Finally!

August 29 2014 (15:25 WEST)

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Three cheers for the PP because finally a party captures the airs of democratic regeneration that society demands and has announced the first measure in that sense. What measure is it? Reform of the constitution, of justice, of education, of the tax law...? Cold as river water. Persecution of corruption, disappearance of tax havens, competence and responsibility of politicians, transparency, end of privileges, of immunities, of clientelism, of nepotism, of inequalities, revocations, etc, etc, etc? Cold, cold as the water of a Siberian river in the middle of winter.

But how is it possible that at this point you all don't know what the first big regeneration problem we must face is? Well, yes sir, it is the reform of the electoral law in its municipal section, so that, in certain circumstances, with 40% of the votes cast, an absolute majority can be obtained. Magnificent measure! Thus, if we look at the 2011 elections, where there was an abstention of 33.77%, we find that with 26.5% of the voters you can reach an absolute majority. Great progress so that the plurality of this society is represented in the institutions. We also ensure that politicians do not have to be well prepared and do not need the ability to dialogue to reach consensus with different options. We should not demand so much of them. Of course, no one would think that this measure is taken because it suits the PP. Not at all. This is done for the sake of regeneration.

But there is a problem, and that is that the other parties do not seem to want to support it, including the PSOE, which sometimes wanted similar measures. I think we should all encourage the PP to, despite this, not back down and use its absolute majority to carry it forward. Believers should pray in their respective religions, the rest should cross their fingers, send support emails, messages, tweets, wasaps,... lest we miss this great opportunity. Because the worst thing would not be to lose this measure, but all the ones that would come next in view of the path started.

Leaving irony aside to speak seriously. How is it possible that we believe that we can continue to function as we did 30 years ago, or even as in the time of the Restoration, with the simple shift of parties, if we are worse than ever? Now the single thought says that the sensible thing is bipartisanship between conservatives and social democrats. Sensible for whom? For capital, of course, which is the one who really commands. He knows that, although there are differences of nuances between them, none will pass the lines that mark them. They leave you two options so that the route of your anger can only be from Pinto to Valdemoro and from Valdemoro to Pinto, to abstention or to options that the electoral law punishes so that they have a very difficult time governing. But they do not realize that the child has grown and needs his clothes changed because otherwise he will explode. 

They did not take note of the 15M because they were not politically organized and believed that it would not harm them. Now a party appears that has not won anything yet, that is forming, that announces that it is not running in many municipalities, with an uncertain and undefined future and, despite this, some are getting nervous and acting in a hurry. Why? Because they think they have seen the wolf's paw? And what is their answer? Instead of seriously analyzing the phenomenon and trying to counteract it with what is being asked, they resort to the law to make cacicadas (legal, but, in my opinion, unfair). What confidence do they have in everything they say propagandistically when they have to resort to this? Now they are starting to get on the bandwagon of what they call regeneration but, either they do not understand, or they do not want to understand, or they only want to take advantage of the situation for their benefit. What is needed are solutions to the current situation and not verbiage. Or do they know it, but their model cannot give them?

If they believe in democracy, why do they hinder equality for all options? I am not an expert in economics, but it is common sense to see that the situation is very bad and that both parties have had many opportunities to solve it. They have not done so, and we are even worse than before. Their policy is designed to favor financial assets and not people. If they have so much faith in their own, why do they not want, at least, to leave the possibility that citizens can be wrong? 

As for the Electoral Law, it is evident that it needs a profound reform because it is very unfair. My opinion, which some or many of you will not share, is that I only believe in one person one vote with absolute mathematical equality. The further away from that, for me it is more imperfect and will be a distorted image of reality, which establishes abysses between the people and their institutions in which a part of the citizenry does not feel represented. The arguments of governability and others that are wielded I consider interested excuses. Apart from the value of the vote there is another section, which for me is non-negotiable, because if not it has no value. It is the commitment, by law, to the fulfillment of the electoral program. Tell me what we vote if the elected person is not obliged to comply with it? Why is a thorough reform not addressed, calmly, towards a more authentic democracy, instead of continuing to think that we are still minors, easy to deceive, and that we can continue to function with an anachronistic democracy?

One citizen/a one vote and not one euro one vote, which is what we have now.

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