Màxim Huerta, the controversial, shallow and rude culture minister, has lasted seven days in the role, including the weekend. He was fully pushed aside after it was learnt that he had evaded more than 218,000 euros in taxes between the years 2006 and 2008, a very bad issue at a time when a new government has started its voyage by giving lessons in political ethics and commitment to promises. Huerta's resignation or firing, something which only those involved know, is very symptomatic of these new times, but is also the reflection of a Spain in low hours when a minister lasts seven days, its football coach Julen Lopetegui is fired 48 hours before its World Cup starts and Iñaki Urdangarin, son-in-law of one king, brother-in-law of another and husband of an infanta, is told by a Palma court that he has five days to present himself at prison. Spain is a boat with many leaks, however much better it's disguised by Pedro Sànchez's smile, intuition and speed than Mariano Rajoy's stiffness, black and white and press conferences by TV.
The fired minister has gone, kicking the door on his way and seeming more like the Twitter user who doesn't restrain themselves for anything than the incumbent of the office he occupied, properly, for some 150 hours. Saying that "innocence doesn't count for anything against this pack of hounds" or "the noise of all this pack of hounds" as the reason for his resignation is not only a lie, but someone could easily remind him of his ongoing participation in the morning star of Spanish sensationalist television, El programa de Ana Rosa. But a window display government like Pedo Sánchez's, whose parts don't have to match up, dramatic events being what matter, has such qualities. They're the problems of putting together a cabinet as if it were a sticker album.
Sánchez has to be thanked for having resolved his first crisis in just hours. But careful: in the morning, neither the firee, nor the head of the executive was contemplating him going. It was a controlled crisis that would dissipate. Only the strength of the social networks forced the prime minister and the minister's hands. And as Sánchez is a political survivor, he even boasted about how quickly he did it, skipping over the mistake of the nomination. And this frivolousness from both sides has allowed them to get into the Guinness records quicker than any minister or prime minister before. Never had a prime minister created a crisis so quickly and never had a minister lasted less. His settlement doesn't reach 1,200 euros in salary, nor a thousand in compensation. From that point of view, a minister who fits in this new generation getting by on a thousand euros a month.