The 'Pedritos': eleven categories to pick Sánchez's worst minister
Eleven categories to award the worst minister: the satire of Spain's government reveals a cabinet where only seven names are recognisable.
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The 'Pedritos': the anti-Oscar that captures the anonymity of Spain's government
How many ministries does this government have? The question, posed as part of a satirical contest, sums up a growing unease: the feeling that much of the cabinet is interchangeable, invisible or downright dispensable.
An initiative dubbed the 'Pedritos' — a kind of reverse Oscar — proposes eleven categories to reward the worst of the Council of Ministers: from the most incompetent to the most cynical, not to mention the most irrelevant or the one who pays least attention to their duties. The stated aim is to 'help Pedro Sánchez' put together, in the final stretch of the term, a 'truly competent government'.
Ignorance as a data point
The exercise yields a curious thermometer: of the twenty-odd ministers, one observer admits recognising only seven. The rest are unknown to him. Sira Rego, the Youth and Children minister, is even described as an 'AI embedded in the Council of Ministers' because of her low profile.
The opposition, the best lifeline
Political irony completes the picture. 'Feijóo should be Pedro Sánchez's deputy prime minister', goes another of the remarks: nobody has done more to keep the prime minister at Moncloa than the opposition. A diagnosis that, amid the jokes, points to a real paradox of this term.
In the end, the awards decide nothing. But the list of categories says more than it seems: when public debate boils down to not knowing who holds which portfolio, the problem is not the contest, but the cabinet.
How many ministries does this government have? The question, posed as part of a satirical contest, sums up a growing unease: the feeling that much of the cabinet is interchangeable, invisible or downright dispensable.
An initiative dubbed the 'Pedritos' — a kind of reverse Oscar — proposes eleven categories to reward the worst of the Council of Ministers: from the most incompetent to the most cynical, not to mention the most irrelevant or the one who pays least attention to their duties. The stated aim is to 'help Pedro Sánchez' put together, in the final stretch of the term, a 'truly competent government'.
Ignorance as a data point
The exercise yields a curious thermometer: of the twenty-odd ministers, one observer admits recognising only seven. The rest are unknown to him. Sira Rego, the Youth and Children minister, is even described as an 'AI embedded in the Council of Ministers' because of her low profile.
The opposition, the best lifeline
Political irony completes the picture. 'Feijóo should be Pedro Sánchez's deputy prime minister', goes another of the remarks: nobody has done more to keep the prime minister at Moncloa than the opposition. A diagnosis that, amid the jokes, points to a real paradox of this term.
In the end, the awards decide nothing. But the list of categories says more than it seems: when public debate boils down to not knowing who holds which portfolio, the problem is not the contest, but the cabinet.
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