Pedro Sánchez is expected to propose a series of measures to combat corruption. We'll see. There's a danger of approaching the phenomenon as if it were a problem of greed or lack of integrity on the part of various politicians or officials, given that the proliferation of cases is due to a combination of factors: the long-standing culture of corruption that has characterized Spanish (and Catalan) politics during long periods of non-democracy, and oligarchies due to the prevailing neoliberal economic model—which has forged a series of counter-values that make it more efficient to accept a certain degree of transgression if it acts as a lever for material progress.

Commedia dell'arte: improvised street performance. Arte here means a profession and commedia is what actors improvise on stage at they perform. Each piece is different, the authors of the play are the same people who perform it and the characters are more or less always the same.