One of the sad things about Chiquito de la Calzada’s passing is that we will never know how he would have pronounced it law. Although I’m sure he would have been wiser than our politicians. Because everyone abuses the concept: the left thinking that behind every judicial action there is a political cause, and the right understanding that behind every political action there must be a judicial cause. The government entrenches itself in power by supporting an ideologically motivated siege of judges – which is unreasonable, but useful – and the opposition focuses its attack on the government on court cases – which is absolutely irrational.
So, the law It has become the invisible ether that supports political life in Spain. Like quintessence in ancient Greece or Mesmer fluid in the 19th century, the law It doesn’t exist, but it is the principle that activates everything.
You don’t have to be Einstein, who ruled out the aether with the theory of relativity, to question the existence of the aether. law. It is enough to trust in the integrity of the members of a judiciary subject to extreme guarantees, with collegial decisions and multiple levels of appeal. In such a dense network every injustice ends up being trapped. And then look at the data. No democracy has placed so many representatives of the great patrimony on the bench: from the bench to the Royal House, passing through many conservative politicians. The PP has a number of open cases and pending sentences.
It is not logical to believe in a judicial conspiracy against the government, as the left does, even if it makes political sense if the legislature is sterile. But what makes no head or tail is what the PP does: relying on court cases to attack the Government. The popular ones convicted Sánchez in advance for all kinds of crimes: abuse of power due to the attorney general’s case, political corruption due to the amnesty or being the head of a mafia team.
The PP bases its criticism of the government on judicial decisions that are either not what they expect (amnesty in Europe) or, if they are (like the sentence against García Ortiz), dismantle the underlying thesis: that Sánchez is a dictator. What a strange dictatorship in which the attorney general is convicted of revealing secrets and the judges arrest two former organizational secretaries of the ruling party, the president’s wife and brother.
They can still fix it. Just think that Sánchez is not an authoritarian Orbán, but a senseless Scholz or Macron. I would see him as far as Condemor.
