One hundred days is the grace period that almost every ruler usually receives before undergoing an initial assessment of their government action and future projection. 100 days is a little over three months and in this time the new Government of the Canary Islands, presided over by Fernando Clavijo and made up of the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, if anything has made clear, it is its priorities. And the sensations, frankly, could not be more frustrating.
For the moment, not a single measure for the social majority of the islands. Neither against the escalation of prices in the shopping basket nor to deal with the collapse situation in the housing market or to advance in the reconstruction of the island of La Palma. Zero. As if their electoral promises had evaporated or something even worse, that they have deliberately ignored them.
The government partners, for the moment, have only adopted a measure of certain impact and it has been, oh what things, to benefit a minority among the high incomes; to just six thousand Canarians with inheritances greater than €300,000 to whom they have decided to exempt from the payment of inheritance tax. The measure was adopted in the first Governing Council of the new legislature. A whole declaration of intentions.
The ideological bias before any tangible response to the true needs of the majority. This is the new Government we have in the Canary Islands, the most expensive in history, by the way. Never before has this Archipelago had an Executive with so many political positions and positions appointed as the current one. They said they were going to slim down the administration, but they have not kept their word here either.
The second decree law approved by the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party in these first 100 days follows the same path, far from the general interest: withdrawing parliamentary control of the Canarian Radio Television to hand it over to the Government. The risk of instrumentalization of public information services gains integers.
And, meanwhile, it remains to be specified what their fiscal and financial plans are for the next year. For now, everything is simple conjectures and colorful press headlines. However, we will soon enter Christmas and we are still waiting to know the spending ceiling of the new general accounts or if, as they are already suggesting, they will be unable to fulfill what was their main electoral promise: the linear reduction of the IGIC from 7 to 5%, as they demanded time and time again from the Pact of Flowers.
It is clear that one thing is easy criticism and impossible proposals from the opposition and quite another is to govern, make decisions and take responsibility for their consequences. An electoral fraud that we already experienced with Mariano Rajoy a few years ago, when he promised as a candidate a generalized tax cut and once in Moncloa what he did was literally raise them all. Memorable episode of political discredit and rich food for citizen distrust.
As when the will of the majority expressed at the polls is not respected and whoever ends up occupying the presidency of the government is not the first or second most voted candidate, but the third on the back of an alliance of losers. This is what has recently happened in the Canary Islands and whose result has been a government of circumstances that these four years can be long, very long. The Canary Islands is not to waste time and yet the partners have already lost their first 100 days. To worry about.
