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Once it’s coincidence, twice coincidence, three…
The chain of corruption cases seems to have accustomed us to stories about influence peddling, embezzlement or bribery. We have assimilated and standardized this situation of abnormality in a system that claims to be democratic and have different counterweights and preventive measures.
Corruption cases seem to crop up like mushrooms. In the last decade we have gotten used to hearing cases like the Gürtel, the Punic, the ERE, the Villarejo case and now a new one has been added: the mediator case.
In this latest scandal, due to the information handled and investigated, the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes and other individuals like Antonio Navarro Tacoronte o Francisco Espinosa Navas, retired general of the Civil Guard, they could have been promising privileges in terms of public contracts to businessmen, in exchange for sums of money.
A flawed and permissive system
Regardless of the case in question or the party of one sign or another involved, what seems clear and problematic is the constant. All these cases cannot be justified as isolated acts, committed by a few black sheep from the flock.
Power and influence have the ability to corrupt and tempt even the purest soul. He Rule of law and the separation of powers their root causes were mistrust in power and the protection of our rights.
However, these mechanisms do not seem sufficient to stop this pandemic. Especially in a system where the interferences made by the political parties in all institutions are constant, weakening such division: the struggle to control the General Council of the Judiciary or the constitutional Court are examples of this.
The electoral promises were forgotten in the rallies
In addition, the vices of the system and its members are not only in media cases, in which large sums of money are exchanged and immoral attitudes are shown. the famous revolving doors, by which our administrators and leaders circulate when leaving the institutions to go to certain companies, have an influence on the development of the measures that are approved and executed.
It seems unlikely that by leaving it in the hands of those who have become corrupt or are likely to do so, they can put the brakes on. We must be the ones who press and demand each time more transparency, more accessibility, more direct intervention. And not only every four years, feeling comforted by promises and programs that include ending the corruption and bad practices.
For years they have been promising us a purification of the system during the electoral period, however, according to the latest 2022 corruption perception rankingprepared by the organization Transparency International, Spain is the second consecutive year that descends in the classification.
These data are a simple reflection that in Spain things in terms of corruption and transparency are not being done well. That once again, those electoral promises were forgotten in the rallies.
Despite everything, we have become accustomed to this scenario, the reiteration of these facts have made you assume that corruption is inherent to politics. Nothing scandalizes us anymore, nor makes us take to the streets.
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