Sunday, January 23, 2021
José Saramago said that he begins with oblivion and ends in indifference.On this I read in a book, written by Giulio Andreotti, that old fox of Italian politics say that a judicial process can be more subtle than a murder.
I was always struck by this democristian personality, seven times prime minister and more than twenty occasions Minister of Finance, Treasury, Defense, Industry or Foreign Affairs as well as prosecuted for an unclear accusation of connection with the mafia.The last time I saw him, in Athens, in a Congress of European Christian democracy, he followed the debates carefully, took notes and intervened.After knocking us on an amendment about the regionalization of Europe, I went to him and told him about the 1946 Rome meeting where the PNV had been invited and showed our contradiction courtly for his vote.He looked at me with his eyes scarled, breathed and excused."I remember that 1946 meeting that was fundamental, but I did not think unfortunately when you vote, which saved the principles of the DC, but thought about the North League".The fact is not an obstacle to highlight his figure that Italy presided in an almost total way for four decades.Retired from the first line and as a life senator I was lucky to see him in meetings of the Interparliamentary Union and in others of European sign.With his growing hump, one could not fail to recognize that such personality was an out of series when zurcir agreements.Machiavelli would have chosen it as a portrait of another prince.
He wrote a book "De Prima Re Publicica" on the history of the Italian Republic, from the referendum on the monarchy in 1946 to the present day.And it is that in 1946, only the PNV and a Swiss party went to the Congress of the nascent DCI in Rome after the war where the figure of the Europeanist Alcide of Gasperi emerged, being Andreotti his secretary his secretary.And it was also on that occasion in which the pressures of the Francoist Embassy in Rome and Elex Deputy Alavés Francisco Javier de Landaburu did not triumph was the most important guest of that party that began a Government Sung.The book is very interesting.
"My book," says Andreotti, "translates a personal concern for the fact that many of the new politicians know little or nothing we did in the past.There is a tendency to cancel everything that means "old system" or "old regime", which allows today's politicians to say "we are great" and "our predecessors did nothing more than barbarities".
“Italy has a number of problems precisely because it has grown rapidprogress on a stronger moral basis.I consider that Pier Paolo Pasolini's criticism of the DC, accusing us of materialists, and reminding us that "non in just pane vivit homo", was valid.That deserved a reflection that we did not do then because we considered it a political attack ”.
“I do not conceive of power as a public office, as a political mandate.I understand power in terms of influence on public opinion.Indro Montanelli, for example, had more power than a minister.Under this perspective, I think that power does not wear out if you know how to communicate with people.Naturally, if power is contemplated as an exercise of a mandate, as a public office, it can wear even internally.That said it seems to me that a certain political professionalism always counts, because today we are attending precisely a great lack of preparation for public life and even the pleasure of doing politics ”.
I would continue to transcribe thoughts of a full -time politician who surely over time will have due recognition.With the old fox he could not even the peleteria that the brawls of his country took after the sinking of the wall and the end of the block policy, nor the African hatred towards an intelligent guy with the clear ideas I have remembered seeingThe lousy show of a Boris Johnson, successful politic.These days we were given one of the guidelines that he has always used to float in all his crises, his cynical and magical formula that is none other than "collective dismemberment".The guy knows that people forget everything, has a fish memory and in times of crisis the lack of seriousness and rigor is replaced by bread and circus, the falling in love with superficiality, the infantilization of politics, theManipulation of reality, exaggeration and above all the lack of historical training of the political class.Above all this.Although we are told to be heard outside, when it is not heard inside.Lack of country culture and feeling of the humanist party.
On Saturday, January 15, Félix Ormazabal died in his ARAIA Natal.Don Eduardo, the parish priest of San Pedro, in his felt homily highlighted from him the two loves of his life, in addition to his family.Araia and the Basque people with their own identity.Social cure very committed in its early years, the rural world was its passion and also delivered to have been an agriculture advisor and general deputy of Araba.In his time, Artium and the Cathedral project were born, among a thousand activities and programs.It was also a parliamentarian where I met him in 1980.He was also president of Araba Buru Batzar.Listening to the priest I reminded the presidents of the Alava executives of the EAJ-PNV since 1976.Mikel Estabillo, dead in fatal accident, José Mari Gerenabarrena, tireless visitor of all peoples and with a great historical culture, Xabier Agirre, resistant with Joseba Azkarraga, Patxi Ormazabal and Mikel Estabillo under the splint of Luis Mari Sánchez Iñigo, also recentlydeceased.All these presidents are no longer with us and it gives me that without having left anything written and without anyone taking the job of telling it truth of these almost fifty years or saying how it was Araba in 1975 and how it is now.A job almost from scratch, to stand up, from the institutional and democratic point of view, the current reality.We are an Ágrafo town and from there comes to us that the libraries are full of titles with manipulated stories.If a resistance of our institutions is added to this, to which four hard begins, because they are not the promoters of that recovery to edit the silenced history, the result is not very flattering.
I would encourage kids to read and be interested in history in order to deliver a greater perspective of things.The keys to politics would be better understood and why we have lasted so much surpassing groups that base their attractiveness and their possibilities on the "collective dismember" of Johnson, who care about ignoring, misrepresenting, silencing or manipulating what is done byOrmazabal type ants, Xabier Agirre, Sánchez Iñigo, Periko Arrizabalaga based on the ignorance of the history of some generations to which no one has taught what really happened in Europe, in the Spanish state, in Euzkadiy in Araba in these fundamental decades.
Julio Caro Baroja said that “to liquidate the peoples it begins to strip them of their memory, their culture and history are destroyed and someone writes them books, gives them another culture and invents another story… Then the people begin to slowly forget whatwhat is and what it was ».But not only said it.Václav Havel insisted that "without memory there is no historical continuity and thus it is not possible to maintain an identity".
Some of this I think is happening to us if we continue to believe that these are battalions of the Grandfather Cebollet.As the old fox wisely said, "not only of bread lives man".