Promise until you deliver

July 20 2019 (11:38 WEST)

I am writing this opinion article out of irremediable necessity and with the full conviction that with it I am going to arouse the agreement of absolutely everyone who reads it, something truly unusual after having written and published hundreds of articles in more than 10 digital and print media over more than two decades. And I say that it is unusual to arouse unanimous agreement in readers because the normal thing for me is to generate disagreement, controversy and even rough anger that unfairly leaves my dear mother lost.  We have just experienced two election campaigns in which Spaniards have elected MEPs, Senators and Deputies, Regional and Provincial Deputies, Island Councilors, Mayors and Councilors. Our streets have been flooded with posters with faces and slogans, our ears bombarded with promises and our television leisure interrupted by political party advertising; yes, all this under the eternal mantra that all this immense public economic expenditure constitutes the "festival of democracy". And we go and believe it.

Thus, we have known proposals from all over the ideological spectrum, from the closest to the furthest, passing through the classic endless eccentricities with which politicians bore us during campaigns; and what about the famous siesta awakenings by the megaphone of the labeled cars; or how to ignore the feeling of sadness when finding useless pamphlets in the mailbox that matter to you as much as your own problems matter to those who ask you for your vote. In short, political correctness and niceness prevent people from staying in their homes; after all, in general, democratic duty can be more than personal desire, which is none other than sending everything to hell. In short, for several weeks we have swallowed the grotesque versions that disguised the indignities of those who had exercised power and those who aspired to exercise it.

I also affirm that, in the midst of all this environment described above, the vision that the politician does what comes out of his genitals worsens, without it being in his party's electoral program and that, in addition, he executes it as a priority and urgently as soon as he comes to power. What's more, it's not that people are worsening the vision of it, it's that we are already at a level of weariness that it is difficult for me to imagine the possible consequences. For example, there are mayors who, as soon as they took office, raised their salaries, salaries that are paid by those who voted for them but that at no time during the campaign did they say they were going to raise, and even less in those percentages. Next, I show the top 8 of the ranking of these increases:

1 Inés Rey, La Coruña. From 40,000? to 69,000?, an increase of 73%.

2 Luis Felipe, Huesca. From 35,000? to 50,000?, an increase of 49%.

3 Amparo Marco, Castellón. From 52,000? to 74,000?, an increase of 42%.

4 Juan Espadas, Seville. From 61,000? to 85,000, an increase of 39%.

5 Javier Ayala, Fuenlabrada. From 56,000? to 68,000?, an increase of 21%.

6 Noelia Posse, Móstoles. From 70,000? to 82,000?, an increase of 17%

7 Augusto Hidalgo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. From 60,000? to 70,000?, an increase of 16%.

8 Gabriel Cruz, Huelva. From 61,000? to 70,000?, an increase of 14.5%.

I know that the reader is now hotter than at the beginning of the article due to the outrage they have just read, although they have not yet read what will end up really angering them. Here it goes: the top 8 mayors all belong to a political force that sells freedom, equality, solidarity and social justice . That's right, they all belong to the PSOE. It is fortunate that in the midst of this nonsense, the Spokesperson for VOX in the Congress of Deputies, Iván espinosa de los Monteros, has proposed that the Deputies not be paid until the governments are constituted. Those who remain silent in the face of the shameful top 8 have mocked this proposal. In two words: acojo nante.

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