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In this revealing political memoir, Hernández Mancha, former president of Alianza Popular, offers an intimate look behind the scenes of Spanish politics from 1976 to 1990. From his early days as a state lawyer to his rise to the presidency of the party, he unravels the ins and outs of power and reveals the strategies and decisions that shaped the political landscape of the time, bringing profound and irreversible change that his successors put into practice. Through dialogues with important personalities of the time and interspersed with anecdotes that lighten the depth of the story, he highlights his role in the Popular Refoundation, underlining its transcendence in the future of the Spanish right wing. For Hernández Mancha, the Partido Popular cannot be the bird of ill omen that only sings its mournful song in the dark evenings of Spain's obsequies. Hernández Mancha shares with us his Orteguian ideas on the need to intercalate, between the State and the municipalities, the autonomous community as a regional institution. His break with international figures of the stature of Margaret Thatcher, challenging the status quo, leads us to his debates with leaders such as Felipe González and Adolfo Suárez and the disputes within his own party to convince everyone of the need for change, from a right wing of dour apparent elegance to another modern and without reactionary anchors.