Alberto Casero left politics at the age of 45, after a lifetime holding public positions in the PP, where he joined when he was 18. He had the fifteen minutes of fame that every human being deserves, no matter how insignificant, when he gave the wrong button (he had to decide between two) to approve the labor reform that rejected his training. Without his mistake, this law approved two years ago, which has given stability to employment and has transformed the labor market, would not have come into force. Feijóo himself has acknowledged that if he had arrived at Moncloa he would not have changed it, which shows that it is bad policy to be systematically against everything the government does when you are in the opposition.
The luck for the Spanish is that Casero was there to unpick during the day what his party sewed at night, like a revived Penelope. Maybe it wasn't bad luck, but rather an unconscious vocation to err to protect the common good. Six months had not passed since such a mistake when he again made a mess with the buttons and on this occasion he supported the investigation commission to determine Mariano Rajoy's responsibilities in the case of the patriotic police during the so-called Catalunya operation, against the position of the PP.
This Casero did not refer to his last name and voted differently from those in his house. He was not due to lack of experience, since he had been a councilor and mayor of Trujillo, a parliamentarian of the Assembly of Extremadura, a deputy in Congress and a member of the Senate. Rather, it was because of his bad head, understanding the term not in a moral sense, but in an organizational one.
On Tuesday we saw him again but he was badly shaved. He had left the PP so as not to harm it (further) in March of this year, after being accused by the Supreme Court of embezzlement of public funds and prevarication, while being mayor of his city. He has accepted a sentence of one year and nine months, six years of disqualification and the payment of compensation of 70,000 euros. A degrading end for someone who at least did a decent act: approve the labor reform.
