In football, the fans don't forgive. Players change teams and often give themselves to the highest bidder, but even for them, there are unthinkable jumps. There have been some examples, but it is very difficult for a historic ...
In football, the fans don't forgive. Players change teams and often give themselves to the highest bidder, but even for them, there are unthinkable jumps. There have been some examples, but it is very difficult for a historic Real Madrid player to wear the Barcelona shirt, or for a reference from the Nou Camp to enter the Bernabeú dressed in white and waiting for the immediate ovation from the public.
Politicians, however, seem to have other codes. Especially in Lanzarote. Like footballers, they change shirts without problem if they get a better offer, or if they were being relegated to the bench in their team. But in their case, they don't even seem to have too many qualms when choosing their new destination. Even the one who was their worst enemy can be a good option.
The history of politicians who collect membership cards is abundant on this island, with people who have had no qualms in moving from a state party, such as the PSOE or the PP, to a nationalist party? and then to another, and another and another more. And the real whirlwind begins, as is happening now, when the elections are approaching.
A priori, that a PNL member moves to Coalición Canaria, or vice versa, or that one from PIL decides to make the leap to CCN, may not seem too far-fetched, and the discourse that he continues to defend the "interests of this land" from a nationalist formation would even sound coherent. Of course, as long as one renounces memory.
But if there is no amnesia involved, it is difficult to understand how someone who left CC cursing and rescuing some old acronyms (like the PNL), can return years later defending the benefits of this project. Or how the rivalry and historical confrontations between CC and PIL, may have ended with leaks from one party to another. But some seem to have cyclical "revelations", and suddenly understand that the supreme good is in the acronyms they criticized until the day before yesterday.
Historically, the one that has seen its most prominent positions leave and even massive escapes has been the PIL, which continues to suffer them, but this time, the most damaged ship is that of the PNL. In Yaiza, the only institution where it obtained good results in 2007, the legislature has been devastating for this party. First he lost his mayor, José Francisco Reyes, who even spent several months in provisional prison. Shortly after, four of its five councilors in this municipality left the party. Now, and with one of these councilors converted into mayor, they have seen how all of them make the leap to CC and, according to Coalición Canaria, the entire local assembly of the PNL in Yaiza is also leaving with them.
In addition, these leaks are not the only ones. In the rest of the island, where the PNL is relegated to the role of fifth political force, with little institutional representation, it is also seeing how militants escape to another formation, in this case the PP. That is to say, that its two government partners in the Cabildo are "stealing" affiliates between smile and smile. That's politics.
On the island there are parties that bet more on the "youth academy", and others that are specialists in taking their players from other teams, but most of the main formations have sometimes fallen into the "galactic" signing. Some failed miserably. Others seem to have come from other acronyms to stay, with greater or lesser fortune. However, as in football, each one signs according to their possibilities. And what abounds in the market are "players" who flee from a team that is on the verge of relegation, or from one where the coach no longer lets them play. And before that, one can only break the deck and invent a new party, or look for other colors under which to take shelter.
One can be from Barcelona, Real Madrid or Unión Deportiva Lanzarote until death and, probably, not even the most fickle public office will change the team of their loves. But of course, one thing is football, which is sacred, and another is politics.
