Given the successive disasters that we have experienced after DANA, it is logical that there are those who want to distance themselves from politics and politicians. It is also logical that one wonders where these people come from, how they come to occupy their positions or why these positions fluctuate and pass from one hand to another in a manner as random as it is inefficient. It is logical that it generates perplexity that there is not a cascade of resignations in Valencia, that the Popular Party is cynically debating between burying or protecting Mazón and that Mazón is thinking of sacrificing part of his government to avoid his own responsibilities. But, beyond all these current reflections and the more or less congenital problems of the political class, what there is no choice but to rethink is the way in which co-governance works in Spain.
The management of DANA, poor management or the absence of management, has laid bare the shortcomings and deficiencies of an autonomous State that was the transactional fruit of a historical moment now perished. The anomalous scenario into which it has led, strangely situated between decentralization and recentralization (declaration of emergency of national interest or state of alarm), indicates, among other things, that the administrative architecture of the State does not have the features required by the addressing certain problems. Either the central State is strengthened or federalism is intensified by redefining the articulation between the different political entities. And I’m afraid that we are not settled in one place or the other.
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