If our most wise deputies, highly prone to dialogue and inclined to pacts, do not remedy it, we will have elections on December 25. There are those who do not look favorably on Mr. Rajoy having chosen this date for the repetition of elections. I don't know why they do it, unless it is because our idiosyncrasy contains a gene that consists of complaining about everything.
Following this reasoning, the PSOE has proposed the modification of the electoral law so that such a fact does not take place. It seems that PODEMOS is joining this bandwagon and, if we continue like this, this stroke of genius from our President (one more), will not be able to be carried out. I think they are making a serious mistake. I think it is a very appropriate date and that it presents a series of advantages that I will list below.
We would be number one in originality for holding elections. Suck on that, for those who said that we are only a country of services and bricks and that we did not invest in R&D! Mr. Rajoy, as the father of the creature, will not need revolving doors when his political activity ends, as the magnates of Silicon Valley will be on the lookout and will compete to hire him as an entrepreneur.
This record would have the security of a long permanence, because I think that it could only be surpassed by moving them to January 1, or to December 28 in countries that celebrate the Holy Innocents. In this last case, we would not be sure of its possible value until the next day, when the jokes were clarified. We could find that the same fact was taken for granted by the parties benefited, and as a joke by the losers. Let's recognize that this diversity of interpretations would be nothing new.
How many would not be eternally grateful for having the perfect excuse to skip Christmas dinner and not have to endure the inconveniences of it: long journeys, putting up with the heavyweights of the family, the children, political fights, bad jokes, making a fool of yourself when the drinks have taken their effect, eating shortbread, multiple congratulations, bad digestion...
We could renew the hackneyed custom of introducing slices of chorizo in some envelope for leftover pieces of trout or properly crushed shortbread. It would serve as an example as a magnificent gesture for our commitment to democratic renewal.
It would be a magnificent occasion to modernize our collection of Christmas carols, anchored in the past, with lyrics alluding to the ephemeris. I collaborate with one whose quality list is manifestly improvable.
Campaign on campaign,
and on campaign one,
look out the window,
you will see the envelope in the ballot box.
Bethlehem, campaigns of Bethlehem,
that the voters vote
what news do you bring me.
Imagine how easy it would be for the lyricists of comparsas, murgas and chirigotas of the Carnival to choose the theme of their criticisms. What do I say only the theme, also of their music! They would all have Christmas carol rhythms, with which we would unite these two ancestral, so close and so ours parties. I encourage you to give free rein to your poetic vein to collaborate.
We would recognize the authentic democrats and the faithful of the parties, because surely they, impervious to discouragement, would surely attend the event.
We would lighten the work of our compatriots who have the civic duty to be at the polling stations, and they could even have fun with some funny behavior of voters who have not yet properly recycled the drink from dinner.
For all this, and as we are still in time, I suggest to our politicians that they think about it before changing the law, and I propose a collection of signatures on the Internet so that this date is not altered, or failing that, it is improved by the two previously mentioned, or by that of the Day of Kings. In this last case, we would ask their Magician Majesties to stop throwing machines, toys and clothes and finally give us a Government, because possibly only the art of hocus pocus would be the appropriate means to achieve it.
By Diego Arrebola
