What will take a long time, Mazón's statement before the judge?
Mazón reappeared in our lives this Monday when he went to testify in Congress. While I was listening to him, I was thinking that I already had enough of seeing him in interviews and investigative committees. That all this Mazón on tourIt offers us nothing new, only causing the pain and outrage we already know. For the health of the democratic system, it is imperative that, once and for all, we see Mazón in the only place he should be: before the judge. And that no time passes between his testimony and the verdict. Anything else is just noise.
Mazón behaved today as what he is: a political illiterate who never imagined he would get this far and who, on the one day he had to rise to the occasion, failed miserably. He even claimed that on the morning of the 29th, no one knew there might be tragedies, that at night he didn't know people were drowning, and that the Education Minister who didn't suspend classes is the best possible minister because "he saved us from the imposition of the Catalan Countries." You be the judge.
But the members of parliament haven't lived up to expectations either, especially Gabriel Rufián, who went there to vent his outrage and make clips for social media, as if those of us watching weren't outraged ourselves. We don't expect members of parliament to behave like the victims' families on the first anniversary, nor to act as if they're the most aggrieved party. This doesn't make them more empathetic, braver, or more fearless. We expect them to question, that is, to ask and follow up after hearing the answers. Between the outrage of some and the lies of others, Mazón's appearance ended up being like a reheated outpouring of emotions that led nowhere. We've spent a year demanding his resignation. How much longer must we wait for him to be brought to justice?