The noise is the signal | Opinion
The Government breaches the Constitution Not presenting budgets. Its reason is the fragility of their parliamentary support and, above all, the danger of evidence again: there is no majority that holds it. As Ana Carmona remembered, In similar situations in 1995 and in 2019 Felipe González and Pedro Sánchez convened general elections. The procedure chosen is now breaking a constitutional obligation, despising Parliament and excluding citizens from the debate on public accounts (in addition, the mechanism facilitates that regional governments justify their unacceptable escapes). The impossibility of governing is concealed through the swelling of the Executive and communicative hyperactivity: that is, with authoritarian gestures and putting us to discuss. It is not difficult to distinguish between noise and signal; The noise is the signal.
The government spokeswoman said that the project of the Budget Law was not presented To not waste time the citizens and was right: They prefer to lose it in other things. It doesn’t matter if issues are important or not; The crucial thing is to focus them as bullshit. An example is the statements of the First Vice President, Minister of Finance and Head of the opposition in Andalusia – such as other ministers and many Spaniards, must resort to multiple – who said that the presumption of innocence should not be ahead of the testimony of young women. Half rectified, Given the general outrage, the protests of professional associations and the discomfort of their party, because the presumption of innocence is a basis of the rule of law. For a few days we discussed a few words released like the pedorreta of a balloon that gets rid of colliding with the walls of a room. But those statements also erode democracy.
The debate about private universities It is another distraction. An important issue is undertaken in an opportunist, hypocritical and chabacana. Several members of the Government – including the president – have titles of private universities, centers that according to Olga Sanmartín have increased their places by 55% since 2018, compared to 0.17% of public universities. A government, and a social democratic government should aspire to improve the public university rather than designate as a convenient enemy. But everything is frivolous and serious at the same time: while humorists give doctrine on public television, the occurrences of ministers barely move laugh.
