The theory has a name and everyone knows it: equality before the law. And that includes former Spanish government presidents, of course. When justice indicts someone who has been at the very top of one of the three branches of the State, it means the system doesn't flinch and it works. And to indict a former president, the evidence should be solid.
The problem is the use of the conditional. Everyone also knows why: because alongside the presumption of innocence, in Spain the presumption of "whoever can do something, should do it"; of "who is the Public Prosecutor dependent on?"; that of a high court chamber that is politically controlled "through the back door", or that of "these are the ones who said 'Spain is robbing us'" is in effect.
For months now, the rescue of the company Plus Ultra by Sánchez's government had been circling Zapatero, and now he has been summoned to testify. But, how many cases of all kinds have not circled former presidents? And it turns out that the only one who will have to testify as an investigated person is Zapatero? It is impossible not to think that 36 could have come up again, not in reference to the fateful year in the history of Spain that Zapatero politically stirred up and which pitted him against half the country, but to the roulette number that Núñez used to explain why he didn't believe in arbitrary refereeing decisions.
The Catalan process popularized the expression lawfare and, after the pardons and amnesty, the independence movement warned the socialists a thousand times that they would be next, especially those closest to Sánchez. You just need to review the list. With this background, no one can be sure anymore that justice still wears a blindfold.
