The Supreme Court ruling on the institutional coup of September and October 2017 marks the limits of the State and certifies its inability to avoid its own implosion. Nothing allows us to think about the continuity of the Spanish nation's political structure in the second half of the 70s of the last century. Because after the Judiciary has deployed its best resources in a rigorous instruction , an accusation perfectly armed by the Prosecutor's Office , an impeccable guarantee process and a sentence issued under the law unanimously of the seven magistrates of the courtroom, it is very likely that the condemned leave prison shortly - thanks to the transfer of regional competencies - and continue their, they have already warned, a postponed secessionist project. Even disabled . It would be a mistake, however, to blame Justice for everything. Because it is the State, through the three powers that articulate it, that has shown itself impotent to disarm the forces that, from Catalonia and the Basque Country, threaten to crack it.

The Legislative power has already failed , unable to elaborate a Criminal Code that typifies in an updated, clear and unambiguous manner the attempts at secession of a part of the country. With or without violence. And that imposes severe penalties (without penitentiary privileges) for those who want to break the system of rights, freedoms and well-being, sustained on territorial and unimaginable solidarity for all 40 years ago. Nor have the parliamentarians managed to agree and modify an electoral law that makes the creation of representative and stable governments impossible.

But the Executive also failed . First Rajoy's . During six years. Then Sánchez's . None were able to prevent the creation, through the diversion of public money, of parallel state structures of an autonomous government declared in absentia. The 155, which passed like light through the glass, and the process of promises and dialogue with the Government of Torra were equally imprudent. And ineffective .

The state can still react. Or let Basque and Catalan independence be de facto consumed in a Europe where the old nations are no longer a guarantee of anything. Sánchez , Rivera and Casado have wasted a unique opportunity to face the necessary constitutional reforms before left and right populisms continue to drill institutions. The ruling of the TS closes the cycle of responses of the three powers to separatism. All insufficient.

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