When Zapatero´s government felt the markets and EU bearing down hard over a year ago, it embraced austerity and adopted various means that a fragile economic environment called for.
The last-minute effort, typical of students who study the night before, resulted in welcome albeit tardy progress. The government confronted reckless spending, reduced redundant programs and slowed retirement rates by reforming pension fund practices.
Except for sudden and effective mandates, there is a lot of governmental backwardness. For the collective bargaining negotiations, all that is left is some parliamentary paperwork, as with the pension funds, that foreshadows the PP´s rejection.
Others, like the new gaming law, suspiciously advanced support of Loterías imminent partial placement. A government that sinned effortlessly when it still hadn?t lost total credibility and wasted its courses of action isn´t going to become a disciplined legislative body now that it has its footing and is halfway out.
This zombie government dreams about reformist dillydallying. It does not have time to launch development measurements that take time to develop and implement more time than remains. And the newly appointed Rubalcaba isn´t interested in wearing out the electorate with new sacrifices.
The normative impasse will last until the new courts are constituted. So before elections are celebrated, lost time should be regained.
