The decision of the government of Pedro Sánchez to suppress the military parade with which the patriotic lifting of the May two 1808 against the invader Napoleoncoinciding with the celebration of Community Day of Madridit is a new episode in the partisan use of the state instruments, in this case the Armed forcesto attack the president Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Now it has been the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robleswho has decided to do A Garcia Ortizshowing as submissive as the State Attorney General before Sánchez’s obsessive orders against Díaz Ayuso.
With the government’s decision to prohibit military presence in the celebration of May 2, Sánchez and Robles are breaking one of the priority objectives of the National Defense Directives Of the last two decades, including the last one, which is theirs, such as the promotion of the so -called “culture of defense.”
In the current Directive, signed by Sánchez in 2020, a key importance to the promotion of the culture of defense that appears, neither more nor less, as one of the fourteen objectives of military policy is granted again. «The promotion of consciousness and defense culture – says the directive – constitutes a priority objective, since there cannot be an effective defense without the interest and concurrence of citizens. Approaching the defense of the citizen is an essential part of the culture of National securityas an instrument to achieve a compromised society and active part of your safety ».
The directive itself approved by Sánchez places the culture of defense as the sixth among the sixteen lines of government action, which must establish “determined support for the work of the Ministry of Defense for the Promotion of Culture and Defense awarenesswithin the framework of the national security culture ».
Do not forget that the Robles Department grants the Defense Awards and the Marqués de Santa Cruz Award from Marcenadowhich recognize people and entities for their special contribution to the dissemination of the culture of defense.
So we are aviated, with a government that breaches its own National Defense Directive, as they have done in this case with one of their priority objectives. Because you have to be very blind, and we already know what sectarianism can blind Sánchez and its ministers, in addition to cloudying the understanding, to despise what the celebration of May two means to reinforce the links between our armies and citizens.
If there is an ephemeris in the history of Spain in which the union of the people with their men and women of arms is more meaning, it is precisely the one that commemorates the heroic day portrayed by Francisco de Goya in The burden of mamelucosoccurred in the same door of the sun where the parade takes place, when military and countrymen originating from different places in Spain took into the streets of Madrid to fight shoulder with shoulder against the French invader.
Only the memory of the captains Daoiz and Velardetogether with the Lieutenant Ruizit is worth all the budget dedicated by Minister Robles to the promotion of the culture of defense multiplied by a thousand. The decision of these military heroics to open the Artillery Park of Monteleón to the civilians, whom they armed to combat together Napoleonic troops in a thousand battles, is the largest example of the objectives and performances pursued by the current National Defense Directive, and with much more reason with which today it is falling.
That deed of a handful of military next to women and men of the people of Madrid has always raised as a maximum example of the will of an entire people to defend their independence, as is the case today with Ukraine. Even in the times of the Fratricida Spain of 1936the two sides only They coincided In a matter, in addition to persecuting deserters and fugitives of rows with equal viciousness: in the memory of the deed of May two as a symbol and acicate for their respective causes.
As Díaz Ayuso himself recalled on the social network X, even under the newly constituted government of the Popular front It was held in Madrid with a military presence on May 2 in 1936, just two and a half months before the coup occurred that would trigger the Civil war.
“Sectarism devours themselves,” said the president of the community, aiming at the contradiction of those who continue to continue that past as a top of political idealization, except when they seem inconvenient for the purposes they pursue in the present. That in he Frank year Sanchez is amending the Government of the Popular Front canceling the military presence in the celebration of May 2 is much more than poetry: it is an infinite clumsiness.
Sanchez is still determined to digs trenches to put Siege to Madrid Already Madrid in order to harm their president, against which he cannot at the polls, even destroying a patriotic commemoration in which for more than two centuries the Spaniards have recognized each other, beyond their differences of all kinds, as participants in a common lot for which it is worth even giving life.
In the celebration of May 2, all The nationas was when the people of Madrid, next to their military, decided to sell their freedom in front of the foreign occupant in 1808. Who only by bilious sectarianism insists on ending this event, is also starting with rage one of the most emotional pages of our shared history.
The mendaz excuse of Minister Robles, which says that the celebration is a “civil” act in which the military presence does not fit, is based on a supine ignorance of the etymological meaning of the term, which comes from civiscitizen, being civic synonym for patrioticaccording to the SAR. Nothing that is patriotic can be alien to the men and women of arms that serve their homeland.
So Sánchez, worthy Émulo de Pepe Bottle In the growing phobia of Spaniards of all condition, loading as a mameluco of Puigdemont and Otegi Against the presence of the Armed Forces in a patriotic act in Madrid, with free and equal citizens who identify in a heroic, foundational past for the nation, and pay their men and women of arms the tribute of those who recognize them as part of themselves in the will to continue staying united.
This is how the old blood brothers After the years, with the conviction that it is their debt with those who fell that allows them to be alive. The same goes for the nation, continued and renewed with the delivery and sacrifice of so many servers who knew how to fulfill their duty conscientiously, in all fields and orders.
May 2 has been for Madrid for decades a very special occasion to express that Recognition to our Armed Forces and our security forces and bodies.
That Margarita Robles himself refuses to promote this recognition shows her defense inculture almost without lagoons, improper of the position she holds. Hopefully the minister amends herself and drew PAIPORTA GALGO (Díaz Ayuso Dixit) To fail to comply, on the occasion of the celebration of May 2 in Madrid, a priority objective of the National Defense Directive that he signed, as is the fraternity between the Armed Forces and the people from which they come and to which they serve.
