Santiago Abascal confirms on social networks that he has met with him and that they agree that the state of affairs in Spain “requires deep reflection” Vox gives the economist Ramón Tamames to be the candidate for his movement of censure in opposition to Pedro Sánchez 33 years in the past he left energetic politics , in one in every of his final interviews he assured that “Vox was self-regulating”
After Santiago Carrillo and Dolores Ibarruri ‘La Pasionaria’, Ramón Tamames was one of many best-known leaders of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) throughout the Transition. He is now negotiating with Vox to be the candidate for a doable vote of no confidence in Pedro Sánchez.
The ideological evolution of the 89-year-old economist of acknowledged status is public. From Carrillo’s PCE he ended up within the ranks of the CDS (Democratic and Social Center) based by Adolfo Suárez, after passing by means of Izquierda Unida, a formation that he helped type and through which he solely spent a 12 months.
Now he’s in talks with Vox, to guide the movement of censure in opposition to Pedro Sánchez, as Santiago Abascal himself has revealed on social networks.
This morning I met with Ramón Tamames. It’s not the primary time.
We agree that the state of affairs in Spain requires deep reflection by the representatives of nationwide sovereignty.
– Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 (@Santi_ABASCAL) February 1, 2023
From very left to very proper. That has been his journey. Ramón Tamames (Madrid, 1933) was one of many youth leaders of the anti-Franco regime on account of the college riots of 1956. That 12 months he was arrested together with different college students similar to Javier Pradera or Fernando Sánchez Dragó as chargeable for the mobilizations in opposition to the regime that ended with a lifeless younger Falangist.
Those mobilizations of 1956 have been the seed of the later democratic Transition. Many of the detainees belonged to the households of the victors of the Civil War. “When the police observe of our arrests appeared within the press, it was hanging that our names have been preceded by a ‘don’, a therapy that was not normally utilized to different opponents detained by the regime,” he recalled years later.
Author of “El Tamames” and “Villacís” by Tierno Galván in Madrid
Tamames turned a professor on the Faculty of Economics first in Malaga after which on the Autonomous University of Madrid. He was the writer of probably the most learn and feared manuals by Economics college students. Entitled ‘Economic Structure of Spain’, higher generally known as ‘El Tamames’. During the Transition, Tamames was one of many best-known figures of the Spanish Communist Party.
Ramón Tamames and Enrique Tierno Galván in 1979. Madrid Archive
The PCE introduced him as a candidate for mayor of Madrid in 1979. The settlement between the socialists and communists allowed the left to return to manipulate the city halls for the primary time because the Second Republic. In Madrid, Enrique Tierno Galván turned mayor and Tamames was his quantity two.
His flip to the best and his flirtation with Vox
Awarded a number of prizes, together with the National Prize for Economy and Environment in 2003. Tamames is the writer of a number of books, the final one on Hernán Cortés known as “La mitad del mundo que fue de España. A real story, nearly unbelievable.” A ebook that curiously has a preface by Josep Borrel, the present head of European diplomacy.
“Vox is a constitutional social gathering, one thing that most of the events that help the federal government will not be, which come from terrorist violence” (Ramón Tamames, in an interview with El Mundo in May 2022)
In his final interviews within the promotion of the ebook, final spring he didn’t hesitate to return out in protection of Vox. “Vox is a constitutional social gathering, one thing that most of the events that help the federal government will not be, that come from terrorist violence, which are exterior the system. Vox is inside the system. Doesn’t it like autonomies? Take it! And it’s true that the autonomies have to be higher coordinated. Vox is self-regulating,” he mentioned in an interview with El Mundo.
In it, he additionally admitted that he knew Iván Espinosa de los Monteros and Santiago Abascal, whom he praised for his stage within the arduous years of the PP in Esukadi. “Neither do these of the PP need to reject him a lot, if he has been with them for a very long time on the head of the Basque Country at a really arduous time for everybody. We may also need to thank him for that point,” he mirrored in that interview.
His relationship with the Dominguín-Bosé household
Ramón Tamames’s father was a health care provider. Republican and “outstanding surgeon”, Manuel Tamames, as ABC described him, was the non-public physician of the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, the daddy of Miguel Bosé. It was the time of his dalliances with Ava Gadner. The friendship between the physician and the bullfighter was such that the daddy of Ramón Tamames was the baptismal godfather of his daughter Lucía Dominguín Bosé.
It is even mentioned that their relationship was so shut that when Manolete suffered the blow that may result in his dying, he would mingle with Gitanillo de Triana and Luis Miguel Dominguín, who known as Dr. Tamames to seem instantly in Linares. But he failed to save lots of him.