<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - February 23]]> 10 <![CDATA[Forgetting history as a weapon of imposition]]> The response of Spain's two major parties, then the UCD and PSOE, to the attempted coup of February 23, 1981, was the Organic Law for the Harmonization of the Autonomy Process (LOAPA) of June 1982. The Prime Minister at the time was Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. The law's aim was to moderate and pacify the autonomy process, prioritize state regulations over regional ones, and close the fast track of Article 151 of the Constitution to non-historical regions, among other things. A year later, the Constitutional Court annulled 14 of the law's 38 articles and declared the principle of state supremacy unconstitutional.

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The declassification of documents regarding the 23-F coup attempt served as an excuse for PP leaders to rush to demand the return of the former king to Spain. "It would be a collective failure as a country if Juan Carlos I were to end his days in exile," said the Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, shortly after Feijóo made the same statement. The revealed secrets of the coup have yielded little more than a few minor details and have confirmed what we already knew. The PP's attempt to exploit the head of state's correct actions—his duty—45 years ago to glorify him is a demagogic attempt to ignore why he chose to go to Abu Dhabi. Voluntarily. He didn't do it solely to save the Crown or his son's reign, but for the security of living in a country where he wouldn't have to pay a single euro in taxes.

]]> <![CDATA[A journalist from Mallorca tried to convince Tejero to abandon the coup attempt of February 23rd.]]>

A Mallorcan journalist tried to convince Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero to abandon his plans on the night of February 23, 1981. This is according to documents declassified this Wednesday, which include the transcript of journalist Joan Pla's testimony as a witness in the April 19, 1982 session of Oral Hearing 2.

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