Without Law there is no democracy
In a recent article, Victor Lapuente said that the biggest political divide today is not between left and right but between “legalists and democratists.” The first is true: Junts and the PNV, which have refused to agree with the PP but agree to support a PSOE and Sumar government, are right-wing. Right-wing and oligarchic, because they have the richest voters in those autonomous communities and have directed their destinies for most of the democracy – and xenophobic, because they only consider those who defend their exclusionary nationalism to be true Catalans or Basques. The second is already more debatable. The legalists, according to Lapuente, are the ones who put respect for the Law before the will of the ballot box, while the democratists prioritize that will. Although the author may only intend to make a sociological description, the distinction recalls the political discourse that opposes Law and Democracy. It is the same idea of those who criticize the “judicialization of politics” when a politician who has violated the Law is prosecuted or when a Law is challenged before the Constitutional Court. The same is maintained by Sanchez Cuenca when he speaks of “conflict between the principle of legality and the democratic principle.” […]