We all know that politics is a struggle for power and is governed by the principle "I'll take you out so I can put myself in." But democracies seemed destined to be a ritual with rules of respect for one's adversary and responsibility to the citizenry to limit the delusions of the will to power. Given the spectacle that politics offers us day after day, which in Spain has reached delirious levels in the single-issue offensive by the People's Party (PP) against the Socialist government, in which the debate is not about proposals and ideas but simply about accusations with which to disqualify the adversary—that is, without any distinction between truth and gamesmanship, and therefore without the democratic framework—it becomes alarming.

En Comú publicly positioned themselves as government allies in the vote on the budget, but the in-depth analysis of the votes in this parliament done by ARA indicates that, in practice and beyond the declarations of intentions, they were already a preferential partner. Pere Aragonès's executive has passed 21 votes on decrees and bills this legislature, and in 17 it has done so with En Comú's endorsement –four of which were needed abstentions–, ahead of the PSC –13, three of them needed abstentions– and the CUP –9–, in third place.

The massive administration of vaccines against covid is an extraordinary opportunity to get out of the underground in which we have had to live for the last year. The vaccination of the entire population will not be immediate, nor the mental liberation after months of uncertainty, illness, restrictions of freedoms and moral and political impoverishment.