We look at Greece with fear and pity, with fear for what its political ups and downs may affect the European Union and therefore Spain, and with pity for the thousands of Greeks who see how their country has fed on mere populism and not on unpopular measures, the latter being the ones that a responsible government must take if it wants Greece to return to socio-economic normality.
And on the other hand we hear the leader of Podemos in Andalusia say that she is terrified by Tsipras' trembling legs and that she is afraid that this will take its toll on her party. This lets us glimpse that they want to use Spain as a laboratory for a political experiment that failed in the Hellenic country, but that they want to see if in Spain and using Spaniards as guinea pigs, their Bolivarian policies could bear fruit.
In Spain we also have cases of political cowardice, and it happens that they always come from the hand of socialist leaders, Felipe González in 1993 and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2011, both have had to bring forward the elections justifying an economic crisis that has undoubtedly been preceded by the disastrous economic management of the PSOE. Let's not forget that Zapatero destroyed 3 million jobs, and irresponsibility led him to bring forward the elections, leaving a country in the ICU and more than five million unemployed. But as always, after the left has governed in our country, it is the turn of the Popular Party to pick up the garbage from the socialist party and demonstrate that responsibility and commitment are acquired from beginning to end.
It is surprising to see every day how left-wing governments acquire political cowardice as DNA, which translates into resignation, as Trispras did last week, or early elections as Zapatero in 2011 and Felipe González in 1993. It is clear then that the PSOE destroys what the Popular Party builds.
On the other hand, when the Popular Party governs, it does so with responsibility and courage, and it is more than proven that the actions carried out by the current government have served to turn the situation around and position Spain as the country that grows the most in the European Union, behind France, Italy, Portugal and even Germany. Spain is stepping on the accelerator and returning the effort to the citizens, God help us if the left arrives, because the slowdown in economic growth would be guaranteed. The reforms that have had to be carried out to reconcile economic and social well-being are undeniable, but the Popular Party is not to blame, it is one more victim, along with the citizens, of socialist policies.
Jacobo Medina, PP councillor in Arrecife
