According to Article 14 of Title I of the Constitution of Spain, all Spaniards are equal before the law, and no discrimination may prevail based on birth, race, sex, religion, opinion, or any other personal or social condition or circumstance. The first obligation derived from this Article is that the vote of any Spaniard should be worth the same as that of another Spaniard.Principle of the form
This opinion article is about how in one part of Spain this precept of the Magna Carta is broken, it is about how in the Canary Islands a Spaniard who lives in La Gomera is superior to another Spaniard who lives in Lanzarote, Gran Canaria or Tenerife and that this superiority radically conditions the socio-political reality of the archipelago. I propose to spread a democratic asymmetry because it is unfair, to spread this unsustainable fact so that all Spaniards know that not everything that happens in Las Afortunadas is good.End of the form
The DHont Law is a method of allocating seats that somehow violates Article 14, although the perversion is low and in any case lower than the averaged, proportional and rational results that are obtained. In addition, this system is used throughout the national territory, so the democratic damage is borne equally by all Spaniards in any part of Spain.
However, and returning to the case of the Canary Islands, it is unheard of that the 6,215 Spaniards who voted for Agrupación Socialista Gomera have 3 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands and the 22,021 Spaniards who voted for VOX do not have a single seat. Likewise, and also comparing with the 3 seats of ASG, it is equally surprising that the 65,830 Spaniards who voted for Ciudadanos have 2 seats in the Canarian Chamber.
This analysis does not include the prejudices that I may have in favor of VOX and against the orange weathervane, which I have; only the democratic principle of one person one vote intervenes. Nor does it condition me the fact that the leader of ASG is a drunken and whoring cacique who boasts that he does not even pay for the services of the prostitutes with whom he alternates and that, he even claims that he pisses on them while assaulting the police. No, I am not influenced more than by the anger I have as a Spaniard to see that Casimiro Curbelo, with 6,215 votes, is the most influential guy in the Canary Islands and the one who is going to decide what government we Canarians are going to have.
And, be careful not to misunderstand me, the Spanish from La Gomera deserve economic resources from all the Canarians and all the Spaniards that compensate for their remoteness, isolation and precarious services, but, these resources must come from the Canarian and state budgets and not because their vote is worth more than the vote of any other Spaniard.
In the Canary Islands, the vast majority of Canarians, more than two million, are kidnapped and blackmailed by 6,215
By Sigfrid Soria
