From a PCE militant to a potential candidate for Vox’s motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez. This is the 180-degree political turn that Ramón Tamames, 89, has taken from his university days as an anti-Franco activist to his current position as a renowned economist receptive to Santiago Abascal’s proposal to stand up to the President of the Government and leader of the PSOE.
If the for now improbable eviction of La Moncloa were to take place, its new tenant would not be a neophyte in the assumption of public responsibilities: he was deputy mayor of Madrid under Enrique Tierno Galván between 1979 and 1981 and a deputy in Congress before and after his passage through the City Hall of the capital.
Tamames’s political activism began during his years as a Law and Economic Sciences student during the dictatorship. After Franco’s death, he was locked up in the Carabanchel prison for a month for participating in a demonstration in favor of amnesty for exiles from the Civil War and upon his release he stepped forward to assume a more leading role in the Transition, joining to the Executive Committee of the PCE.
Due to his progressive distancing from the postulates of Marxism, in 1981 he left Santiago Carrillo’s party and joined the Progressive Federation, from which he contributed to the formation of IU four years later. Finally in 1989 he took another leap towards the center by joining CDS, although he soon decided to put his activism on hold to focus on his work as a professor of Economic Structure.
Very critical of the policies promoted by Sánchez, in an interview in EL MUNDO published in May of last year he came to describe his government as “miserable.” He also thinks of the PSOE that it was a party that had “100 years of honesty” and that it has been “40 on vacation”, a phrase that despite being attributed to him, has been distanced from his authorship – he told El Confidencial that he heard it in Salamanca-, although he thinks it is “a reality”.
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