Shepherd agreement, wolves dead | Spain

Even the most optimistic people (and there are some of us) couldn't have imagined it. The spiral of confrontation, the siege of power, the destructive strategist advertisement personam…maybe they will continue. But since Tuesday's pact on the judiciary They will have no moral credibility, no semblance of legitimacy, and will fit in with what is trending. This is not just about a festive gathering of shepherds, but about their agreement on the future and work: the victim is not the unprotected sheep, as the proverb says, but the threatening wolf and wolves, names that needless to say are.

He who makes an agreement wins, even if he does not achieve everything that is desired. Those who exclude themselves lose, because they are confronted with the triple essence of the democratic style (dialogue/negotiation/agreement) and uproot themselves from the great majority, as opposed to a war without dividends. Pedro Sánchez wins, through legal architect Félix Bolaños. Because it denies that it only grows in lawsuits and the downfall of others; because it channels a problem that has been entrenched for five years; and because he solves it immediately as he said complete the appointments that will replace the withered members of the General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ); then agree on legal reforms.

Feijóo also wins, through González-Pons, because he nourishes the illusion that many of us thought he had abandoned forever: the desire for a certain moderation, or at least deliberateness. Well, it symbolizes – finally! – that he rules the Madrid chainsaw ultra. Well, it hides the radical setback for his corporatist proposal that the judges and only they choose their officials: no agreement has been reached on the reform of the supply of positions, it is postponed on the calendar until the new CGPJ studies, compared to the European neighboring countries, buy a formula and sell it to Parliament. With a qualified majority of three-fifths there is an incentive for consensus. No one knows what the final alchemy will be.

The ugliness of the agreement is linked to its essential but infamous virtue: the announcement that the Constitutional Court is being promoted to the great mess of the Council, José Maria Macias, that lawyer from Cuatrecasas (a firm specialized in the borderline of questionable tax optimizations), who favors Federico Trillo in implicit threats, cold revenge, protection of assets and favors that must be returned with interest.

Of course, that pales in comparison to the enormous profits of society, defendants, vests, victims. The gains of Spanish democracy. That if the blockade were to continue (even if it were by the opposition), it would suffer a setback in the next rule of law report from the European Commission, sponsored by another major complication in the Strasbourg parliament. The proposal signed yesterday excels in avoiding this problem and its reputational and economic consequences. And for the improvements in incompatibilities, quarantines, requirements, and procedures that, in a quick diagonal read, seem more than respectable.

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