Where do we set the bar?

María Gámez resigned on Wednesday from her place as director of the Civil Guard to defend her honor and that of the armed institute because of the judicial imputation of her husband, Juan Carlos Martínez, within the case of the Andalusian EROs .

María Gámez resigned on Wednesday from her place as director of the Civil Guard to defend her honor and that of the armed institute because of the judicial imputation of her husband, Juan Carlos Martínez, within the case of the Andalusian EROs . The Minister of the Inside, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, gave it for instance of "democratic prophylaxis", and the resigned director assured that it was the one resolution she may take to guard her household.

Gámez's resolution makes us surprise the place we should always set the bar for this prophylaxis. Within the occasion that a excessive political official has a son or daughter, brother or sister, father or mom, husband or spouse who're concerned in a court docket case, he can be required to resign and go away' n at your own home? The exemplary method with which one desires to behave on many events in Spanish public life units limits that deserve a extra serene reflection. The events which can be in opposition take any excuse to demand resignations in these instances of household relationships after which, when they're in authorities, they're the primary to attempt to justify them. Ultimately, public opinion can also be cruel, and the extent of demand for terminations is ever greater. It's value remembering that imputation doesn't but imply judicial conviction.

If we apply this technique of measurement, any further any excessive public official should not solely be accountable for his efficiency and that of his crew, however may additionally be affected by what a few of his direct kin do. Final December, Ignacio Manrique de Lara, husband of the primary vice-president of the central authorities, Nadia Calviño, needed to resign from his place as coordinator of Business Technique in Nationwide Heritage, regardless of having obtained the perfect rating within the public name. The marketing campaign he was the topic of to occupy this place led him to resign to keep away from the erosion of his spouse.

It's the regulation of the pendulum that typically makes us go from one excessive to the opposite, and it lacks frequent sense to grasp that the kin of politicians and insurance policies even have the best to have their lives.