This November 20, 50 years after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, Andreu Buenafuente has decided to return to black and white in the program Imperfect future recreate No-Do, the news program of Francoism, and reflect with it on all those who claim that Spain is once again “a dictatorship”.
The broadcast of TVE La 1 began with the famous music from the regime’s television program and an incoming voice worn out (by the same presenter) who described the entrance of the “humor leader and presenter Andrés Buenafuente” in the Terrassa theater to “give this country a night of jokes and jokes”. And the first line of the monologue starts off strong: “November 20th is also the World Transgender Day of Remembrance. Franco wouldn’t want it because he’s trans, nor because it’s a transition, nor because it’s a memory.”
The Catalan comedian obviously dedicated much of the monologue to the future and to all those who say that with President Pedro Sánchez we live “in a dictatorship”: “People confuse dictatorship with something they don’t like. ‘What is there to eat today?’ ‘Lentils’. “This is a dictatorship!”, he categorized referring to PP politician Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo or presenter Mariló Montero, who just won Masterchef Celebrity after criticizing TVE’s editorial line: “Speaking of intellectual references… he says to say ‘without any exaggeration, we are on the road to dictatorship.’ My mother, who is a worried lady, called me running and said ‘another dictatorship?’. Because he experienced a true dictatorship,” he underlined.
Buenafuente then decided to look in the dictionary if the definition of dictatorship had changed and realized that it had not: “A dictatorship applies repression, eliminates political pluralism, limits the use of languages, prevents sexual freedom, takes away women’s rights and censorship. Furthermore, in Spain, it supported the death penalty and prohibited freedom of expression. In other words, if we had been in a dictatorship, I could not have said what I said”, said the presenter to applause. of the public and before explaining another disturbing headline: “Almost 20% of young Spaniards believe that Franco’s dictatorship is positive”, it is equally important not to have experienced it”, he explained: “Perhaps these young people have heard that ‘with Franco we lived better’, another of those most widespread nonsense. But guys, that wasn’t the sentence, it’s: ‘We lived with Franco, perhaps’, he concluded his speech, and asked: “Let’s see if we bury Franco now and there’s no chance he can do that.” The issue resurfaces and is now buried deep in this country’s worst memory.”
This same week, TVE also announced that Buenafuente was chosen, together with his wife Silvia Abril, as presenter of the bells of the public body, following the good viewing figures of his program (he achieved another record this Thursday, obtaining a share of 14.3% and 1,056,000 viewers on average).
This Thursday the couple released the first statements on the matter Imperfect futurewith much sarcasm and Buenafuente assuring that Abril had taken it secretly: “I asked you if we would ring the bells and you told me yes,” he explained. “I thought it was a strange question considering that’s what we’ve been doing for the last 17 years. I thought you were referring to something else,” said the husband, who revealed he didn’t know any of the protocols, despite having already submitted the grapes once to La Sexta.
