Carlos Moyá promises to reduce belly fat in 10 nights with a miracle cream, and Pedro San Ginés assures us that the privatization of Inalsa, the management of tourist centers, waste management, and budget allocations to Lanzarote by the regional government have been a success. You know that famous Groucho Marx quote: Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
The article with which the president decided to martyr us last week (Lanzarote advances) is a new exhibition of perversion of language only comparable to jewels of the island's newspaper archives that turned criminals into political prisoners and created new criminal figures such as petty bribery. Not a single mention of the indictment of his party colleague and voiceless spokesperson in the Cabildo, Sergio Machín, precisely for the alleged collection of commissions in waste management. Not a single mention of the mistreatment suffered by the island by the regional government, with an investment of 260 euros per inhabitant, while each inhabitant of Fuerteventura receives 337 euros, or 330 in La Palma. San Ginés governs with virtual reality glasses made to measure for the Canary Islands Coalition and wants us all to use them.
In the case of the privatization of the public water company, talking about success is an example of how far language can be twisted to try to make black look white. After decades of ruinous (not to say criminal) management by those responsible for Inalsa, San Ginés tries to make us see as something positive the fact that he has agreed that, from 2016 (not before, which would have an assured electoral cost), the increase in the price of water will be a constant every year until we, the people of Lanzarote, euro by euro, return to Canal Gestión the 50 million euros that the political managers of Inalsa squandered. They consummate the scam, hide it, perpetrate the privatization, and on top of that, they want the citizens who will have to pay for this monstrosity to applaud the decision. Not even Dimas in his best days.
At least, the president says he is "aware that we still maintain unbearable unemployment rates and there are too many people in a situation of extreme precariousness." He says it, but that reality must not be so unbearable for him when the Cabildo's budget continues to systematically ignore it.
The worst thing is not that another four years have been lost, nor that they are now trying to sell achievements where there are only botches. The most terrible thing is that in no corner of the president's speech will we find a single word recognizing that, in the face of the nine thousand families who need urgent help in Lanzarote, we must act with the same diligence with which San Ginés acts to solve the problems of those at the top, for example, those of an important businessman with a winery in trouble. Lanzarote is advancing, but unfortunately, for the moment, it is only advancing in the direction pointed out by the lords of money.
Carlos Meca, General Secretary of Podemos Lanzarote