- Spanish political satire.
- During the Spanish transition to democracy, a new political party was founded: Democratic Concord of the Spanish State. Its creators will choose a famous businessman as a candidate for the Senate, but not before resorting to the services of an efficient consultant in charge of washing his image and his past: Gundisalvo has just been born.—jsanchez
- In the early democracy, a still-not-legalized political party, Democratic Concord of the Spanish State, chooses Gundisalvo García as their candidate to the Senate. Gundisalvo is a rich construction businessman, and the party convinces him to pay the expenses of the campaign, because, they say, Concord does not accept donations from external sources or "the capital" (or more likely those are not offered). The party has a "broad spectrum policy", meaning they are not committing with anyone, pretending to take the best from each option - so Gundisalvo will claim to oppose divorce or to promote it, depending on his audience. The party sends him a campaign manager, Julio Pedraza, who turns Gundisalvo's family, friends and service into a political staff and changes their lifestyles to give Gundisalvo a more likable public image, training them on how to behave (and changing Gundisalvo's diet and routines). Pedraza, always the trickster, takes a rabble-rouser, an unpaid employee of Gundisalvo who threatens with a strike, and hires him as his assistant with a better salary, much to the chagrin of Gundisalvo's "financial manager" and best friend Olegario Matallana. His political enemy is conservative Aníbal Ocaña of Approved Democratic Coalition, who spies on Gundisalvo and tricks his wife to give him old photos that prove that Gundisalvo supported the dictatorship, even if his campaign claims otherwise. Ocaña's teams also obtain photos of Gundisalvo with his long-term lover Lolita; but Pedraza deflects the harm by tricking Ocaña to have a one-night stand *with the same woman*, obviously with Gundisalvo and Lolita being very reluctant; this is successful, managing to keep Gundisalvo's wife in the dark (and Pedraza keeps Gundisalvo in the dark while also enjoying Lolita's charms, as Gundisalvo's goddaughter's Lupe is uninterested in him). The campaigns and counter-campaigns are a succession of dirty tricks, like Pedraza scheduling a strip-tease at the same time Ocaña has his important meeting with an international guest - the audience would rather see the stripper. But when the stripper cancels, Pedraza insists that Lupe covers for her (hiding it from Lupe's father, Olegario), using the campaign's hymn because that's the only tape they have. Gundisalvo's speeches leave him hoarse just when Olegario discovers what he made his daughter do, and before another speech that is solved using a playback style - but of course with the wrong tapes. The stress causes Gundisalvo to be sick just on the election day; Pedraza fills him with medicines and takes him to the stalls (where they coincide with Ocaña, who angrily gives him the "cuckold" sign; Gundisalvo's wife is convinced that his enemies are smearing *her* reputation). Instead of voting, Gundisalvo behaves crazily, chanting consigns, proselytizing and buying votes in the polling station, and the police arrests him - but when the policemen see that's the man in the campaign posters, they understand they're in for a bad time. The story the ends with a caption saying that Gundisalvo was elected senator, comparing that with Churchill's quote "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" - then, the policeman's voice is repeated: "We're in for a bad time."
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