In the end, after years of extension, there has been an agreement to renew three relevant bodies -the constitutional Court (TC), that of Accounts and the Ombudsman– for which the Constitution, seeking consensus and maximum qualification, requires a highly qualified majority of three fifths. The relevant is pending General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the governing body of the judges, but something better than nothing.
However, satisfaction has given way to sadness and disappointment because one of the jurists chosen by the PP for the Constitutional Court, Enrique Arnaldo, has made his position as a lawyer in the Cortes compatible with well-paid consultancies to different autonomous governments of the PP and has participated in FAES events and written articles in ‘El Imparcial’, which seem more typical of a militant than of a conservative jurist. Partitocracy has led to the meritorious consensus being transmuted into party quotas in the renewal of the Constitutional: two positions for the PP and two for the Government of PSOE and Podemos. It doesn’t matter who.
As the teacher says Trees, the consensus has little to do with vicious quotas, but according to the lesser evil theory it is better to renew the organs than to let them rot in constitutional abnormality. Although someone as special as Enrique Arnaldo will be in the Constitutional Assembly, who outrages a large part of the opinion, the parties that have not signed the pact and who, moreover, risks being challenged on many occasions. Rufián, the foul-mouthed ERC spokesman, has accused the PSOE and Podemos of swallowing not a toad but a crocodile that is difficult to digest.
Outcome, the prestige of politics, no longer very high, has dropped a further degree, which will not help to face the serious problems of Spain. A few days (many) it is because the PSOE and the PP do not know how to agree on anything. Now, because the PP, the PSOE and Podemos (which has placed a close lawyer) have signed the crocodile pact. The lesser evil – to renew the constitutional organs – is despite all the lesser evil, but it smells bad and increases noise and discomfort.
Have you been consistent Odón Elorza, a brave Gipuzkoan socialist, by not voting for Arnaldo? From the individual point of view, yes, but if all the Socialist deputies had done the same, there would not have been the necessary renewal. But should the deputies be little more than obedient party officials? To think about it.
The worst thing is that, despite Enrique Arnaldo, the PP still does not guarantee the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, which is three years late
The worst is the PP does not guarantee to renew the CGPJ either. The lesser evil to return to stumble over the same stone? And in Moncloa they believe that it will be the PP that will pay a high price for placing someone like Arnaldo in the TC, while in Genoa they rub their hands because they have forced the PSOE to swallow a glass of castor oil, which will irritate part of your constituents and can upset you with your allies. Do you think it will be useful to separate the PSOE and Podemos -together for a day- from their partners from ERC, PNV and Bildu? Nothing would satisfy the right more than the explosion of the ‘Frankenstein coalition’.
The Government of Sánchez suffers a serious wear and tear of materials because Podemos takes its fights with the PSOE outdoors without any government culture. And he does not understand that if the ECB finances our deficit and the European countries give us 70 billion for investments, it is not because they share the recipes of Pablo Iglesias or Yolanda Díaz. Do you want to be in the EU, yes or no? You cannot take the money and run to say that Europe does not understand us.
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Yes, the PSOE-Podemos government suffers from its many and continuous inconsistencies, but the right-wing alternative is less presentable in Europe. Is a right-wing majority possible? In any case, only with a coalition in which Pablo Casado -or Isabel Ayuso- would be more hostage of Vox than Pedro Sánchez de Podemos. And in Europe – starting with Germany – Podemos does not like anything, but the entry of the extreme right into governments – even regional ones – is prohibited. By democratic consensus.
This week our democracy has malfunctioned and the Government tries suicide, but a PP-Vox alternative, which some conservative press in Madrid sees as normal as going to the Sierra at the weekend, would have nothing in common with the European right.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com