"Revenge and pride; bad travel companions"

January 3 2016 (12:31 WET)

The panorama we have in Spain is closer than ever to ungovernability. And not because of the plurality of the new Congress, but because of the so-called red lines that the so-called progressive parties use at will in order to touch power and destroy a single rival: the winning party in the elections. An irresponsibility that places Spain on the brink of the abyss.

Revenge and pride are bad travel companions when we are all on the same train called politics. And if not, let them tell the PSOE-NC union that shouted to the four winds that they were going to banish the Popular Party of the Canary Islands and that this union was going to act as a yoke against the popular ones. Now, with the electoral results in hand, they justify the loss of seats by saying that the progressive left has won, that same left that has generated two serious economic crises in our country, in 1993 and in 2011. They use the concept "progressive" because it looks good to the gallery but in practice they certainly do not show it off. Because "progressive" is the one who fights for his country and opens the doors to dialogue, "progressive" is that party that puts the interest of his country before the purely partisan interest. But in view of the course through which it is going in these first post-election moments, it seems that the desire for power will make the PSOE pact even with the devil in order to sit in the Presidential chair, because its intention is to unite with those who want to break Spain and take it to the most absolute penury.

Without realizing it, or without caring too much, the party of the rose and the fist obviates that the objective of Podemos is to end them as it already did with IU. The PSOE has fattened Podemos since May, facilitating power with the sole excuse of exterminating the Popular Party, but the play has been reversed and it has been the purple formation that has given them the electoral hatchet. Now, the PSOE will have to choose between continuing to fatten the communist beast or putting aside grudges, revenge and pride, and betting on a real and not simulated democracy, betting on a realistic and not populist democracy.

On the other hand, there is the message that the citizens have sent; new ways of doing politics and new models of politicians who walk on the same path as the rest of the citizens and who constantly fight for the true interests of those they represent. On this occasion they have had a weapon, the protest vote, which they have used because of the discontent that the political class has generated on repeated occasions, especially by those who enter politics in order to enrich themselves with everyone's money or to act in a repugnant way.

Today more than ever the time for dialogue has come, but not with a small mouth and teeth out. Spain needs unity, to demonstrate that the interests of citizens prevail above all else. So that we all win, so that democracy wins.

Jacobo Medina, PP councilor in the Arrecife City Council

 

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