We already know who M. Rajoy was

And also M.R., and el Asturiano, and el Barbas, nicknames that refer to the underworld and were all ways of referring to Mariano Rajoy. The response that the current People's Party gives to the facts emerging these days in the trial taking place in the National Court, and which its appalling spokesperson Miguel Tellado repeats every day, is that all of that happened a long time ago and that the current leaders of the party have nothing to do with it. The argument doesn't hold up much, starting with the fact that the People's Party still has its headquarters in a building that was paid for in black (Pablo Casado, if you remember, was eliminated for having acknowledged this fact, which is also recorded in a judicial ruling). The Kitchen plot includes another especially serious element: the patriotic police, with episodes as stimulating as that of the assailant who broke into the Bárcenas family's home disguised as a priest. And if we focus on the investigating judge García Castellón, we should also talk about a patriotic judiciary, that is: police officers and judges at the service of the People's Party's interests.According to the sentence in the Gürtel case, the proven trail of the existence of the People's Party's black fund also did not begin with Rajoy or Bárcenas, but dates back at least to 1989. Everything indicates that corruption, in the PP, is a structural element, a tool that keeps the organization running (which is why the same sentence in the Gürtel case spoke of a criminal organization) and that the party has been acting corruptly over the years and decades, as treasurers, general secretaries, presidents, etc. succeeded each other.Luis Bárcenas is someone who still speaks of off-the-books accounting with considerable aplomb and who in the good old days also had a nickname, Luis el Cabrón. But the truth is that, just with what he declared this Monday (after a thirteen-year delay: slow justice is always bad justice), many political parties would tremble or be forced to disappear. For example, Convergència, which was the pillar of Catalan politics, had to close shop and face a difficult recomposition, split between Junts and Pdecat, due to corruption. Its partner, Unió, became extinct for the same reason. It is true that most of those who got rich have found a way to get away with it, but the parties disappeared.The People's Party, on the other hand, remains standing, and will continue to do so, because (unlike the PSOE, no matter how hard it tries) it is a truly systemic piece of Spanish power. A large part of the Ibex-35 and the banking system, the judiciary, and most of the most influential media outlets revolve around this party. It has even generated a second brand, Vox, which competes with it but at the same time props it up. Neither Kitchen nor Gürtel will bring down the PP, because there is always someone who needs something, and from this simple principle the PP has made a nation, a flag, and a way of understanding power.