España sentenciada

The coup insurrection, the rebellion of the Catalan separatists, with the collaboration of the defenders of that political impossible called 'nation of nations', seriously threaten the continuity of Spain as a democratic state. This is the starting point of this book. With great rigor, amenity and literary agility, the author reviews the most important judicial decisions of the last four decades that have opened the spaces of impunity and confusion that allowed the attempt to break the democratic order in October 2017. A Starting from "a magnificent forensic examination of the Supreme Court's ruling on the process", "with incisive reasoning and the exact questions, puts your honorable Members on the ropes", Juan Pablo Cardenal tells us. And he adds: "The feeling of anger at so much immorality floods the reading of this book, from the first page to the last." In this essay, which we can classify as both a historical chronicle and a political theory, the reader will find the clearest and most argued answer to the question that many Spaniards ask ourselves every day: how did we get here? Only by being fully aware of what happened, and of the very important role that the judiciary has played in this process, can we face our immediate future with determination and courage. As the author concludes, "it is only in our hands to prevent one defeat after another from leading us to the final surrender." Because "we have reached a decisive moment where the siren songs of the equidistant, federalists, confederalists or plurinationalists of all kinds will no longer be worth anything; because the dilemma will not be how to make or not a constitutional fix for the 'fit' (of bobbins) of Catalonia in Spain, but to accept or not the very disappearance of Spain as a single and integrated democratic Nation and State ". It is, as the foreword Juan Pablo Cardenal says, "a painful but essential book."