Nothing is surprising anymore in Arrecife. With so much nonsense, we are exhausting the capacity for surprise. Citizens, tired of so much conflicting discourse, no longer know what to believe. It is the "paralysis effect", a political strategy to measure the times, just over a year before the municipal elections.
Each day is a new story, and each one more bizarre. When it's not the rats running wild in the streets, it's the lighting or traffic light problems; not to mention the extreme dirtiness in the streets, plots full of garbage, or ruined buildings with collapsed walls in the heart of the capital. And to top it off, the millionaire lawsuits pending between the City Council and several private owners, which are mortgaging the future of the capital. Such is the case of the Ginory plot, which will mortgage this city until 2036, due to rulers who have not been able to manage adequately.
The only thing that works in Arrecife is collecting paychecks at the end of the month.
Paralysis, neglect, carelessness, lack of control? There are only two explanations:
That it is due to the absolute inability of the current governing group, before which humility and common sense should prevail, if there is no bad faith, and they should leave from where they came.
That everything is part of a tactic of manipulation and control by some elite that wants to organize and measure the times of Arrecife's development, according to their own interests. In that case, we would be talking about controlling the wills of public officials who show their faces, through political parties. An even more terrifying option if possible.
The incompetence of politicians without a trade or experience, who become employees of the parties; the power of these parties, with their cronyism and designations for gratitude to followers; and the need for financing, have turned representative mandates into mandates of parties and their affiliates.
As Margaret Thatcher said: "There is no alternative." Or maybe there is: a government of technocrats, capable of solving, managing, and organizing, capable of getting us out of this bad dream in which we are immersed. Anyway, we can't get any worse.
José Torres Fuentes, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote