Max Pearson
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It was a very important day because the appointment, the vote of a new prime minister is always a very important thing. And in particular when our democratic institutions were still very weak. Joaquin Almunia was a member of the Socialist Party. He was just 32 and had been an MP for two years.
Sitten olin puolustuksen toisella puolella. Sitten puolustuksen toisella puolella. Sitten puolustuksen toisella puolella. Sitten puolustuksen toisella puolella.
Ja yhden minuutin yksi siviilisjÀrjestö nÀytti siviilisjÀrjestöön.
Ja me tunnistuimme, ettÀ Tejero oli hyvin tunnistunut puhistus, joka oli arvostettu kaksi vuotta ennen. HÀn oli hyvin tunnistunut sivuiltaan oikeudenmuutoksen osaaminen. Ja me tunnistuimme,
ettÀ tÀmÀ oli yrittÀjÀ pysyÀ lopettamaan demokratian prosessin. Ja aloitimme heti miettimÀÀn, mikÀ olisi lopputulos tai lopputulos tÀstÀ erittÀin erityistÀ yrittÀjyydestÀ demokratiaan.
Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero had planned a putsch or coup two years earlier to reverse Spain's transition to democracy. But the plan had been discovered and Tejero was jailed for seven months. For Tejero and his sympathizers, democracy meant disunity and disintegration. They saw the killing of more than a hundred people by Basque separatist group ETA as evidence that the system wasn't working.
Now the distinctive looking man with the thick black moustache was back with 200 members of the civil guard for a second attempt at a coup. He went up to the speaker's chair with a gun in his hands. He cried, everybody should stop.
Sit down, put your hands in the seats. I started to think what will happen on the one hand with my family, with my wife and my daughter. My wife was following the vote through the radio and through the TV. And my daughter was at that time 18 months. So immediately I thought on my family.
And I thought in my country that it was terrible to go back again to the dictatorship and to the military regime. So at the beginning was this feeling that the democratic process was stopped by this coup d'etat.
And also that your life was possibly in danger? Well, this was not sure at the beginning. Indeed it was a possibility to be killed by these guys. There was a very, very terrible moment when, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes after they invaded, they called for the main political leaders and they brought them to a different room. And we were not at all aware of what has happened with them.
The initial moments of the coup were caught in a radio broadcast, but soon the station was taken over by the civil guard and ordered to play military music. The 350 MPs were now hostages.
Ajattelin, ettÀ pyytÀisimme sigaretseja. Silloin meitÀ oli vielÀ moni. Se oli tÀrkein asia. En muista. Ajattelin, ettÀ emme... EhkÀ vettÀ, mutta ei ruokaa. Oletko saanut sigaretseja? Se oli vaikeaa. Silloin olin hyvin vahva sigaretseja. Muistan, ettÀ pyytin sigaretseja joitain kollegoita.
La corona. La corona.
Mutta hÀnen tietojaan oli lÀhettÀvÀ yksi yksi yksi ja tuli puolustuspaikalle. Ja noin, yhden minuutin, kun reilu puhui TV-kirjassa ja kun tietoja, joita ei ole muissa alueissa, oli tuotettu, niin puuttiin.
Ja kun olemme tunneet, ettÀ osallistujat, jotka haastelevat parlamentin, olivat yksilöitÀ, eivÀtkÀ heillÀ ollut todellista tuotantoa muissa puolustusryhmissÀ, niin tÀstÀ nÀkökulmasta saimme hyvÀn rauhan. HyvÀÀ uutta, koska demokraatio ei lopeta, mutta demokraatiot, jotka olivat parlamentin sisÀllÀ, eivÀt olleet edelleen valmiita.
And so this information was being passed one by one by one by one along the rows? Yeah, because it was not possible to walk inside the room. Or in some cases with some meetings in the toilets that were the real place to establish a dialogue with others.
I see. So you found out things when you went to the toilet? Yeah, yeah, indeed. It was the free space for freedom of speech. The king had rejected the coup, but it wasn't until 11 o'clock the following morning that Colonel Tejero finally surrendered and allowed the MPs to go free.
One of the members of the pushists took the floor and told us, where in a few minutes you will be allowed to leave this room. When the final agreement to open the doors was reached, the Speaker of the Parliament told the Guardia Civil, please wait a minute, and he formally closed the session of the Parliament.
Ja sen jÀlkeen menimme ulos tÀstÀ ruumasta, jossa oli kaksi rauhaa Guardia CivilsiÀ toisemme ja toisemme. Kaupungissa muistan, ettÀ paljon ihmisiÀ odotettiin meitÀ, paljon jÀrjestÀjiÀ, joiden jÀrjestÀjiÀ, joiden jÀrjestÀjiÀ, joiden jÀrjestÀjiÀ, joiden jÀrjestÀjiÀ.
vahva tunne ilmaista ja ilmaista, ettÀ voimme kÀydÀ Madridin kaupungin kautta uudestaan ilmaista ja ilmaista.