There was a time when when politicians did not know how to solve a matter they created a commission. It was the way to block the problems from the power, without the opposition being able to reply because it involved them in the search for the solution. The first to see that the commissions were a scam was Napoleon, who wrote: “If you want something done, appoint someone responsible; if you want something to be delayed forever, appoint a commission”. But the commissions continue to have prestige: it is enough to see that independence has asked for three investigative commissions, approved by Congress, on Operation Catalunya, the 17-A attacks in Barcelona and the Pegasus case. These commissions appear in the Constitution and are designed to look for political responsibilities, but experience teaches us that it will be difficult to draw clear water from them, although they contribute to the public spectacle.

The latest discovery to try to unblock agreements or pacts are mediators. Mediators, speakers or verifiers, which are terms that each of the parties uses at will to add or remove essence. At the moment, a mediator has been appointed to act as a notary of the agreements between the PSOE and JxCat, another is expected to be present at the negotiations between the Spanish Government and the Generalitat and a few days ago we saw that the popular they point to this figure – in this case appointed by the EU -, which Pedro Sánchez accepted after the meeting with Alberto Núñez Feijóo in order to renew the General Council of the Judiciary.

All this allows us to deduce that Spanish politics is developed under the sign of mistrust. Aristophanes, who was a Greek comedian who knew how to influence Athenian politics, said that mistrust is the mother of security and in this sense it was a safe value to govern. But the truth is that this inability to understand each other without an arbiter in front only increases citizens’ mistrust of the political class. Any day, the parties will ask for the VAR to be there, like in football, to justify themselves in front of their own, when they think they have sneaked a goal through the box.