In Spain, even what the government is interested in no longer works

Then, logical frustration of the 5,000 candidates for positions which had not been offered for 17 years. The wholesale resignation of the responsible court. The new call is November 2 (in the Catholic calendar, a day dedicated to prayer for those waiting in purgatory).

The fact undoubtedly goes beyond the anecdotal. And those who, naturally, see in all this mess the sign of the deficiencies of public television, in the very structure of which they notice signs of ossification, excessive politicization and lack of control which make it prone to massages and There is no shortage of trial and error. which makes it deficient government television.

Those who propose a radical reform, or even the abolition of RTVE, have no shortage of arguments. Serve the most recent:

Barely four days ago, the regency of Cascajosa Design (whose tortuous appointment dates back six months), who postponed the vote on his continuation in office due to “regulatory problems” linked to the request for a secret vote from one of the directors.

And Cascajosa applies very effective management and, with a single call to his mother, he emphasizes the need to The revoltthe program that everyone’s television was broadcasting David Broncano compete in a much more progressive way with Pablo Motorcycles and their anti-government outrages.

And yet, the debate over whether to reform RTVE to make it fairer and less like what we are seeing these months, or to consider the effort impossible and close it (an effort, on the other hand, quite frankly), continues to drag on. the side of optimism.

The problem is not just the failure of the appeal, nor whether or not the national station is designed to serve certain interests. But In Spain, more and more, even what interests them does not work.

So, this week we read that the Treasury (one of the last truly functional bastions of the Administration, obviously) has attributed the mass disappearance of public contract award records to a technological update of the website . Or that the government is not entirely clear on the number and budget allocated to “purple dots”.

Anyone who cultivates a certain cynicism about self-defense would expect these inefficiencies in everything else. And no one will be surprised at this point that digitalization and teleworking have opened new avenues to administrative dysfunction. But the resources that discursively and financially support the government itself are also failing. underlines the anomie and disorder that govern us.

It is the portrait of a weak Statewhose advisors sweat hard to pave the way for stability in Europe, and have no problem negotiating regional deficit levels in order to continue ruling another day. But the policy of denationalization is accompanied by a worsening of the crisis in the state apparatus.

Our state is fully capable of imposing a tax or banning e-cigarettes, but almost incapable of legislating or governing. So fill that void with propaganda.

This situation creates widespread discouragement and makes ridiculous the far-reaching reforms proposed these days, such as the four-day workday or other proposals aimed at transforming this lame state into an entrepreneurial state. Ultimately, errejonist fiscal patriotism (“the country is a public hospital”) suffers the same fate as the constitutional patriotism of yesterday and today.

Pray topical quote from Goethe that injustice is preferable to disorder. But we find that in most cases they are one and the same thing. 5,000 naysayers checked it out the other day, and soon we will all realize.