If there is one lesson we must learn well when we are going to sign a contract or agreement, it is to conscientiously negotiate each and every one of the clauses, analyzing the pros and cons of each one. This ...
If there is one lesson that we must learn well when we are going to sign a contract or agreement is to conscientiously negotiate each and every one of the clauses, analyzing the pros and cons of each one.
This task is easier if those who negotiate share interests, for example: two political parties negotiate a municipal government pact, reason says that it will be easier for them to reach agreements if they seek the interest of the municipality and not their own.
In the case of my municipality, two political parties, Partido Popular and San Borondón, made a pact in which one of the parties, San Borondón, imposed its conditions while the other, Partido Popular, limited itself to signing, keeping silent and granting.
The consequences of this neglect on the part of the interested party in making a pact that ensures his permanence in the long-awaited seat of the municipal council, has meant that seven councilors from the Partido Popular limit their government tasks to planting flowers in the roundabouts or recycling clovers to decorate them, while the only councilor representing the San Borondón party takes care of government tasks and fulfills his electoral program.
It is difficult to understand how we got to this situation. The residents of the municipality support with their vote the representation of a political party for the defense of an electoral program, but the program of another party that has not had so much support ends up being faithfully fulfilled. If we apply logic, there is no other explanation than the thirst for power, where the general interest is discarded in exchange for a nice office and a photo planting flowers in a roundabout.
This "oversight" by the Partido Popular when it comes to agreeing with its government partner, San Borondón, does not go unnoticed. There are several occasions in which the Deputy Mayor, Jerónimo Robayna, recalls in the plenary sessions that he is going to faithfully fulfill his electoral program while the Mayor, Francisco Hernández, and the rest of his councilors, make tremendous efforts not to bow their heads and say "yes, bwana". Let the use of this expression be understood with all due respect, lest my predilection for the use of popular language, which is not rude or vulgar and much less with the intention of offending, be recorded.
The last battle undertaken, and of course won, by the Deputy Mayor was that of the "La Tiñosa, the flavor of tradition" market. While organizers, businessmen and participants finally enjoyed the great reception that their initiative to bet on local products and popular culture was having, and even celebrating the Councilor in charge of the area, Nerea Santana, her success in counting on them to revitalize the Tiñosa area, Mr. Jerónimo Robayna limited himself to denying his support for it because it does not fit in his "electoral program". Our Deputy Mayor finds it very difficult to understand that, in addition to his, there are many other proposals that are just as valid and even better than his.
The worst thing about this whole story is how the Partido Popular turns a deaf ear and turns its back on the claims of those who at the time trusted in them, all to safeguard a government pact that with these attitudes harms many and benefits few, and if the opposition comes up with supporting this initiative with a motion, as was the case, they find a way to make a twisted use of the majority that this disastrous government pact gives them and withdraw it with unethical and immoral tricks.
I am not going to allow myself to excuse this way of proceeding of the Partido Popular, although I know that it is difficult to discern what is correct when they do not stop going around a roundabout while looking for the lost island of San Borondón.
*Saray Rodríguez Suárez, councilor of the Socialist Group in Tías.
