Don Rafael Montoya-Escarra, leader of the Nationalist Party, delivered an address this week on the Kingdom of our fathers, read into the parliamentary record and distributed through the customary channels. The themes were familiar: continuity, the soil, the older forms of order. The tone was temperate.

The address arrives at a week in which the Chamber faces the fuel reserve, the registry breach, and now the northern tariff. Don Rafael's office indicated that the Nationalist benches will support the sealed-reserve formula on Monday, a position that aligns them with the Government on the principal vote of the week without committing them to the coalition more broadly.

The Herald notes the address without extended quotation. Don Rafael's arguments have been set before our readers at length in prior editions, and the record will keep.