Spain, land of mediators

“Spain, land of mediators”. If a Government decided one day to recover the Marca España initiative to improve the image of the country abroad and among the Spaniards themselves, that should be the national slogan that would accompany the rojigualda on its triumphalist walk around the world..

With whom the PSOE and the PP have agreed for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, there are now three mediators landed in Spanish politics to help our representatives do the duties that due to age and responsibility they should deliver on time without the need to have reinforcement teachers. Mediator for the PSOE to speak with Esquerra, mediator for the PSOE to do the same with Junts and mediator for the PSOE-PP dialogue to solve the abuse that politics has been perpetrating to Justice for a whole five years.

We are required to make an effort so that, far from criticizing and considering the decision of the two major Spanish parties a serious anomaly, we consider it normal that PP and PSOE ask the EU for help to finally renew the governing body of the judges with the competition direct from the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders. Propaganda tells us that at the end of the day the European Union is also Spain, which means we do not go beyond the limits of our own sovereignty, and that although the mechanism is a bit extravagant, it will serve to solve a serious problem of democratic quality.. The means and the end are, therefore, appropriate according to the most sweetened version of what was agreed that has been sold..

Both things, that the EU is not a strange actor and that the renewal of the CGPJ cannot be postponed, are true and, therefore, irrefutable.. And yet, there is a recognition in the decision of such magnitude of the own inability of popular and socialists to put into practice a minimum of what is called the vision of the State, that it is difficult to see what is positive in asking for help to fulfill something that is an inalienable part of the constitutional obligations of the party that governs and the party that leads the opposition.

You can see the glass half full, of course. At the end of the day, the PSOE and the PP have finally agreed on something. That something is the formal acceptance of their lack of interest in placing general interests above the very particular benefits of one party.. For the optimistic mood, this recognition of one's own limitations is great news. As is someone who, recognizing themselves in an addiction, finally assumes that they need outside help to get out of it..

For the pessimists, among whom we count ourselves, it is nothing more than the resigned naturalization of inability, irresponsibility and meanness.. The revelation of the low quality of the shaft with which our leaderships are made and the serious aluminosis that affects the main political organizations of the country.

From Felipe VI's Christmas speech, one of his main ideas has been highlighted that the Constitution not only requires that it be respected, but also that the identity that defines it be preserved, drawn as a collective pact of all and among all. for a shared purpose.

Well, it is that shared purpose that the monarch demands that is difficult to see in Spanish politics.. And the need to resort to third-party mediation for the renewal of the CGPJ is thus certified: “Hey, gentlemen of the commission, give us a cable because here about the collective agreement for a shared purpose we have forgotten how to do it and to that!”.

It is not the lack of trust between them, as our political provosts argue, that makes it impossible for substantive agreements to be reached without having to shout at the lifeguard to please throw a float in the form of mediation so that we do not drown in the pool of the institutional deterioration.

Lack of trust is nothing more than the natural consequence of something much more serious and substantive.. That is, the defense at all costs and to the last consequences of one's own and particular interest, without measuring the consequences that derive from it for a collective project that, although it is increasingly difficult to notice in the institutions, fortunately continues to operate for the most part. at street level.

But since it's Christmas, let's let ourselves be carried away by the spirit of the holidays and embrace without reservation the conviction that if the EU accepts the order, we will get something positive out of all this. Let's agree with those who celebrate how good it will be in the long term if our junkies in the division have finally accepted that they can't keep getting into everything.

“Hello, we are the president and the leader of the opposition and we recognize that we are hooked on the division and brutalization of political discourse in our country”. That's where it starts, champions, of course. You have been very brave.