A minimum democratic sensitivity quickly warns that under exceptional conditions it is precisely when Parliament makes the most sense. Examples like Orban's in Hungary report the well-known authoritarian temptation that lurks in the political response to all collective trauma: a war, a crisis, a pandemic. In Spain, the opposition has shown its loyalty to the Sánchez government with works, voting in favor of the extension of the state of alarm due to the sense of state, but that responsibility does not entail pleasantry: its power oversight function is more current than ever , because Sánchez currently concentrates the most exceptional powers that a ruler has had since the death of Franco.

For this reason, the return of the control sessions to the Government in Congress and the lifting of the suspension of the deadlines for the processing of parliamentary initiatives is a victory for democracy. That suspension had been decided by the majority formed by the PSOE and Podemos at the Congress Table, thus paralyzing all activity and freeing the Executive from the obligation to respond to the opposition's questions within a specific time frame. Security can never be the pretext for permanently restricting freedom : the state of alarm provided for in our Constitution is defined by its provisional nature and subject to political and journalistic control. The media deals with the second when the Secretary of State for Communication does not prevent it; from the first we will obtain today a sample in the plenary session that will settle the new extension of the state of alarm, among other decrees.

Increasingly, the voices of jurists suspect an overreach in the Government's interpretation of the state of alarm. Many point out that we are de facto already living under a state of emergency. It should not be forgotten that the Government has had to backtrack on the balloon probe on the confinement for asymptomatic in infrastructure, which lacked legal coverage. But at the expense of today's debate, it is important to clarify something from now on: any appeal to the spirit of the Transition and the Pacts of La Moncloa that is not accompanied by the initiative - credible, credited with facts, not with an isolated call - from whoever holds the first responsibility, which is the president, we will have to take as the umpteenth trick of the Moncloa political marketing factory , which, even in the face of a pandemic that threatens to devastate the country's productive fabric, is unable to park its enveloping maneuvers and games of story. Agreeing means giving in, giving up the ideological agenda itself in favor of the best proposals of the opposition, whose experience of economic management cannot be ruled out, unless it aspires to keep the helm of sectarianism to the end at the price of sinking with the ship.

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