Imagine that in your country, the most corrupt president in recent democratic history governs, a president who exchanged 7 votes from Catalan separatists, whose leader is a fugitive from justice, in exchange for an immoral and probably illegal amnesty law, a law he renounced until he needed those 7 votes to be invested as president.
Imagine that this president's wife is being investigated and that it looks like there is real legal substance for her to end up convicted. Imagine that the brother of that president is also being investigated for embezzlement, prevarication, and influence peddling, and that the shameless man said he lived in Portugal to save on taxes.
Imagine that the until recently right-hand man of that president, Mr. Ábalos, had to be expelled from the party due to suspicions of corruption, and imagine that the right-hand man of that right-hand man, Mr. Koldo, is also being investigated by the justice system. And imagine that the Canarian PSOE was stained by the Tito Berni case.
Now imagine that in almost all of Spain there is a kind of electoral shift, I say "kind of" because it hasn't been anything spectacular either, where the national center-right party wins in almost all Spanish provinces except in the most separatist regions and, also incredibly, in the Canary Islands, with Lanzarote not being an exception to this defeat against the socialists.
I don't know, with those results, seeing the Canarian PP and particularly the Lanzarote PP celebrate anything makes me angry. It makes me angry, not because I am a member of the PP (I am not) or a loyal voter (I am not either), but because as a center-right voter who could even vote for a center-left party if circumstances allowed, it angers me that they have not been able to defeat the Lanzarote PSOE and all its related paraphernalia, with the very leftist César Manrique Foundation at the head, a party that supports the most disastrous president of the national government in modern democratic history and that has caused an unprecedented housing crisis in Spain and very particularly on the island of Lanzarote, where many of our fellow citizens are suffering severely from the misguided policies of the social communists during the last 6 years of their government.
Let's see if Astrid, Jacobo, and Yonathan get the message (and by the way, the leaders of CC, although I don't know if I should say the squires of the PNV). Doing works that the island needs, fixing the streets, and beautifying the city are necessary things, without a doubt, but that's not how votes are won. I refer to the results of the European elections!
In 2024, votes are won by giving the cultural battle and not letting the narrative be eaten up like children who have their sweets taken away. The Canarian socialists very intelligently promoted the demonstrations in April of "Canarias tiene un límite" (Canary Islands has a limit), in a wonderful pre-election maneuver that you and CC have eaten with mojo out of prudishness.
The real problem of the Canary Islands and of Lanzarote in particular, is not the arrival of illegal immigrants, nor of tourists, nor vacation homes, the problem of Lanzarote is called the problem of access to housing, of a lack of supply aggravated very acutely by the ineffective measures of the Sánchez administration. Because when there is no decent housing at a decent price, people, as is logical and natural, start to get annoyed.
And the Canarian PSOE, masterfully and Machiavellianly, has managed to reorient that discomfort so that many Canarians identify the problem as what it is not. They have done it so masterfully that they have won here when they have lost in all of Spain and in Europe.
The center-right of Lanzarote has to wake up and start calling things by their name: housing crisis created by the social communists of Madrid. It has to start putting real solutions by building up to 15,000 homes, most of them protected, so that our fellow citizens have what they need and deserve: not to dedicate almost all their salary to barely surviving.
And apart from putting real solutions and not patches, it has to denounce the authentic root of the problem, without mincing words, to democratically convince the electorate that voting for the PSOE today, is voting for a party that only generates poverty wherever it goes.
