Please, someone give Astrid Pérez a mirror, but one of those big ones, that don't forgive a wrinkle or an incoherence. Because talking about "institutional deterioration" after seven years of Sánchez while representing the Popular Party... is having more nerve than a charity gala with an open bar and envelopes in cash.
Astrid, honey, you were mayor of Arrecife. You promised to stay. You said that this city deserved your commitment. And what did you do? Right after the elections, you made the leap to place yourself in the seat of the Parliament of the Canary Islands as someone who changes seats on a bus. And here, in Arrecife, you left Yonathan de León, a specialist in parties, cuts to the UNED and institutional posturing. A manager who confuses governing with setting up after-parties with public money.
And now you talk about institutional deterioration? What is deteriorated is respect for the voter, ethics and coherence. Because you yourself betrayed those who trusted you. You sold them a mayor and left them a municipal DJ with little training and even fewer brains.
Corruption, you say? Let's play the memory game, but roughly. Let's talk about the Gürtel case, the Kitchen, the bonuses in Génova, the Púnica, Lezo, Bárcenas writing more than Stephen King, and Ayuso's eternal party with her brother making money in the middle of a pandemic while the nursing homes became trenches of abandonment. Those are deteriorations, and not institutional ones: they are moral.
Feijóo? The same one who went boating with Marcial Dorado, a professional drug trafficker. The saying "tell me who you hang out with..." is literal in his case. But it seems that the newspaper archive is erased when there is a campaign.
And let's not forget that M. Rajoy was kicked out with a motion of censure, not for losing votes, but for losing institutional dignity. It was after a ruling by the National Court that confirmed that the Popular Party had benefited from a structure of institutional corruption. Words of the judge:
"The PP benefited from an authentic and effective system of institutional corruption through mechanisms of manipulation of central, regional and local public procurement."
Yes, Astrid: the first time in democracy that a government was overthrown with a motion of censure was because of your party. And still, they talk about deterioration as if someone owed them an apology.
Because yes, Astrid, how nice it is to be outraged when the Government is not yours. But when the sewer is managed from within, then everything is silence, makeup and a "that already happened." Well, no. The PP's corruption is not water, it is sludge.
And since I know that your memory fails you more than electoral promises, I leave you this final gift:
📺 WORD SEARCH FROM A TO Z OF THE PP'S CORRUPTION
A for Auditorium of Puerto Lumbreras (Lorca, with Pedro Antonio Sánchez).
B for Bárcenas (Luis, the one from the PP and the papers).
C for Box B (it's not fiction, it's parallel accounting).
D for Dorado, Marcial, Feijóo's drug-trafficking friend.
E for Emarsa, Valencian sewers with millions evaporated.
F for Fabra, sentenced to 4 years for tax fraud.
G for Gürtel, the plot that started it all.
H for Political children, hired by nepotism in Madrid.
I for Imelsa, another jewel of corruption in Valencia.
J for Jaume Matas, former Balearic president convicted.
K for Kitchen, the police operation to protect the PP.
L for Lezo, the looting of the Canal Isabel II.
M for M. Rajoy, the one we still don't know who should be from Bárcenas' papers.
N for Nóos, with Iñaki and the public millions.
O for Operation Púnica, contracts in exchange for commissions.
P for Púnica, Pío García Escudero and Esperanza Aguirre's PP.
Q for Lawsuits dismissed by statute of limitations, not by innocence.
R for Rato, former minister and former president of Bankia convicted.
S for Envelope, the famous black bonuses.
T for Tamayazo, the theft of two deputies to prevent a progressive government.
U for Urdangarín, who is not PP, but benefited from the system.
V for Valencia, epicenter of pepera corruption for decades.
W for Deleted Whatsapp, the PP's national sport.
X for X files, because there are cases that are still to be uncovered.
Y for Yachts and watches, gifts in the Gürtel.
Z for Zaplana, who said he was "in politics to get rich".
