Bartender!, one of barnacles...

Bartender!, one of barnacles...

October 19 2009 (17:38 WEST)
By Miguel González
Those who have tried them assure that barnacles are an exquisite seafood, very expensive, difficult to find and complicated to taste because, in addition to their appearance as marine rock, they add an extreme difficulty when extracting their ...

Those who have tried them assure that barnacles are an exquisite seafood, very expensive, difficult to find and complicated to taste because, in addition to their appearance as marine rock, they add an extreme difficulty when extracting their meat. They say that in a certain establishment in the south of Lanzarote, where the territory's rustlers have lashed out with special virulence against the current legality, the intellectual mastermind of the strategy to expel the PSOE from the island's institutions places his pawns on the island's political board, while he delights in the tasty barnacles that are deposited on his table almost daily.

Now he has a qualified pawn, a kind of all-powerful mediator who called himself, in the council plenary session of the motion of censure of all against the PSOE, the "new bartender of the chiringuito". Not even in my dreams would I have found a more accurate definition to describe the Cabildo de Lanzarote after October 17. A chiringuito, whose address is the main bartender, Pedro Sanginés, accompanied by a cohort of faithful servants of the owner of the canteen (the one with the barnacles from the south), in the form of councilors from CC, PP, PNL and PIL and who will probably operate from now on as mere unqualified kitchen helpers of what is being cooked in the chiringuito's kitchen.

The decisions on the politics of the territory, the main axis and leit motif of the brutal attack of all against the PSOE, will be transferred with haste from the democratic body par excellence of the Cabildo, the Plenary, to the table of the barnacles in Playa Blanca and to a cell in Tenerife II, and perhaps, to some autonomous office with influences from Soria. Pedro Sanginés' speech during the Plenary of the motion of censure against the socialist Manuela Armas was sufficiently vulgar, aggressive, shoddy, disjointed, disconnected and servile to expect something substantial beyond submission to the territory's rustlers and the permanent unhealthy obsession of the president-mediator against the PSOE and its main leaders.

The PP played on Saturday the role it has been playing in island politics for decades: colorless, odorless and tasteless, its president has placed the party in the epicenter of the corrupt plot starring the PIL and, to a lesser extent, by the PNL, in exchange for political alms in the form of government areas. Nothing new should be expected from Dimas' group, beyond his conception of public affairs as a kind of perennial theft, while the PNL has been inoculated by the virus of corruption and navigates smoothly through the turbulent waters of money laundering, bribery and influence peddling. The honest CC, far from the powerful influence of cement, was relegated by the sector of Jesús Machín, a man of deep religious convictions and capable of turning the other cheek every time Dimas gives him a resounding slap in the face in the form of withdrawing electoral support.

The only possible and visible opposition is that of the PSOE. We socialists are opposition because we are incorruptible, because we expel the corrupt from the institutions and because we reject the deal, the trickery, the illegality and the looting of public funds. For many kilos and kilos of barnacles that they offer us.

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