Absolute majorities have long since passed into history in Spain. Political atomization has promoted coalition governments and has substituted the roller for the culture of the pact. Our young democracy was not used to these practices and, perhaps for this reason, we often see that governments that are based on weak minorities insist on promoting far-reaching changes without the desirable consensus. This habit can lead to a short-term political triumph, but it leads to conflict in the medium and long term. Citizens are tired of seeing how laws are approved today and changed again tomorrow when the government changes. We have experienced it with the eight education laws approved in Spain in the last forty years of democracy. It goes out to a change every five years, with which there are students who have suffered several regulations during their school life. The same has happened with labor reforms. They have been modified four times and there have been more than fifty tweaks. Not to mention the Penal Code and its more than thirty reforms. It is true that the laws must adapt to social reality, but most of the time the changes are motivated by the party's electoral gains. Being the latter lawful, it is not at all practical that the duration of the regulations be linked to the political color of the tenants of the current government because it creates legal insecurity, citizen dizziness and public waste of time and money that it costs to dismantle what the government did. former executive and set up a different thing whose days are numbered depending on the result of the polls.
The structural changes that mark the future of cities and countries should necessarily have a much larger majority than the simple one that grants one more vote than the rival, although it entails an effort of negotiation and empathy with respect to those who do not think the same. The synthesis that emerges from consensus will always be better than the fact that a good part of society perceives the changes as an imposition. This way of acting would be applied both in the City Council that intends to impose a city model without having a large majority and in higher governments. If it were so, we would live more peacefully.
