The carrot of the three fifth parts

Right-wing newspapers have been repeating a mantra for months, with pieces marking a milestone to be achieved. It is necessary to obtain three-fifths of the seats in Congress between the PP and VOX, they say, to build a majority broad enough to allow for the renewal of bodies such as the Constitutional Court or the board of directors of RTVE without having to reach an agreement with the PSOE. These are unashamed slogans, which involve openly acknowledging the will to impose their policies with a steamroller. Behind these reinforced majorities provided for by law lies the healthy idea of forcing consensus to avoid sectarianism. Maximum cynicism, then, from the media that are now setting this goal for themselves, when they have spent years talking about the fallacy of independent judges and passing off any legitimate criticism as anti-democratic attacks. It becomes obvious that they did not want to defend the separation of powers. The only thing they wanted, quite simply, was to be able to occupy all the levers of power, from the first robe to the last armchair. Editorials that scolded the Constitutional Court for having a (let's call it) progressive majority will now look favorably upon the fact that, in the name of saving Spain, the supposed center-right of the PP corners the PSOE in these negotiations and agrees with the ultra-right Vox on a purge of the high court.

A nice legislature, the one configured by this script. Radiotelevisión Española has certainly fallen into an uncomfortable pro-government bias. However, at the very least, it has the excuse that it had to compensate for the landscape of private media, in which Quintana, Griso, Jiménez, Motos, or Abad tip the scales to the other side, and with such force. Let us pray that the PP and Vox do not have carte blanche –or blue– to do as they please with public television, or I fear that we will soon see La Revuelta fall from the schedule so that El Alzamiento, presented by Javier Negre, can premiere.