Rajoy in evidence
The technique says that when not know the answer the best you can do is start making rhetorical questions to try to disguise or otherwise dismantling the arguments may end up turning into a real trap and cause their own shortcomings in evidence. This is what happened yesterday Mariano Rajoy before the microphones of Onda Cero when, having qualified as "nonsense" that the 27-S Catalans obliged to give up their status as Spanish and European journalist Carlos Alsina was limited to remind legislation, indicating to him that even in a scenario of a Catalan independence do not want it in any case lose Spanish nationality. In particular, Article 11.2 of the Constitution states: "No person of Spanish origin may be deprived of their nationality." The current tenant of La Moncloa tried displaces the opposite with a series of questions that ended showing the weakness of his arguments: "Oh, I do not know! That is, why not lose? And not European? "The reporter talked to him, according to current rules, if a citizen born abroad live in Spain, does not lose citizenship if expresses its willingness to preserve it. "Well ... And Europe?" Rajoy insisted, with a tone of voice more hesitant this time. I ended up knocking Alsina: "The European Spanish because they have it."
Based on this ruling, Rajoy was already aware that in a jiffy he had dismantled his theory about the possible loss of the Spanish and European identity, one of the key messages of the campaign of the PP-27 and S Yesterday wanted relaunched during the interviewers on the horizon of an independent Catalonia, whether by way of unilateral declaration or negotiated.
At that time, there was a presidential silence, followed by an initial hesitation even starting a reflection with which he tried to cut a debate that he found uncomfortable: "I think we are in a disquisition that leads nowhere. What we are doing is forcing people to choose whether to be Catalan or Spanish. "
In the final 27-S, the "do not know" Rajoy before the interviewer's observation about the fact that the Catalans would not lose Spanish nationality served as the executive Catalan ammunition to emphasize that the his speech yesterday, the Spanish president had shattered alarmist theories about uprooting suffered by Spaniards who did not want to stop being so. Vice President Snow Munté then put in relief the "newsprint" who had made the leader of the PP even stressing: "We knew that unknown reality Catalan, but now everyone has seen that also know the contents of the Spanish Constitution in what refers to nationality. "For mounting, the credibility of the president of the Spanish PP has been damaged, and especially" has highlighted that there is a campaign to adulterate reality and scary. "
During his speech, Rajoy also released a message to the forces that defend it, insisting that while he is in favor of "rule" is left to govern most voted-a speech given to the repeats December's elections, which assumes that the PP will lose most absolutely, in the case of Catalonia intends to make an "exception." That is, if you do not get together for most Yes, promoted an alternative to bar the way to independence. In any case, in the midst of the debate that has opened in Catalonia on whether the majority of seats should be accompanied by a majority vote to materialize break, Rajoy ruled that neither one nor the other it has legitimacy to "transgress the law."
Later, he said he looks "healthy" that becomes a debate between Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo and Oriol Junqueras about the future of Catalonia to the EU, suggesting that, contrary to what the minister said that had previously consulted, he knew nothing and it was a decision of the head of the PP campaign. At this point, the reporter suggested that he have a face to face with Artur Mas, Rajoy did not accept that possibility. "You are the campaign manager of my party," she blurted.
At another point, Rajoy was again involved with the style phrases "Catalans do things ..." or "there are many more Catalan than independence", with respect to N-9, underlining in this occasion, that "Catalonia has a history that no other, and others have a history that Catalonia has," a phrase which sought to illustrate the diversity of Spain.