To do what it is necessary to do

The government task does not have why to be exciting. In fact, it is much better that it it is not.

I make sure them that I do not have anything against the air-traffic controlers. In fact, it seems unjust to me that now anatemice and little appears before them less than like malefactors or parasites of the society.

There is nothing of that. I am sure that immense most of the controlers are citizens as respectable as any other, qualified professionals who realize his work with solvency and love for his work and workpeople who look according to the law for the best thing for themselves and for theirs.

This is not a movie of good and bad. I do not find any special gratification in appearing like the just minister who faces in field opened for the evil controlers and a booty snatches them supposedly obtained by means of extorting the society and the previous governments. He neither answers to the reality, nor is good for anybody that the management of the economic and political problems wants to turn into a knighthood novel. Not even Pepe Blanco has Quixotic vocation, not even the controlers are giant disguised of windmills.

The things are much more prosaic. Here the only thing that is in game there is the economic viability and the competitiveness of the air navigation in Spain in moment of economic crisis and of change of productive model. A little so slightly heroic, but as important as that. This has been the only approach that has mattered for us at the time of confronting the problem derived from the absence of agreement between AENA and the air-traffic controlers. This and not different is the field of the decree - law that the Government approved last Friday.

It is true that throughout a lot of time a series of situations has been accumulating, in the ambience of the air control, that taken in his set and projected on the backdrop of the most serious economic crisis, they turn out to be incompatible with the economic rationality and with the interests of Spain.

It is not possible to support in the Europe of the XXIst century a competitive system of air navigation if his costs duplicate to those of any other country. If there happens a situation of monopoly that others have left behind successfully. If the concessionary company of the service – a public service of entitlement public and given by civil servants, he does not forget - lacks all aptitude to direct and to organize the work. If there is consolidated a ludicrous remunerative diet in which one of the three hours worked is paid to the triple of his ordinary value. If any professional with 52 years has right to go away to his house with the complete salary, be convenient or not to the needs for the service. If the access to the group is ruled by the strict one and endogámico procedure of the cooption.

The sector of the air navigation in Spain was threatened seriously by all these circumstances. And when that happens, the obligation of a leader is to try to solve it

The concessionary company-AENA - and the controlers were taking five years of fruitless negotiation. Exactly from December 31, 2004, date in which the previous collective agreement expired. And the last proposals that the controlers had put on the table not only were not bringing us over to the solution of the problem, but they were aggravating it: if you do not want coffee, take two cups.

Then, the Government decides to take letters in the matter. With only one criterion: let's establish a rational frame that returns the Spanish air tariffs to the European normality and a new negotiation be opened in this new frame, the only one compatible with what Spain can allow itself.

I have not wanted to put in waist anybody. To throw the public against nobody. Much less to untie a conflict. The world splits between those who devote themselves to create mainly problems and those who devote themselves to solve them. Modestly, I aspire to be between the second ones.

The controlers decree - law is a mere government act in the context of an economic policy of struggle against the crisis and of modernization of our productive structures. If it serves for something in this area, I am considered satisfied. Everything else is part of a circus conception of the politics that I neither share does not even seem useful to me.

And the fact is that governing is, first of all, to do what it is necessary to do when it is necessary to do it.