Let's have the reconstruction in peace

June 1 2020 (14:53 WEST)

I read it somewhere a while ago: politics implies the power to lead, the science of organizing and the art of foreseeing. And I would also include a fourth premise: the ability to dialogue, reach consensus and agree. It is this last requirement that marks the distance between authoritarian and dictatorial systems and our democratic model.

I think about it in the wake of the spectacles that are sometimes offered to citizens from public platforms. The insults, diatribes, disqualifications and pejorative comments between representatives of the different political forces are now so common that it is almost surprising when a session goes by without some kind of brawl.

As a newcomer to the Hemicycle - with its months of confinement included - I still do not understand how some elected officials exercise the representation of their voters by means of personal accusations that have no relation to political work, values or ideology.

In the current circumstances, in which the very serious socio-health crisis has been joined by an unprecedented economic crisis, I am embarrassed and ashamed to see how some deputies who should be pulling together to find solutions, settle their daily task by turning on the fan of attacks.

And I suffer thinking about the millions of people who went to the polls confident that the public representatives in whom they placed their trust would do everything possible and impossible for the benefit of the general interest.

Brawling is not inherent to political work. Agreement and collaboration are possible and required. Proof of this is the high-mindedness demonstrated in the Madrid City Council by Más Madrid and the PSOE, who have joined the capital's reconstruction project together with the right-wing government led by the Partido Popular, despite the ideological distance and the renunciation of partisan gain.

Let us take note and have the reconstruction in peace.

Ariagona González, national deputy and Minister of Industry and Energy of the Cabildo de Lanzarote

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