The blow from the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) to Minister Salvador Illa, and by extension to the Government of Sánchez, was seen coming.
You cannot manage a pandemic from arbitrariness, foreboding and arrogance
.
It should not be governed like this in any case, but after tens of thousands of deaths and with a growing ruin that exceeds the worst expectations, much less.
In these pages we have insisted that the catastrophic impact of the disease in our country forced
to Sánchez to put down his usual divisive formula, his with me or against me, to release the sincerity of that rhetorical appeal to unity that does not fall from his mouth while he practices the opposite.
But it has not been like that and now even the courts are ugly.
Not even if the end pursued had been laudable -only sanitary-,
only dictatorships avoid the legality of the procedure
and justify any means.In a devastating paragraph, the TSJM comes to coincide in the peremptory initiative that EL MUNDO, civil society and different political groups led by the PP -but also Cs or the PNV- have been demanding the Government since adopted the state of alarm, in the conviction that this exceptional measure should soon find
an alternative legal framework to manage de-escalation and then facilitate the work of the autonomies
with a reinforcement of their skills.
"It is striking that given the described health scenario, a reform of our regulatory framework more in line with the confessed needs to effectively combat the covid-19 pandemic and face the serious health crisis that the country is suffering was not addressed," concludes the resolution.
But Sánchez gave up the virus, he inhibited himself by transferring all responsibility to the autonomies and
at the turn of the summer he set his political objective on Díaz Ayuso
.
It is not otherwise possible to understand that Illa abruptly veered from sanitary criteria in a couple of days to harden her diagnosis -when Madrid had already begun to offer positive data as a result of its own selective restriction plan- and impose comprehensive intervention using a norm that "does not contain a legal authorization for the establishment of restrictive measures of fundamental rights."
To the succession of negligence regarding the mandatory nature of masks or the botched purchase of material,
the minister adds a judicial failure that leaves him in an untenable position
.
What are state attorneys for?
Why did he evade stamping his signature on the ministerial order, forcing a subordinate to do it for him?
Adult politics is about taking responsibility, not looking for shortcuts to the law or replacing management with embarrassing marketing antics. Madrid has been the scene of a political struggle, not a health one.
Ayuso did well in defending the interests of Madrid citizens in court against legal abuse
with which Moncloa denied that institutional loyalty vaunted at the top of the flags.
And it is also right to call the pact again so that, in good faith, the two administrations sit down to negotiate as soon as possible a weighted and legal regulation that addresses both contagion levels that continue to be worrisome and the battered Spanish motor economy, which is Madrid.
They must do it before the bridge, to avoid risky movements and
finally offer the people of Madrid the clarity that until now they have not had
.
Hopefully Sánchez understands that this is not a war for submission and will abandon the temptation to retaliate through an unnecessary state of alarm.
ad hoc,
because such a way of seeking satisfaction from his wounded pride would only make things worse for the citizens.
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