Since arriving in Moncloa in 2018, Pedro Sánchez has shown a special allergy for accountability. Unlike his predecessor, this president does not sneak the showcase; on the contrary, it is liked in public appearances and is multiplied in press conferences and their substitutes, such as the famous Hello President during the state of alarm in which Moncloa filtered the questions. But the reality is that he talks and talks, and says almost nothing . Sánchez maintained that trend yesterday after his summer office with the King in Palma. The least of it is that their silence for response or circumlocution to divert attention imply null respect for the work of journalists, who exercise it on behalf of citizens, the ultimate custodians of a right as essential as that of information. What is more is that the Government does not assume that accountability cannot be an arbitrary whim, but that it is a fundamental principle by which democratic quality is also measured .

And it is not very democratic that the president played Don Tancredo when asked about a matter as serious as the imputation of a judge to Podemos for irregular financing . It is a party that today is part of the Government of the Nation. And that is why the matter demands immediate explanations and calls upon the president himself, who cannot hide his head like an ostrich. Sánchez limited himself to underlining the truism that "justice is independent . " Suddenly, he seemed like a different person from the one who a few weeks ago launched forceful messages about Juan Carlos I, calling the news about his alleged economic scandals "disturbing" and "disturbing" - the Emeritus has not yet faced any legal case, unlike the purple formation- and pressuring Felipe VI to force him to leave Zarzuela . Nor did he seem the same Sánchez who two years ago warned Rajoy at all hours that he had to stand up for the possible irregular financing of the PP, and who later had no qualms about basing his motion of censure on a falsehood about the Gürtel that the same audience Nacional clarified that it was .

The president now does not ask for explanations from his partners, identified as they are for corruption, nor does he himself clarify when so much is talked about exemplary if these behaviors have a place in his coalition government, which presumed to have arrived to regenerate public life. Sánchez limited himself yesterday to repeating that Spain needs strong institutions, stability and a horizon of trust . But none of these things are offered, on the contrary, an Executive under suspicion . Luckily, he fulfilled his obligation by asking for "maximum respect" for the judges after the fierce campaign that those of Iglesias are carrying out, accusing them of partiality and little less than being at the service of Vox and its announced motion of censure.

Regarding the Crown, Sánchez washed his hands again about the whereabouts of Don Juan Carlos , emphasizing that the Government and the House of the King "are two different institutions." The president has not even been accountable to the Spaniards yet about the pressure from his Executive that led to the departure of the Emeritus of the Palace , a measure that has helped the Monarchy so little or nothing.

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