Memorias heterodoxas

To read José Manuel García-Margallo is to become aware and understand from within many of the most decisive political events in the recent history of Spain. The crucial years of the Transition, the power struggles until the founding of the Popular Party, the management of the economic crisis and the Catalan separatist convulsion, the internal discrepancies in the governments of which he was a part or the succession of Mariano Rajoy at the head of the Popular Party are some milestones of a political and vital journey imbued with its characteristic heterodox style. As a young deputy elected by the UCD in the elections to the Constituent Cortes of 1977; MEP for seventeen years (1994-2011); Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation during the Rajoy governments (2011-2016); and again as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 he has been a witness and protagonist of the most important national and international issues of the last forty years, always with a truly unique perseverance in favor of common Spanish and European interests. His memories, full of anecdotes and confidences, testify to a passion for public service that José Manuel García-Margallo neither wants nor can hide. With a critical and seasoned tone, sometimes scathing, but always frank, he exposes his iron commitment to an exciting and inclusive idea of ??Spain, to the defense of rights and freedoms, of multilateralism, of a federal and integrated conception of Europe and with the vindication of the political center as a meeting point for reformism and coexistence between different. To read José Manuel García-Margallo is to become aware and understand from within many of the most decisive political events in the recent history of Spain. His memories, full of anecdotes and confidences, testify to a passion for public service that he neither wants nor can hide.