By clarifying that in matters of security the government does not intend to reinvent the wheel but rather apply its agenda and emphasis within the framework of a national policy designed by its predecessors, the new security minister, Martín Arrau, sent two contradictory signals. On one hand, he ratified the "State policy" status of the new security institutional framework, which added sustainability and robustness to the tools intended to address one of the main citizen concerns and removed, at least temporarily, the new ministry from the contentious arena of daily politics. But while empowering the institution he came to lead, the new security chief ended up lifting a veil that had been gradually drawn back, by the force of events, since the new government took office: that what came to be called an "emergency government" was nothing more than a clever campaign phrase designed to shed light on what they wanted to highlight and cast into shadow everything they preferred not to discuss.