Late last Tuesday, teacher and friend Irene Correas Sosa and I presented to us at Fundación Civismo a story in which we propose to include in the public debate a concept that, since it was new, began to weigh its importance. It refers to a horizontal subsidiary.
This concept is based on abandoning, whenever possible, the territorial verticality of power (state, regional, local administration) for a non-territorial subsidiary that is not based on efficiency. The teaching methodology you will use will be that of the best schools, whether public or private.
A tax structure to emulate will be the most efficient administration. Where private initiative is more effective, it will compete with state initiative, the public will vote, as in school “vouchers”.
It is decided, briefly expressed, to put the welfare of citizens, not the state, at the center of public administration. This is what is usually called the “competition in the scales”, which in the translation of the castellan means the competition after starting the meditation. The highest mark is the chosen one.
For this alternative, which works in some areas in some countries, there is a result, three circumstances must be considered in particular: citizens’ information, transparency and responsibility for the facts of the proceedings and above all if public-private competence is allowed.
Spanish society has adopted the belief that people are incapable of being responsible for our choices
An impossible dream in Spain, a country that has been going on for years without preconditions, where the executive avoids parliamentary scrutiny and where public information is corrected only through media pressure, is decided, they do not meet the minimum conditions under which a citizen can compare, vote and expect.
A country where various family members of the president and people in his political circle are implicated or under investigation or in prison and to facilitate the work of the UCO and the judges they are challenged and challenged for work without respecting the rules of the democratic game.
But not if it’s just the government. Spanish society has adopted the belief that people are incapable of being responsible for our choices. We are just as elected, but at the bottom, because “private” is obviously intrinsically evil and “public” is by definition morally superior.
In this way, our fathers are not the best protectors of our children, neither of our children know which foods are in which foods. All that is judicial must be forbidden, without waiting for an election, individuals decide to find the best and choose the worst.
Don’t let us know if we don’t understand each other. Just as the same person who holds public office has not been a private citizen once in a while.
Institutional independence is not a technocratic solution
Claiming to develop and support civil society in Spain with these mimbras is illusory. Cases.
That’s some hope. There is a small but very powerful group of people dedicated to dismantling minds, analyzing public contracts, commissions for colors, money from depilfarrado, with the help of new technologies and a successful coup.
Jaime Gómez-Obregón deserves a reward for the work he does himself. And after Jaime, the rest of us have converted to a new fiscal citizen that shows us that the government and its tentacles no longer want us.
I cannot ignore the economists and journalists who analyze economic and political data and put liars, reality falsifiers and corruption on their pages. These citizens try their hand at civil society. It’s not much, but it shows that the problem is not civil incompetence, but failure of political will to get things done.
Meanwhile, the government follows suit, apparently close to reality. This week, one of the economic news was the proposal of María Jesús Montero, Minister of Hacienda, to nominate Inés Olondriz as president of AIReF, the institution that has to tax government accounts and which is responsible, among other things, for assessing the sustainability of pensions.
The terrible thing is that Inés Olondríz is Montero’s direct subordinate and she is the one who suggested the nickname “Catalan Quita” that hurts so many Spanish citizens.
In particular, your former AIReF president, Cristina Herrero, has publicly expressed her wish that her son or sister not continue in government, as it seems “inadmissible to move from the political sphere to the AIReF presidency”. These are very reasonable statements from one of the people who tried to maintain the independence so necessary in the derecho state and in any healthy democracy that is dear.
AIReF is not an administrative office. This is a technical counterweight created precisely for the evaluation of the government without interference. If the principal proceeds directly from the executive to what is to be examined, the issue is not personal. It is structural. Independence must be guaranteed and transformed into a formality.
Institutional independence is not a technocratic solution. It is the condition that separates the derecho state from the loyalty system. When control depends on power, the citizen needs to be sujeto and becomes a spectator. And the audience group cannot decide the content. Only one can applaud or reject.
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