With summer comes the international soccer competition and, like in a bad nightmare, Cándido Reguera returns to propose (not to arrange, as in past years) the hiring of giant screens to watch the ...
With summer comes the international soccer competition and, like in a bad nightmare, Cándido Reguera returns to propose (not to arrange, as in past years) the hiring of giant screens to watch the matches of La Roja.
The economic crisis, the cuts, the threat of healthcare co-payment or the increase in education fees do not distract the PP councilor from his goal of making the people of Lanzarote forget, through the passion for the sphere, the times that are running and the difficulties they entail. Difficulties that, by the way, have a lot to do with his party colleagues in the Government of Spain.
And Cándido proposes to the Plenary of the Cabildo and to the Councilor for Festivities, who is me, the installation of huge screens for the collective viewing of soccer, with the argument of economic revitalization.
Well, I don't know if it pays off, at 5,000 euros per match and at the cost of moving the clientele from the bars and cafes to El Reducto?
I am amazed: While the former Councilor for Social Services in the first stage of the mandate grieves over the reduction of 7,000 euros in the item destined for the classrooms of the Third Age, Cándido shakes the rattles of his plush hat in the shape of a ball, raises the national flag and asks for goals for the team and party for the neighbors of Arrecife.
I do not mean to say that we should lock ourselves at home to cry about the crisis with the televisions turned off. Or regret the ability of soccer to distract us from the real problems.
But if the economic recession has shown us the consequences of thoughtless spending and frivolous waste, we must learn to change the habits, the forms and the substance of every euro we invest.
No, Cándido, accept it. These are not times for soccer catharsis at the expense of public funds. Your catalog of occurrences will not solve the floods in Argana if the rains return, nor will it save the City Council from judicial interventions for bordering on the limit of what is admissible.
*Víctor Sanginés, Councilor for Festivities, Cleaning and Transport of the City Council of Arrecife.
