Anyone who has children – I have three daughters – knows what it is to love unconditionally. Even a character as unsympathetic to others as Donald Trump demonstrates daily the importance of family. He has not hesitated to favor sons, daughters, sons-in-law, and young people with positions and contracts. In our country, the cases involving part of the Pujol family precipitated the downfall of a true statesman who did not deserve the end he had. Zapatero could not find a better digital marketing expert than his daughters. In the court and capital, José María Aznar, when he could, did: and his daughter's husband became stuffed with lobbying for Endesa or Telefónica. In France, in 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy's son, 23 years old and without finishing his studies, was proposed to preside over EPAD, the public body that manages La Défense, the financial district of Paris. And so on, as many as you wish.Ripoll, which is not Barcelona, nor Madrid, nor Washington nor Paris, has also shown us how far a mother's love (and the discredit of politics!) can go. I can only describe as endearing the performance by Sílvia Orriols adorning herself with a local police t-shirt to explain, before the council, that working as a temporary in Ripoll's security forces had been her daughter's lifelong dream, a dream that was now coming true. A mother cannot destroy such a precise and well-articulated vocational horizon: local police, temporary contract, Ripoll. She cannot do it even if it means not sleeping, drenched in anxiety for the girl's safety, an adolescent on patrol through the urban jungle.

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.