On November 11 of last year, after recalling the iter followed in relation to the agreements reached on floor crossing in the years 1998, 2000 and 2006, a large group of parties from the political spectrum in Spain signed the Pact for institutional stability and the subtitle Agreement on a code of political conduct in relation to floor crossing in democratic institutions. PSOE, PP, Unidas Podemos, Ciudadanos, PSC, PNV, IU, BNG, PAR, Foro Asturias and Galicia en Común signed just four months ago an addendum - the third - to the original pact that seemed to shed hope in the fight against this scourge, and this because it was done under the confidence that the signatories did so as an expression of a sincere commitment.
The objective of the document, in theory, was clear: to continue the fight against floor crossing in all institutional spheres, since floor crossing is a form of corruption. This is how the signatory forces understood it, by extending its scope to the local, regional and state levels with the articulation of a series of measures to combat this undemocratic and despicable practice, while expressing their willingness to apply the agreements reached "scrupulously".
In the aforementioned pact, floor crossers were defined, among others, as local, regional and state representatives who, betraying the political subject - political parties, electoral coalitions or groups of voters - that had presented them to the elections, abandoned them or departed from the criteria set by their competent bodies. The agreement, with wide media repercussions, was reached after ten years of not having convened the Monitoring Table of the Pact on this matter, at the request of Ciudadanos, and as a necessity recognized by all the signatories, given the casuistry that had been occurring in recent dates.
Well, having established the above, verifiable with a mere entry in any digital newspaper library, here comes a gentleman from Murcia and orders to stop. Nothing of what was signed, quite the opposite, the need ceased to exist, the word and signature stamped together with the democratic convictions were taken away by the north wind and, as for the fact that floor crossing was an act of corruption, if I have seen you I don't remember.
The subject's last name is García Egea, his first name is Teodoro and he is, nothing more and nothing less, than the general secretary of the PP, Casado's right-hand man and the second in command of what they call the new PP. Let's not forget that there are two PPs, the one from the past and the one born after their last party congress, the one from Casado, although most of those from the past sit their backsides in the Carrera de San Jerónimo, in the Senate Palace and in many of the seats in the regional parliaments of our skin of a bull.
Without hesitation, in a public appearance, Teodoro García Egea has carried out the biggest attack in democracy against what was agreed to combat floor crossing. Thus, enraged, like a tarot reader at dawn, he solemnly pronounced "all the cards are on the table" and then, without any shame and after an apocalyptic message that you have to choose between socialism or freedom, between chaos or PP, he made a call to all the militants, sympathizers and leaders of Ciudadanos to integrate or join his party. And he was so calm.
What happens to the militants and sympathizers, since everyone deploys their political tactics as they see fit, but what happens to the leaders, knowing that in them almost always the condition of public office also converges, constitutes a crude and gross unveiling of what the PP really thinks of floor crossing. To paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt and what he said about the first dictator of the Somoza, but without a taco, "they are our floor crossers".
With the frenzy of the latest political avatars, it would seem that the words of García Egea had gone unnoticed, overwhelmed by that, and that is why I felt obliged to highlight the seriousness of them, because normalizing them also involves normalizing corruption. Although it is true that someone will call me naive for having come to think that this gentleman from Murcia could respect a pact against corruption militating in the only party that during our contemporary democracy has been convicted judicially, for that very reason, for corruption.
Fco. Manuel Fajardo Palarea, senator of the PSOE for Lanzarote and La Graciosa.