Flexi-democracy | Opinion | The country

That a Movement of all democratic systems towards a clear preeminence of the Executive It seems to me that he admits few doubts. In some cases because of the populist turn of some leaders, to whom we now like to attribute the character of « strong men »; In others, as in our own country, due to the combination of obvious difficulties in governance with the need to adapt to new political contingencies. Among the latter are situations such as the ultimatum on the increase in military budgets, trying to defend the productive sectors that will be most affected by Trump tariffs, or the Maintain coherence in the face of positioning in the Palestinian-Israelí conflictto mention some of those that have now exploded. A government with firm majority support would solve them without major political transaction costs; Ours, for the reasons we all know, has to be raffling them following the strategy of the stick and the carrot.

In the same week it has been in need of Upload 2% Military Expenditure of GDP and, at the same time, terminate the contract for the purchase of weapons with Israeli companies. The president’s absence at funerals by the Pope in Rome would already enter another category, because it would be absurd to respond to something like a « leftist » gesture – although atypical, the Vatican is also a state – or, as some means suggest, for the same presence of the king in the fakes.

As can be seen, each of these assumptions mentioned responds to various motivations, do not follow a different pattern to the need to sail contingencies. Some of these were already planned, such as the famous 2%, whose impact face to government partners has been reduced by concentrating the increase on necessary games for defense but not necessarily « armament »something that seems somewhat childish, no matter how much essential investments. In any case, here the considerations of state reason clearly prevailed over the fuss to their left; Not so seeking to add to annuling the importation of Israeli ammunition.

Where I want to get with this is to underline how current political challenges escape many times what would demand the slightest coherence. There is no longer something like a « normal policy »; Now you have to adapt to a mobile, accelerated and unpredictable world in which states, in addition, can no longer make war on their own. Even less being subject to supranational commitments. In view of this, electoral commitments or coalition agreements are often as a wet paper. The result is the fall in something that we could qualify as democracy elastic or flexible, marked by uncertainty and the need to act on the ALBUR of events. If this coincides at the same time with a situation of growing fragmentation of party systems, the usual veto policy or putting partisan considerations – ideological? – above the need to act in a certain direction must be considered very seriously. Because it is very true that the element of flexibility is also manifested in the resource to shortcuts in decision -making procedures, such as the abuse of decree-law or law propositions.

This last consideration should lead us to an awareness of the dangers that the absence of consensus for considerations of another nature can have for the democratic system. For example, the logical thing is that the increase in the defense budget is incorporated into an ordinary budget and that it is debated and approved in Parliament. Flexible policy should never be put over the safeguard of institutions.