Leaving is never easy, especially when no one accompanies 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, moreover, one thinks that he did what he had to do, he is missing explanations. But, it is often forgotten that when one (or one) assumes a public position, one is condemned to become public property. And everyone has an opinion on the termination, since politics is not an exact science. “Sometimes you have to call the scales so that the measure is exact”, proclaims Javier Bardem in El buen patrón, acknowledging that the decisions may not be fair, but that does not mean that they are not necessary. In any case, in all cases, when the time comes for the cessation, there should be no knocking on the door, nor throwing any philippics. Neither is understood, nor does it correspond.
Irene Montero didn’t pay much attention to the minister’s dignity instruction manual, which first establishes that the day she takes office she must know that she has the expiration date on her back. Anyone who thinks that the position is their property and that it is an injustice to be dismissed when they have not yet finished their work is wrong. But Montero let off steam to his heart’s content on the day when he only had to thank his collaborators, wish the incoming minister good luck and hand over the portfolio of the department with a good face. The former Minister of Equality loudly proclaimed, addressing Ione Belarra, general secretary of Podemos, that Pedro Sánchez was kicking them out for doing what they said they would do: put the institutions at the service of the advancement of rights feminists And addressing his successor, Ana Redondo, he asked her to have enough courage to make the 40- to 50-year-old friends of the president of the Spanish Government uncomfortable. No one heard any self-criticism.
It was not the time for recriminations, nor for advice. Thomas Jefferson, who was the third president of the United States, warned us in his day that no one leaves office with the same prestige and respect with which they were brought there. But at least it’s appreciated that he hides it. And that it is impeccable.
