Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo and Infobae: "It would be dramatic for Kirchnerism to win again in Argentina"

(From Madrid) Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo (CAT, 45) He speaks and does things like Argentina, but he is not Argentinian. It's his mother, Patricia Peralta Ramos, who was married to the painter Rómulo Macció and had with him a daughter, Tristana, whom he met until one day in Buenos Aires businessmen Juan Illán Alvarez de Toledo and the Marquis of Casa Fuerte and pursued him.

That's why Cayetana was born in Madrid and spent her early childhood in London, althoughBetween 7 and 17 years old, he lived in Buenos AiresThis is why here in Spain we say "porteña", which caused some problems when she applied to Barcelona as a candidate for the post of MP of the PP.

"The nationalists reacted to the fact that I was not Catalan, but less because of Argentina." As a journalist, I went to cover on October 1, 2017 the election of the referendum in San Julián de Ramis, where I had to vote (Carlos) Puigdemont, and They shouted: "Go to Madrid" until Someone says: "No, it's Argentina, daughter of a whore and a spanish." When you separate xenophobia, you do it anyway, "he is reminded Saturday night chatting with Infobae in a Barcelona boutique hotel in the district of Sarrià, once the campaign is over.

Yes, Cayetana, as well as a BA and PhD from the University of Oxford, have devoted many years to journalism, where she headed the newspaper's opinion section. The world in the era of the mythical Pedro J. Ramírez. "At one point in time and intense in Spain, when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was in post, I thought I should badume a more direct responsibility than I had as a journalist and that I joined the PP, where I have been twice legislator. Pedro J. m said you're crazy, Cayetana, how are you going to give up journalism, do not you see that journalism is a policy without responsibility And what are you going to do, brothel? But at that moment, I felt that I had to make politics ", a place he left because of differences with Mariano Rajoy's positions on the Catalan crisis.

It was at this point that he returned to journalism. He was in Cucuta, the Colombian city near the border with Venezuela, covering what appeared to be the biggest income of humanitarian aid for the bridges that unite the two countries. "I am very attached to the Venezuelan process, I have links with all the leaders of the opposition to tyranny, especially with Leopoldo López, I was in Caracas, where I was wrote several stories, then I wrote with humanitarian aid that could not be done because I had started shooting and badaults on the other side, showing the macabre disinterest of the Chavez regime for the situation of their compatriots, "he said.

She returned bitter in Madrid and received a call from Pablo Casado. "He invited me to have a coffee and he told me that I was going to hunt, that he would like me to come to Barcelona." It seemed to me that it made sense, both politically and personally, because I have been involved for many years in Catalonia with nationalism, for which I formed the Free and Free platform. Equal, intellectuals and journalists from all political backgrounds, we realized the most important mobilization, that of October 2017, to which Mario Vargas Llosa was the speaker ".

For Cayetana, "the unlawful badault on the Spanish Constitutional State failed on 1 October when the Civil Guard and the National Police arrested him. On October 3, the King delivered a very important, comparable, or even more important speech than the one his father gave in 23F, because the challenge was more complex because it was run by an autonomous government, endorsed by the media. in the street, a real institutional gap and a pacifist alibi. It's something much more dangerous than gentlemen coming out with a tank and a gun. The 23F hit stopped after a few hours. On the contrary, this shot was a blow, as Alfonso Guerra said, in slow motion. And he is postmodern, in the sense that he possesses the attributes of the pacifist alibi. "

However, he believes that the danger still exists. Hispanic-Argentinean media are convinced that "Now they are looking for a semi-illegal way to reach the same goals, going through the back door. And this back door is called Pedro Sánchez ".

Infobae I wanted to know if this danger was really running, because the majority of the PSOE electorate was against the independence movement and, in campaign, the head of government sought to position themselves in the center, fleeing the photos taken with the Independence to accept the motion of censure with which he took Rajoy de La Moncloa.

For Cayetana, there is no doubt: "If he wins, his intention is to reach an agreement with the movement for independence, which will allow him to stay in power, which interests him exclusively." He is the only president who was inaugurated by a vote. censorship and appealed to the wishes of a justice fugitive who organized a coup like Puigdemont, with which he could not have done otherwise, who outlawed the fact that Mr. Sánchez was president of the government and all the destructive political forces that are working to break the constitutional system born in 1978. Sanchez has played games of dissimulation in the countryside, deception, alleged equidistance, but he is the candidate of the forces of the coup d'etat and at the same time his hostage. true I am convinced that Spain is in danger if Pedro Sánchez wins the government"

Relaxed after several intense weeks, where she had gone from a reputed journalist to a protagonist of the Spanish political scene in uncertain times, Cayetana wanted to take gin and tonicbut a friend who helps him says it's better to have a sugar-free soda and she agrees, docile.

For the first time, she is forced to walk with care in Barcelona, ​​a city she knew well, because she has been married since 2001 to a Catalan businessman, Joaquin Güell, grandson of Gaudí's boss, with whom he divorced a year ago.. He had two awake and empathic daughters with him, present while their mother chats with a medium they know from Argentina, as they play and have fun in the adjoining rooms, guarded by their grandmother, Patricia. "We loved the fact that she decides to be a candidate, but we are a little sorry," said one of them.

A few days ago, it was the detention that had allowed Cayetana to enter the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he was planning to hold a conference on populism and Catalanism, alongside the candidate of Mayor Manuel Valls, former French Minister. "Outside Fascist Universities", a group of 200 students who shouted "facha", among other insults: the PP activists, however, defended it and shouted at" freedom, freedom, "they laid out a corridor through which the candidate could enter, with the support of their guardians.

Today, Election Day, Cayetana visited the main polling centers. They did not insult her anymore, because her figure grew with each succulent she received. However, she also could not walk quietly, as countless voters had come to ask her selfies and tell her about the elections and the future of Spain.

To the constitutionalists, he told them to stop being afraidthat they will no longer be persecuted and will not be subjected to self-censorship because they want to continue to be Spain. "The good side of what happened on October 1 is that Catalonia has appeared helpless, cosmopolitan, tolerant, who wants to live with each other, who is delighted to be part of Europe. , where rule of law and diversity reign, "he explained.

To the separatists, many approached, asked them "to go and really think about what they want to do with Catalonia, to think if they are not a reactionary force, xenophobic, who do not want to live with diversity, to think if they are ready to accept the tear that will liquidate Spain ".

Because she is like that, the Marquise de Casa Fuerte one year after the death of her father, companion of Máxima Zorreguieta in the Northern Lands, reigns today in Holland, the doctorate at Oxford, the tertuliana in the COPE chain, while she was a journalist, one of the first signatories of the constitutionalist manifesto who played a key role in the failure of the movement led by Puigdemot, who continues to visit Argentina at least once a year.

By the way, Infobae He could not help asking questions about the situation in Argentina. It did not take him a minute to launch his thrust: "The return of Kirchner's populism would be dramatic".