It will not surprise you to know that the control session for the president of the Generalitat this Wednesday revolved around corruption, the latest cases accusing the PSOE, Rodríguez Zapatero – “he was not Bambi,” according to Alejandro Fernández (PP), always witty – and the alleged splashes on the financing of Salvador Illa’s electoral campaign – “Zapatero and Illa, separated at birth,” Fernández insisted in his ironies. The president defended himself by denying the main accusation (“all the documentation is deposited in the Audit Office. All of it. And the comparison in the audit report regarding other campaigns is favorable to my party”). And to not be out of place in the scene, he joined in the “well, look at you” game: “I don’t mind being compared to Zapatero; I would be more bothered if I were compared to Aznar, with whom you have many similarities.”
I know, this whole matter, intentionally and by pure journalistic logic, takes up minutes, screens, and pages – although there are fewer and fewer pages to take up, how sad. The multiplication of headlines contributes to the megamix of anger and depression that many people carry. It makes perfect sense, of course, to ask for clarifications and go to the bottom of things, and a little more presumption of innocence wouldn’t hurt either. But the worst thing is that so much noise turns Jessica Albiach’s (Comuns) question about energy poverty into an almost off-key note. The same deputy, after demanding from Illa a solidarity fund to help those affected by supply cuts, felt compelled to resort to the topic: “Zapatero and Sánchez are late in giving explanations (…) we agree that there is lawfare, but not everything is lawfare.”
The judicial scandals have pushed almost all other issues to the B series of questions, those asked to the consellers. As if the political weight of the health situation, the rebellion in classrooms, the public transport chaos, the housing crisis, or, in general, the embarrassing contrast between a booming macroeconomy and a pitiful microeconomy were less important.
On the other hand, what do people spend more time worrying about? What specific weight would the alleged mediations of Zetapé with the Venezuelan universe have if public services worked properly? Amid so much judicialization, it is sometimes hard to detect the agenda of those who aspire to overthrow Sanchism (well, some solve everything with the “national priority”: Rodalies with white passengers will be great, it seems). Politics must be asked for honesty, without a doubt, but no more than effectiveness in its basic supposed goal: improving life in society.
In this same newspaper, presenter Marc Giró has just proclaimed: “Right now, politically, I find it more interesting to watch series like Ravalejar than to follow the soap opera of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.” Ravalejar is a series about real estate speculation in Barcelona. There’s the reflection.
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