Amnesty with subsequent condition
Such is the uneasiness aroused by the potential amnesty, that I prefer to think that it will not be for so much or rather, that it would not be for so much if those who negotiate this matter in the name of the socialist party are guided by the prudence recommended by Don Mendo in the famous comedy of Muñoz Seca, to those who are getting ready to participate in games of cards -but that could be applied metaphorically to any negotiation- to warn of the risk of extreme the bet, because if “not arriving gives pain”, “woe to you if you pass! if you pass it is worse!” And the crux of the matter, in my view, is not in amnesty, but in amnesty. For amnesty has been so recurrent in our history that we should not be surprised that it now intends to turn to it, nor should its healing power be relied upon much. Salvador de Madariaga wrote that Spain is the country of amnesties and it is enough to enumerate the years in which these were granted, from the beginning of our constitutionalism, to justify his opinion: 1837, 1840, 1846, 1854, 1856, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1873, […]
Profesor Titular Honorífico de Derecho Constitucional de la
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, de la que ha sido Vicerrector de
Cultura y Comunicación.
Ha desempeñado distintos cargos en el Ministerio de Cultura entre
1984 y 1989 (Secretario General Técnico, Director General de
Bellas Artes y Archivos y Subsecretario). Entre 1992 y 2009, ha
ejercido distintas responsabilidades en el Grupo Prisa.