Dear Councilor: Leaving for a better occasion the assessment of the reasons why your party has broken the pact in Arrecife, I would like to make a comment that seems appropriate to me about the alleged and ...
Dear Councilor:
Leaving for a better occasion the assessment of the reasons why your party has broken the pact in Arrecife, I would like to make a comment that seems appropriate to me about the alleged and different standards that you attributed to the PSOE in the appearance in which you announced the aforementioned rupture.
Allow me to tell you, in a manner as public and free as yours, that no, that the two standards are not true. No, Mrs. Blanca, there is only one standard that, when measuring, gives different results when what is measured is different.
What's more, I'm almost certain that you don't know of any standard that, no matter what it measures, always gives the same measurement. And that is precisely why, Mrs. Blanca, standards were invented: to know the measure of things.
Look, it may surprise you, but not all defendants are (we are) the same. Not even all convicts are, because there is no way to put on an equal footing someone convicted of tax evasion of millions of euros, with someone convicted of stealing ten cartons of cigarettes in a supermarket, let's say.
Mrs. Blanca, if not even all convicts are the same, even less so can the defendants be. And in that case, that of the defendants, not only because the facts may be different, but because the accusations themselves are also different.
It is difficult to understand the intention to compare accusations that come from the complaint of a third party, or that are the result of police investigations in a procedure, with those that occur in a police operation that ends with the arrest of politicians and businessmen after a year of judicial recordings, asset investigations and even surveillance.
That is why, because I understood that what was happening was of enormous gravity, I proposed to my party to break the pacts with the PIL when Operation Union was unleashed.
Initially we broke in Arrecife. We broke in the rest of the institutions after learning, through press releases from the UCO or the TSJC, that some detainees had admitted the facts or that Dimas was remotely directing the collection of commissions from prison with a mobile phone.
Throughout that time, and after the break, not only did we not ask for the resignation of any defendant, but we presented a motion of censure in Teguise, making precisely a defendant mayor, so that the PIL would not continue at the head of the mayoralty.
I can assure you that it was one of the most unpleasant decisions I have had to make. Imagine, it was precisely I who had denounced the new/old mayor. But politics, like life itself, consists of making assessments and acting with the risk of being wrong, of course, but the opposite would be to place ourselves in inaction, simply reserving ourselves for criticism or coffee commentary.
I try to compile, in case I have extended myself: not all defendants are the same, because not all accusations are the same, nor has the PSOE asked that all defendants resign.
You may say the opposite, but I assure you that it is not true and I would like you to believe me. Although, even better, you don't need to believe me. Just go over the newspaper archives and look for the requests that we never made for generalized resignation and you will see that you will not find them.
No, Mrs. Blanca. We limited ourselves to breaking with the PIL because what was being known drew an intolerable and scandalous scenario of extortion from the institutions themselves and the PSOE was not going to be an accomplice to that.
And look, since we are at it, I take the opportunity to tell you that I am proud of the decision taken by my Party, despite the disappointments it has caused me.
And no, among the disappointments I do not count the pleasure of clarifying that what you have said is not true. That's what we're here for.
Best regards.
Carlos Espino
