Look, Astrid, honey, for you to come now and say that Pedro Sánchez is "not welcome in Lanzarote" because he is "cornered by corruption" is like Esperanza Aguirre coming out to talk about discretion or if Camps gave us lessons in ethics. Come on, that doesn't work.
From your comfortable seat in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where you sat thanks to agreements that you yourself criticize when others make them, you dare to say that Sánchez "contaminates with his presence." Well, let's open the windows, but not for Pedro to leave: to ventilate all the rot that your party has left for years.
Let's talk about what did contaminate Lanzarote
It was not Pedro Sánchez who left Arrecife in urban chaos. It was not Pedro Sánchez who signed agreements with the Canarian Coalition while mutually covering up political embarrassments as if they were old furniture before a visit. It was not Pedro Sánchez who handpicked half of the PP for public positions while you continued with that discourse of democratic purity that only you believe.
That Sánchez is "cornered by corruption"? Let's see:
- Do the Bárcenas papers ring a bell?
- The Gürtel plot, with illegal financing of the PP?
- The Lezo case and the little trips with public money?
- The B box that even a judge recognized as real?
- The PP convicted as a corrupt party, by final judgment, under Rajoy's mandate?
Because you have to have a lot of nerve, but to come and give ethics lessons from a party convicted of corruption, that's already an honors degree in audacity.
Lanzarote is not yours, Astrid
I remind you that Lanzarote is not a PP estate. Hardworking people live here, who pay their taxes, who suffer for housing, who cannot find doctors and who see how the island is privatized in pieces. So don't come with "guardian of morality" poses when your record is that of someone who has governed with posturing and little else.
And if you are so bothered that Pedro Sánchez spends his holidays here, perhaps you should focus on solving the real problems of the island: such as the collapse of the health system, the abandonment of public infrastructures or the drama of housing. Because political posturing is very good for you, but governing is another matter.
What contaminates is not Pedro Sánchez. What contaminates is hypocrisy
So no, Astrid, you have no moral or political authority to decide who is "welcome" in Lanzarote. Not while you are a member of a party where envelopes in B were more common than coffees. Not while you yourself are part of a political apparatus that has covered up, justified and whitewashed corruption as if it were company policy.
Pedro Sánchez does not contaminate. What contaminates is institutionalized cynicism and press conferences that smell more of desperation than real indignation.
And you know what, Astrid? You don't have to invite or uninvite anyone. That Lanzarote, fortunately, is not owned by the Popular Party. And much less by you.
