The truth is that now I don’t remember exactly if I came to utter expressions like “bump the rudder” or similar ones. A lot of time has passed, and from this island of Nurai, I feel all that is very far away. It is true that I thought that the scenario for which Suárez was largely responsible had to be resolved, and that he would surely express it like this in front of the people with whom he was discussing the situation. But from that to affirming, as some unfortunates have done, that I was the ideologue of 23-F there is an abyss. Abyss that I do not intend to jump. I don’t have that charge on my conscience. And, furthermore, it must be recognized that 23-F was an effective vaccine. Never again was it heard “saber rattling” as El País liked to call rumors of a coup d’état.
They have given a lot of thought to a phrase that I said to Anna Balletbó, the socialist deputy who was let out by the civil guards who had entered Congress because she was pregnant, the nerds. I alluded to someone getting nervous and rushing. And from that they deduce that I was at the end of the street from the coup. Well, of course he knew that something was being prepared, but just like anyone who was minimally informed knew. The comment was the first thing that came to mind. But there are clever intellectuals who find meanings that only they see in any phrase that comes to mind. Of course there were people who were nervous. Many of us had been nervous for quite some time. But it was not for less, given the situation in the country.
And the episode of the Batasunos singing the Eusko Gudariak in the Guernica Assembly House interrupting my speech was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Of course I had to express that this could not be tolerated. And to all this was added the resignation of Suárez, which brought a feeling of powerlessness that surely accelerated the coup plans under way.
2023-08-15 04:01:12
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