The transition has been analyzed in this brief session. Some considered the transit to Spanish democracy as an example. On the other hand, the author of the programme assures that, at the time of the change from Franco to democracy, not enough justice was done. He also says that the transition is taboo, an unintelligible idea for understanding Spain today.

 

The author considers language as an instrument for the search for justice, asserts the need to go to poetry. However, little has been written about the transition from the point of view of poetic justice, the only exception is Gabriel Aresti – thanks to the forbidden law poem –.

The transition did not begin in 1975, as the Spaniards wanted to believe after Franco's death. The Transition began in 1960 with the creation of ETA, with the revolt of priests who were imprisoned at the time of Forbidden Law written by Aresti in 1691 or in Zamora prison. However, the story of the struggle of those generations who brought down Franco has not been written correctly. They gained freedom through amnesty, but without doing justice. Moreover, the oppressed and the oppressors were “imposed” the same justice. The Francoists were amnestied, without their crimes being tried or convicted.

 

Fifty years have passed. We have to do justice that has not been exercised in art, if we manage to balance the balance of justice. The author sees the need to rethink it in order to make a report of what has happened in the past and a “political criticism or self-criticism” based on what has been experienced. The programme has analysed the way to date, but without going into the political “facts” of the recent past. I have detected “self-criticism” in the program and offered guidelines for the second transition. I would be grateful if the author, in addition to a political session, would conduct a sociological essay, study the problem from a more socio-cultural than a political point of view.

I look forward to the continuation of this sitting.