It will be Christmas nonsense, but the other day we were doing with some friends an account of who was from which wise man. A lot of Baltasar, some Melchor and almost no Gaspar. I do not have the figures, but I would dare to say that it is a fairly widespread statistic, although I would not know how to explain the reasons for these preferences. I doubt it has to do with the offerings they brought, myrrh was always a greater mystery than incense, nor with its meaning: King, God and Man.
But it does not occur to anyone that the relative preferences between any of their majesties undermine the whole of the triad that was always more important than any of its individuals: we applauded them the same in the parades, we speak of them in the plural.
A bit contrary to what is happening with the necessary balance between the three powers of a democratic and legal State. We give our opinion and we get heated with the legislative power, we assume without question the expansive view of the executive power, we even applaud it and instead we ignore the judiciary, only criticizing it sporadically, although we know that, even being the Gaspar of the thing, nothing works without it. .
For this reason, it would be convenient not to be deceived: although it seems that the storm has subsided with the renewal of the Constitutional Court, we have inaugurated 2023 and the CGPJ has not yet been renewed. Our lives apparently remain the same, but the foundations of our coexistence are more cracked. And the cracks are invisible until one day, for nothing that seems very serious, they widen and stop supporting the building. to time.
A friend, from the same group with whom we talked about the three Wise Men, told me that his summary of what is happening is “everyone is wrong”. And he is right.
Bad for the PP, which has been breaking the Constitution for years and conditioning the renewal of the CGPJ to the legislative agenda of a legitimate government. Sense of ownership more than a sense of loyalty. Badly for Congress and the Senate, which have ceded their role to the Executive and Ferraz and Genoa.
The Constitutional Court is bad, not so much because of its ruling in the amparo appeal, but because of the non-recusal of two of its magistrates. As Tomás y Valiente said: "Being the Constitutional Court the only competent body to settle conflicts between constitutional bodies of the State, it could hardly resolve conflicts in which it itself was a party."
Bad for the PSOE, which intends to process a reform of the Penal Code and a reform of the constitutional block through amendments, without legal reports, without debate. Bad the Government, which has decided to accelerate a legislative agenda for interests more particular than general.
The different spokespersons are wrong, who make statements so thick and risque that the rest of us can only turn off the television and stop reading the newspapers. Polarizing that it is a gerund. Wrong language installed. When everything is coup, nothing is. When nothing matters, it ends up not mattering at all.
Bad for the precedent that leaves in the future. Who will agree to what?
But above all, bad for all of us, for the group of citizens of the country: weaker institutions, more polarized politics.
If 2023 were not an election year, we might think that the last weeks of 2022 were politically isolated episodes. Almost like the three Wise Men, who come and go, once a year. I am afraid, however, that at least until May everything will be as if these three kings of the near West had come to stay and without gifts.
