Leaving is never easy, especially when no one walks you to the door. Public positions accumulate small (and large) vanities and the day one leaves the official office one has the feeling that something of him (or her) remains inside. If, furthermore, one believes that he did what he had to do, one misses explanations. But, it is often forgotten that when one (or one) assumes a public position he or she condemns oneself to being public property. And everyone has an opinion about the cessation, because politics is not an exact science. “Sometimes you have to trick the balance so that the measurement is exact,” Javier Bardem proclaims in The Good Patron, recognizing that decisions may not be fair, but this does not mean that they are not necessary. In any case, in all cases, when the time comes to quit, there is no need to slam doors or launch a rant. It is neither understood nor corresponds.
Irene Montero did not pay much attention to the instruction manual of the minister’s dignity, which the first thing it establishes is that the day he takes office he must know that he carries his expiration date on his back. He is mistaken who thinks that the position is his property and that it is an injustice to dismiss him when he has not yet finished his work. But Montero left at ease on the day when all she had to do was thank her collaborators, wish the incoming minister luck and pass on the ministerial portfolio with a good face. The former Minister of Equality proclaimed loudly, addressing Ione Belarra, general secretary of Podemos, that Pedro Sánchez was firing them for having done what they said they would do: put the institutions at the service of the advancement of feminist rights. And addressing her successor, Ana Redondo, he asked her to have enough courage to make the 40- to 50-year-old friends of the President of the Government uncomfortable. Nobody heard any self-criticism.
It was neither the time for recriminations nor for advice. Thomas Jefferson, who was the third president of the United States, already warned us in his day that no one leaves office with the same prestige and respect that brought him there. But at least it’s appreciated that you hide it. And that it is impeccable.
