Spain in freedom?

As important as the 9-year disqualification sentence for Pedro Sánchez's brother has been the Spanish government's response, which has considered it a political sentence. Perhaps it is no longer surprising, because months ago Spanish socialists crossed a line they probably thought they would never have to cross, they, who were a state party, and dared to consider themselves victims of "lawfare" for the first time, but for the executive power to consider that the judicial power is prevaricating (even if it does not say so in so many words) indicates at what height the democratic quality of the State is flying.

Yes, of course, in Catalonia we are not new to this. In fact, the ruling that the CJEU may issue on Thursday considering the amnesty to be in accordance with Community law will not mean that President Puigdemont can return to Catalonia without fear of being arrested, because the Spanish justice system continues to block the application of an amnesty law approved by the legislative power more than two years ago.

All this happens as Spain commemorates 50 years of democracy (next June 15 will mark 50 years since the first elections) with the solemn slogan of "Spain in freedom", which now turns out to be too much of a phrase for such a thin reality, and which is very far from what we imagined a European democracy worthy of the name could be. And this, without even having seen what the PP-Vox duo is capable of doing in terms of freedoms if they ever govern. In Catalonia, more than one organization is already preparing contingency plans for what may happen. This, like the fact that Carles Puigdemont cannot return today, is not called freedom. If anything, it is supervised freedom.