In the workplace, absenteeism is understood as the deliberate absence or lack of incorporation into work. It can be for justified or unjustified cause. Alberto Núñez Feijóo is an employee paid by the citizens, since his salary and also the bonus that he receives from the PP come from the General State Budget, which is fed by everyone’s taxes. Participating in an electoral debate with the rest of the candidates for the Presidency of the Government is not a boutade, neither a trompe l’oeil, nor a whim of public television. It is simply an obligation that every democrat should face. Unless objective justification, of course.