The new attorney general was met with hostility.

It's polite to say hello and goodbye, but some newspapers forgot this basic measure of civility and good manners yesterday. Spain has a new attorney general, and after the saga involving her predecessor, it might seem that the change would be a guaranteed headline-grabbing success. Not so: in right-wing newspapers, now that García Ortiz is out of the picture, the topic has lost its appeal.ABCFor example, it doesn't even dedicate a single line to it on the front page. The reason It barely dedicates a small module to her, without a photo, with the headline "Teresa Peramato, a progressive prosecutor to appease the institution." The World Yes, they do include a picture, so the reader can get to know her, although they couldn't have chosen a worse image. The woman appears with her handbag about to fall off her sleeve, walking somewhat crookedly and laboriously picking up a bulky coat. If they did this to Ayuso, they'd be without advertising for three and a half years. "A loyal follower of García Ortiz, new attorney general," the headline reads. They deny her some of the traits that define her—like her experience or her feminist character—and reduce her to a mere appendage of her predecessor. I suppose that, semiotically, they chose the photograph of her awkward and ungainly gait to convey that old Castilian saying that He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.. OK Diario, He was firing straight at the gun: "Sánchez's new prosecutor defended the Montero Law, which released rapists." Here, the appendage that doesn't even deserve to be named—another form of contempt—is already directly attributed to the Socialist leader.

Even before beginning his term, a state institution is met with this hostile and chaotic reception. Later, they'll write inflammatory headlines lamenting the attacks on judges and the lack of respect for the judiciary, but that glaring flaw in their own eyes will go unnoticed.