There are times when even the most knowledgeable does not want to appear so, rejecting a certain interpretation of some important legal text. As happens in the case of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with its article 8.
On many occasions, as a constituent deputy that I was – in 1977 and 1978 – I intervened in the constitutional debate. And even after the Law of Laws was promulgated, I appreciated the maximum importance of the aforementioned article, in which the Armed Forces (FAS) can be guarantors of the sovereignty and independence of Spain and its territorial integrity and constitutional order. Nothing more and nothing less.
And after that prefiguration in our Law of Laws, more than once I asked one of the seven constitutional father deputies why point 2 of the aforementioned article had not been developed: it is empty, still without reflection of the organic law, which is foreseen.
Even the several times in which I have raised the question of whether Article 8 opens the possibility of military intervention in the face of a serious constitutional problem, illustrious jurists have answered me in vague terms. There is fear of saying something precise about a topic that is so delicate.
The fact is that last Tuesday, September 8, in a session especially dedicated to the admirable Mr. Juan Jesús Vivas, President of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, at the Four Seasons Hotel, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, maximum leader of the PP as the de facto host, some highlighted the importance of the article in question.
And surely the day before, on Tuesday the 7th, all of this was discussed in depth, in what was perhaps an article 8 type meeting chaired by King Felipe VI, and without Pedro Sánchez being there, perhaps prolonging his crazy vacation.