Democracy is not destroyed in an afternoon. It is not a castle of cards that collapses with a blow, but a wall that breaks And this weakens the structure of the building gradually. The Roman Republic does not fall because someone decided to abolish it, but because the custom of jumping the rules became normal in itself. The Athens of Pericles, Cradle of Democracy, He ended up becoming a theater in which appearances counted more than principles. Today the process is thinner. It is sufficient to get used to people that some rules do not apply and that some others are relative, flexible or, at least, questionable.
First of all, you have to build walls. In November 2023, Pedro Sánchez has declared his intention of “building a wall in front of the right and ultra -ditito”A symbolic border that transforms politics into a battlefield between good and bad. In the classic Athens, this type of division led to the Costcism of political rivals, as in republican Rome ended up justifying the use of violence to resolve disputes. When politics becomes a set of trenches, dialogue becomes impossible and power remains in the hands of those who direct unbearable history and polarization. It is curious to know how the two majority parts agree on foreign policy issues and there is no way to prove it.
It is curious to know how the two majority parts agree on foreign policy issues and there is no way to prove it.
Therefore, it is convenient Treat parliament as an optional, obsolete and expired organ. On September 8, 2024, Sánchez said that “we will govern with or without parliament”. The phrase is so serious that he should have paralyzed the public debate for weeks. The idea of governing without the control of the legislator recalls the times when the absolute kings justified their authority with the divine law. Louis XIV did not need Parliament because it was the state. The debate on the state of the nation It is also a statement that begins to seem rare.
Another essential step to undermine democracy is cheating with budgets. The Spanish Constitution, in its article 134, establishes that the government is required to submit the budgets of the general state for approval by the general courts. However, a few days ago, the spokesman Pilar Alegría clarified his position when he said that presenting the budgets without a previous agreement was “a waste of time”. You will fulfill your obligation and see what happens.
The attack on the judicial sentences that the government does not like is another key point. The separation of powers only serves when it works in favor of that. This weekend, María Jesús Montero launched the principle of presumption of innocence from the ground when Dani Alves spoke of the case. He hasn’t explained it yet, nor has he made a threat of rectification. The role of the Constitutional Court, which does not belong to the judiciary and which seems to be more in the service than the government, is also a clear objective of concern and democratic crisis. We have already said it once. When another government arrives, will you be able to return to the beginning of the game or will you take advantage of the traps that the current one has done?
