Risto Mejide’s gratitude to Ignasi Guardans for something he did when he was a student

This Wednesday begins the first act of the hundred that Pedro Sánchez will do and that will be held in 2025 throughout the country to commemorate the 50 years since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. This is precisely what you asked him about. Risto Mejide a Ignasi Guardanspolitical analyst, in ‘Everything is a lie’. After a long conversation between the two, the presenter would ask him a question that would trigger a presenter’s confession, surely, unknown to everyone until now.

First of all, Ignasi Guardans pointed out that “It all depends on how you approach it”: “The narrative is built based on the excuses that are found around it. It depends on how you do it can be counterproductive. There is a risk. There is such a lack of knowledge about what the Franco regime meant… many lies have been told. I am concerned that the focus is on Francoism instead of where it should be. Like what happened next.”

Risto Mejide asked him about how he values ​​the absence of Felipe VI in this first act that Pedro Sánchez will carry out: “Quite legitimate. Although the King could have changed that date. He is right to wait for this to be defined. It is normal for the King to be left out a little and in the first act that It opens a sequence that does not know what it may mean if it is not there. “It seems prudent to me.”

After a few minutes, Risto Mejide thanked Ignasi Guardans for his analysis and I asked him one last question outside of the whole issue they were dealing with until then: “Where were you in 90-91?”. The political analyst pointed out that at that time he was teaching at the University of Navarra and doing his doctoral thesis in International Law, in addition to doing military service.

The presenter of Cuatro was begging and did not finish explaining why he had asked him that: “There are personal issues that are better not… but I take it out and then…” Virginia Riezu asked him not to leave them like this now and Risto started to tell it: “I think I made the wrong dates, but in those years There was a trip by some students from a Catalan school who went to Strasbourg, who did the International Baccalaureate. There they were received by a certain Ignasi Guardans. “I was one of those guys.”

Risto Mejide confessed that He had been very excited connect with Ignasi Guardans: “I remember what the European Parliament taught us. For me it was important because It was the first time I visited him. There I decided that one day I would have a television program about politics. Thank you for that session a few years later,” the presenter concluded, thanking him for his work and taking the opportunity to tell him.