Ha sido un honor -no lo hay mayor- haber sido Presidente del Gobierno de Espa a. Ha sido un honor dejar una Espa a mejor que la que encontr .

Esta frase no formaba parte del discurso original que Mariano Rajoy hab a preparado para la que iba a ser su ltima intervenci n como Presidente del Gobierno, el 1 de junio de 2018. Improvisada durante el trayecto hacia el Congreso de los Diputados y fruto de la emoci n del momento, resume a la perfecci n el esp ritu del presente libro. Una Espa a mejor es la cr nica personal de su etapa al frente del Ejecutivo y un testimonio imprescindible para entender los hechos decisivos de unos a os en los que Espa a se enfrent a trances muy complejos como la amenaza del rescate, la abdicaci n del rey o la crisis catalana, asuntos que ocupan un lugar destacado en sus p ginas.

Este libro responde solo a la voluntad de contar mi historia y mis vivencias desde la responsabilidad que ten a encomendada durante unos a os en los que nuestro pa s pudo haber quebrado, pudo haberse roto, pudo haber sufrido una severa merma en su sistema de protecci n social o incluso pudo haber vivido una seria crisis institucional por el relevo en la Jefatura del Estado. Todo pudo haber ocurrido, pero nada de ello sucedi . As es como yo lo vi y como yo lo viv . . Fin de la cita.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The personal chronicle of Mariano Rajoy as Head of the Executive.

"It has been an honor - there is none greater - to have been President of the Government of Spain. It has been an honor to leave Spain better than I found it."

This phrase was not part of the original speech that Mariano Rajoy had prepared for what was to be his last speech as President, on June 1, 2018. Improvised during the trip to the Congress of Deputies and the result of the emotions he felt at the moment, it summarizes perfectly the spirit of this book. A Better Spain is the personal chronicle of his time as Head of the Executive and an essential testimony to understand the decisive events of the years in which Spain faced very complex difficulties, such as the threats of the bailout, the abdication of the king or the Catalan crisis, matters that occupy a prominent place in the its pages.

"This book only comes about due to my wish to tell my story and my experiences based on the responsibility that I had been entrusted with for a few years in which our country could have gone bankrupt, it could have been broken, it could have suffered a severe decline in its social protection system, or it could even have experienced a serious institutional crisis due to the replacement of the Head of State. All this could have happened, but none did. This is how I saw it and how I lived it." End of quote.