2004 National Elections were preceeded by a terrorist attack copied from the Italian Strategy of Tension, specifically, the Bologna massacre.
The same tension tactis were used by the Socialist party to win, in coalition, the 1936 National Elections, after triggering the insurrection of the Asturian miners in 1934.
Sounds like the hegelian dialectice (thesis vs antithesis = synthesis)
Wow, one almost needs a course in modern Spanish History to follow the divergent lines of thought contained in there J Aguilar.
tanuki, seems that Luis del Pino is answering your last question.
What is a “mediatic coup”? Is he saying that Rodriguez Zapatero will engineer some kind of terror attack before the election? Or by jihadists? Isn’t that why Aznar’s party LOST the last time?
We don’t see too much Counterrevolutionary commentary here on FR. Conservatism should be a big tent. Welcome!
Actually, I should have said ‘projecting themselves onto BOTH threats from Left and Right’-but of course, that is precisely what they are doing. I guess my bias is showing!