Last week, the citizens of this island suffered chapter two hundred and thirty of the history of insular political instability. Those of us born with democracy could collect trading cards of government crises. The sad reality is that history repeats itself too quickly, we had not yet gotten used to the embrace of the Popular Party, supposedly of the center, with the Socialist Party, supposedly of the left, when their love broke from so much use. Who would bet that halfway through the legislature the pact was going to break? Well, no more and no less than half the island, because we know the path of the legislature from beginning to end.
The arguments, excuses, justifications, press conferences, betrayals, media accusations and confrontations of supposed ideological nature are repeated legislature after legislature since the times of Chana Perera and her ventosa. Nothing new in the panorama of the sad, but real as life itself, political decadence of this island. Unstoppable.
I must admit that Mr. Pedro Sanginés's "set them up to fight" chapter did not surprise me in the slightest. Nothing else can be expected from the political figure. He served as president rocked in the cradle of the most recalcitrant machismo, his ways and attitudes as a politician are the reflection of that phrase "set them up to fight". Nothing that should surprise those of us who listened to his plenary sessions, experienced his most elementary shortcomings and had the dispensable experience of having him as a public representative of the island's first institution.
To the chapter of horrendous samples of the low quality of our political class, at the level of Chana and her ventosa, Marcos Páez and his plundering eagerness, the fights in the PNL headquarters and the role of accidental president of the prisoner Dimas Martín played by Mario Pérez, we must now add the "set them up to fight" of Pedro the Peaceful and the "I am not a chafarmeja" of Astrid Pérez.
It was twenty past seven in the morning on Friday, November 26, when in the morning news of La Ser, Hoy por Hoy Lanzarote of the well-known journalist Carlos García, the Mayoress of the mistreated capital of the island was happily telling the suffering listeners how she asked Leticia Padilla (Lanzarote en pie) on several occasions to join the government group of Arrecife: "I have been asking Lanzarote en pie on several occasions to join the Government group. I did it at the beginning of the legislature, I did it walking to the House of Culture six months ago when we were going to present an exhibition and I have done it now. It is not the first time that I have asked you to join the government. In the first meeting we had last week she asked me: First, hey, is this a joke? Is the offer real, is it not real?... and I said, first that I am not a chafarmeja, that I don't have to invite anyone to join a government if I don't plan to invite them. If I don't want you to enter, I don't offer you to enter, of course it was real".
I perfectly understand Leticia Padilla's stupefaction. I don't know how the councilor of Lanzarote en pie was after hearing from the Mayoress that she is not a chafarmeja. I suppose she would think the same as we all think, what? I think it is very chafarmeja derechona to propose to a left-wing party a government pact while walking towards an inauguration in the House of Culture. The Mayoress must be very accustomed to chafarmejadas such as deciding governments between female leaders, outside the bodies of the parties, like that, between friends, walking towards an inauguration or back home in Binter.
The word chafalmeja is a Canarianism that has the meaning of "person of informal and irresponsible behavior". I don't know what chafarmeja means, I suppose that at some point the Mayoress will have come to the conclusion that speaking badly is very much of the people and that, therefore, speaking badly to the people makes her a person of formal and responsible behavior.
I understand that breaking a government group in the middle of the legislature is also a formal and responsible behavior. In the middle of the biggest health crisis that humanity has experienced, generating political instability is very formal and responsible. Starting an election campaign when there is more than a year left for the elections is very formal and responsible, especially when we are going through one of the most serious economic crises in this country and we have the highest rates of child poverty in Spain. If, in addition, that government led by the non-chafarmeja breaks down because, as she herself acknowledges, half of her government was acting behind the intervention and supervision, not doing its job and the councilor of finance escaped her control, we have enough arguments to believe that Mrs. Pérez has been and is an example of formal and responsible conduct policy.
It is very formal and responsible to govern with the left, with the right, with the nationalists, with the socialists and with the opportunists. It's all the same. That is why she proposes to Leticia to enter to govern with the psoe and she proposes to enter to govern with cc, and with the sursum corda if she wants. It doesn't matter, because it is not chafarmeja to lack ideology, principles and political programs to fulfill.
It is very responsible and formal not to have a political direction for the capital of the island, to confuse governing with granting licenses, to turn the city into a puddle of feces and to bet on the car instead of the pedestrian. Everyone knows that Arrecife has no heritage to protect because a catalog of historical assets has not been approved, it does not have a general plan because the non-chafarmeja lady is satisfied with executing the basic adaptation of María Isabel Déniz, which is the example of criminal urbanism par excellence of the island, behind the hotels of Yaiza, of course.
The non-chafarmeja mayoress can boast of formality and responsibility, that is why she governs with an accidental secretary and comptroller, because in that capital a national qualified official lasts as long as a candy at the door of a school. And finally, it is very non-chafarmeja to demand compliance with the law at the migrant camp, to deny them minimally dignified treatment to the needy, while living for fifteen years in an illegal house.
All very formal and responsible. Politically speaking, of course, let me be understood.
That it is a political, public and general interest matter the fact that her husband is a confessed corrupt and that her friend, in a congress of non-chafarmeja female leaders back in Binter, must have decided to put him in charge of the roads of the island. All very formal and responsible.
Exemplary, even.
