"And he left, and he called his boat freedom..." This is what all of us who intensely experience the municipal and regional elections hum because once May 28th has passed, there are another 4 years to feel that special tingle again.
These days come what is known as the electoral hangover, the meetings of people considered as "cabinet of experts", people with whom to reach agreements to give the best to all the Canarians in the coming years. But let's be serious and tell the truth, the thing about pacts is like when you're drunk in the early morning and you call your ex to come back; those calls are made on the first night. Although there are some who only spoke with Father God on the electoral morning.
The results were what they were and there wasn't much guano with which to revive the four-way pact with which the Canary Islands have survived in recent years. Everything looked very good for CC and PP to sign a great agreement for stability and if they were missing someone for thirty-six, this new government would exchange the flowers of La Gomera for the pineapples of El Hierro.
The moment of the photos, the signatures and the distribution of areas arrived. Suddenly Ángel Víctor, who appointed a saturated Loli Corujo as negotiator, comes out like a child when his parents take him reigning from the "Lanzarote fairground" (or whatever that is) because he doesn't want to leave the "bumper cars" at the San Ginés festivities. Supposedly saying, nothing more and nothing less, that since he won one more deputy than the next on the list of the autonomous region, he should be the president.
Let's see Ángel Víctor, I'll explain to you that we all knew that little reform they made to the electoral law was only good for putting 10 more chairs in Parliament and also changing them at a reasonable price. But I'm from the smallest island in this land and my blood boils when I hear these things, because logically the islands that contribute the most votes are Gran Canaria and Tenerife; in a fragmented territory, the important thing is that we are all represented on equal terms.
There are islands, sir, that in the four years that you have governed we have no water, no pediatrician, no nursing home and we pay for the transport of goods. While in the house of all Canarians a commission has been vetoed to find out where our 4 million euros are in masks, the Archipelago has one of the highest poverty rates in the country or the item for legal aid lawyers for victims of gender violence is not substantially increased. In the event that the number of votes for the regional list responded to the balance of management of the Canarians, according to his ideas of an angry child, he must recognize that his vice president, Román Rodríguez, has been charged, who at the time of greatest inflation refused to lower the IGIC to alleviate families while the GOBCAN accounts were overflowing with money.
With all this I remember the approval of the new Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands including a REF that would compensate for the insular issue, the recognition of La Graciosa as an island and the inclusion of an article in which the vote of an insular issue will prevail more the votes of the deputies of that constituency than the rest of the Chamber. This is that modern thing that is talked about in the newspapers and is called parity; it means, in case you don't know, that a Gracioso should not have fewer rights than someone from La Gomera for the simple fact of having been born on a smaller island.
Call me an idealist, but I think this can't take much more like this, that the institutions that represent our land should be led by people with enthusiasm and desire. Capable of leaving their eyelashes on the road from humility to better manage our paradise. If not, we are doomed in the medium term to overwhelming abstentions that do not guarantee a full democratic state, because in case someone has not realized, people are ceasing to believe in politics.
I'm sorry Ángel Víctor, this is the festival of democratic nature, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose; because one of the graces of this office is the uncertainty of not knowing if two plus two equals four. Now, don't tell me that it's not a monologue by our great Manolo Vieira that Ángel Víctor Torres' farewell to the Government of the Canary Islands is with a storm.
