Post by account_disabled on Feb 28, 2024 10:08:02 GMT
The quality of democracy is measured, among other parameters, by the solidity and responsibility of the opposition. Many years ago, a French constitutionalist, Jacques Gicquel, said that the Government and the opposition are understanding partners, like a couple, and their code of conduct is: 1) competition for the conquest of power; 2) tolerance in the exercise of this; and 3) alternation or change of the political majority (Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques, Paris, 1993, p. 196). This idea from the Sorbonne professor comes to mind when we observe the opposition behavior of the Popular Party and its President, Pablo Casado , a behavior that is partly erratic and partly destructive and when we say destructive it is not destructive of the Government or the parties that support it. form, but destructive of the democratic system. Let's start with the topic that is most topical today. The Popular Party does not want to support the labor reform that the Government has agreed with all social partners (employers and unions.
The agreed reform, like all important political agreements, surely does not satisfy anyone and there will be employer sectors that consider that it is too favorable to workers and union sectors that say the opposite. The nationalists don't like it either because, with their usual advantageousness, they want to continue curtailing state powers to create de Malta Phone Number facto their state structures. But the fact that no one is excited and (almost) everyone supports it is an indication of consensus and understanding. In this framework, only Casado and his party are frontally opposed and announce their usual weapons of combat: voting against the validation of the Decree-Law when it is proposed in a few days in the Congress of Deputies, raising (of course) a appeal for unconstitutionality in the Constitutional Court, warn that when they govern they will repeal the reform and (new tactic since 2020) denounce the measure before the community institutions. Just as it was about achieving peace in Catalonia (and therefore the pardon against the authors of the autumn 2017 rebellion), this agreement brings labor peace, a peace that was broken by the Rajoy Government in .
If the CEOE assumes it, it cannot be thought that it is a revenge measure approved under the protection of the current parliamentary majority. But Casado doesn't care about labor peace and the interests of the businessmen represented by the CEOE. Casado only wants war and prefers that unions, businessmen and the Government be in conflict rather than labor peace that will make the Spanish economy more productive. And since Casado understands that opposition is not about preparing tomorrow's alternative, but about hindering any action by the Government, at the end of 2021 we were able to see how he supported in the Senate a banal amendment to the State's General Budget bill on minority languages with the only so that this project would not be definitively approved in the Senate, but would have to be voted on again in Congress. Apart from the ridiculousness of supporting an initiative on minority languages that is directly opposed to popular politics in Catalonia (where Casado's party takes advantage of the complex linguistic issue to add fuel to the fire), Casado has achieved nothing, because support for the Budgets of was already quite committed, but, with a childish gesture, Casado believed that it was harming the Government. The problem is that Casado only lives for that. Already into the new year, the Popular Party, led by its Spokesperson in Congress, Mrs. Gamarra , has once again attempted another banal confrontation with the Government.
The agreed reform, like all important political agreements, surely does not satisfy anyone and there will be employer sectors that consider that it is too favorable to workers and union sectors that say the opposite. The nationalists don't like it either because, with their usual advantageousness, they want to continue curtailing state powers to create de Malta Phone Number facto their state structures. But the fact that no one is excited and (almost) everyone supports it is an indication of consensus and understanding. In this framework, only Casado and his party are frontally opposed and announce their usual weapons of combat: voting against the validation of the Decree-Law when it is proposed in a few days in the Congress of Deputies, raising (of course) a appeal for unconstitutionality in the Constitutional Court, warn that when they govern they will repeal the reform and (new tactic since 2020) denounce the measure before the community institutions. Just as it was about achieving peace in Catalonia (and therefore the pardon against the authors of the autumn 2017 rebellion), this agreement brings labor peace, a peace that was broken by the Rajoy Government in .
If the CEOE assumes it, it cannot be thought that it is a revenge measure approved under the protection of the current parliamentary majority. But Casado doesn't care about labor peace and the interests of the businessmen represented by the CEOE. Casado only wants war and prefers that unions, businessmen and the Government be in conflict rather than labor peace that will make the Spanish economy more productive. And since Casado understands that opposition is not about preparing tomorrow's alternative, but about hindering any action by the Government, at the end of 2021 we were able to see how he supported in the Senate a banal amendment to the State's General Budget bill on minority languages with the only so that this project would not be definitively approved in the Senate, but would have to be voted on again in Congress. Apart from the ridiculousness of supporting an initiative on minority languages that is directly opposed to popular politics in Catalonia (where Casado's party takes advantage of the complex linguistic issue to add fuel to the fire), Casado has achieved nothing, because support for the Budgets of was already quite committed, but, with a childish gesture, Casado believed that it was harming the Government. The problem is that Casado only lives for that. Already into the new year, the Popular Party, led by its Spokesperson in Congress, Mrs. Gamarra , has once again attempted another banal confrontation with the Government.