A normal minister | Opinion

Carlos body It is a normal minister. The truly worrying for Spain is that this is a rarity. The head of Economy is a qualified person for his position, senior state official, and is publicly handled with the courtesy that would be expected from a government member. It does not insult on Twitter or launched to justify the unjustifiable in a press conference after the Council of Ministers. It moves with the discretion that demands its responsibility and attends to the media with the due openness and plurality. Every time he takes the floor, he transmits the feeling of knowing what he speaks and, in his appearances, he treats citizens as functional adults, not as agents of a pastueña and overflowing polarization. In Spain, The economy is going well, And it is likely that this success is attributable to the good proceeding of Carlos body and his predecessor, Nadia Calviño.

Some argue that in an executive diverse profiles must live together, and that, in the same way that the head of the Economy is polite and cultivated, it is convenient that there are more political or even rude figures. That premise is nothing more than a alibi to continue feeding loyalty, clientele networks and pacts between mediocre. It occurs in the PSOE, and it happens – as we have seen in DANA management— Also in the PP. A government is something serious enough to demand a minimum training and democratic prudence that makes certain behaviors impossible.

Good body education and its technical solvency are not dissociated qualities. When someone assumes with responsibility as relevant as a ministerial portfolio, competition is usually projected in all directions. Similarly, when we see a minister OA A counselor to immolate yourself live Until the ridiculous, it is not certain that they do it only by party discipline. It is not true that they defend the leader: they protect their chair. Who has loyalty as the only merit will always be willing to sacrifice, if the script demands it, its non -existent prestige and its public image.

In Spain we tend to open to the chickpea that leaves the pot, and it would not be strange if Carlos body would make his excellence pay. Especially those who lack it. You may, someday, someone with less prestige than he demands to put on the nose of clown and make a pirouette on the carpet. If that moment comes, for the good of the country I want to think that body will remember that there are things that a minister of Spain should never do.