The Fundación Impulso y Cooperación was presented last Wednesday at the Congress of Deputies with the aim of defending democratic and constitutional values. José Domingo, a lawyer and former president of Impulso Ciudadano, leads this new project which seeks to support entities that defend individual and linguistic rights, as well as institutional neutrality.
According to Domingo, Spain currently has “a serious problem of articulation and cooperation between the different administrations of the State,” which is evident in disaster management and the deterioration of public services such as healthcare. The entity plans to prepare reports and evaluate risks to improve the system of good governance and denounce what they consider objectionable.
At this moment, there is a serious problem of articulation and cooperation between the different administrations of the State.
The foundation's president expressed concern over what he considers a clear intrusion of the Executive Power into the actions of the Judicial Power, as well as the routine use of decree laws as a governing formula, to the detriment of parliamentary debate. These anomalies, coupled with polarization, endanger the democratic system.
“"Nationalism is a problem for democracy worldwide, in all countries. We do not believe it serves to develop policies that favor the general interest."
Domingo also harshly criticized identity politics, pointing out that the linguistic situation in Catalonia's schools “has not improved at all, quite the opposite: it has worsened.” Furthermore, he described the proposal to transfer the management of all taxes to the Catalan Tax Agency as an “absolute nonsense,” arguing that it hinders fraud control and breaks the unity of the treasury.
