Guerra. “It’s not serious,” says González, he doesn’t want to feed “gossip.” Gonzalez. War. Grumpy.
