Pedro San Ginés is right about one thing. There are many, many people on this island who do not like his way of acting or his management at all. And the fronts are so many that, perhaps, it can even be understood that ...
Pedro San Ginés is right about one thing. There are many, many people on this island who do not like his way of acting or his management at all. And the fronts are so many that, perhaps, it can even be understood that he tries to convince himself that he is the best thing that has happened to the Cabildo and this island, and that the problem is actually that there is an interplanetary conspiracy against him.
It is a natural instinct of the human being that is born from childhood, when a baby gets angry when he does not get what he wants, or a child argues at home that the problem with his grades lies in the fact that the teacher dislikes him. With maturity, we begin to understand that these excuses no longer work, and the common mortals have to begin to assume their defects and their mistakes. Even if there are too many.
Therefore, when the tantrum is starred not by an adult, but by an entire president of the Cabildo, the spectacle becomes grotesque.
Laughter is inevitable when you see a president summon the media to an official press conference to kick and scream because they call him "bartender", when he himself called himself that no less than in his investiture. Or to whine because they mess with him. Or to reach the absurdity of attacking this communication group because it criticizes him and, even, because Alberto Acosta "never calls him" to enter his Radio Lanzarote program. That said, laughter is inevitable, and it is understandable that dozens of forums on lavozdelanzarote.com have given free rein to their sense of humor, even proposing to create clubs of the type "Alberto calls".
But stupefaction, surprise and indignation are also inevitable in the face of a president who is making the island's first institution small, very small. The same one that he defined as a "chiringuito" when he took office. The same one that he devalued to much less than a canteen last Friday, when he used it to summon the media under deception, claiming that he was going to talk about the "management of the territory", when in reality he only wanted to mark himself a monologue of almost 50 minutes in which only victimhood, poison and tension were heard. And all this, while maintaining that his objective was quite the opposite.
The discourse of victimhood is not new. It was the eternal song of the now silent Dimas Martín, and also of the former mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes. When the scandals began to surround them, both assured that there was an axis of evil conspiring; one to remove him from the institutions, and the other to "stop the development of Playa Blanca". And despite the fact that time has confirmed how absurd that discourse was, at least they launched it in rallies or in interviews, and did not use a public institution to dispatch with their crazy messages.
In the case of Pedro San Ginés, the facts are so ridiculous and at the same time so serious, that almost no words are needed. Especially when, although what he intended was to harm all the people he attacked in his press conference, he has achieved quite the opposite, because the main victim has ended up being himself.
In his speech he assured that they call him corrupt, but the truth is that no one has ever used that term, because otherwise, San Ginés' logical response would have been in the courts. However, describing what his steps are being in territorial policy, what changes he is carrying out in two technical departments of the Cabildo that are key to urban planning, what his relationships are or who he is surrounding himself with, means, according to what he said in that press conference, presenting him as "the most corrupt in the history of conejera democracy". He will know.
And of course, he will also have to know where that press conference has taken him. Because considering that he has only managed to further increase the tension and earn an avalanche of criticism from associations, social groups, citizen platforms, social agents and unions, as reflected in the pages of the printed edition of La Voz de Lanzarote this week, it gives the feeling that the only thing he intended was to self-immolate in his chiringuito.
Not even from his own party, where according to him there are also those who conspire against him, have come out to support him. Five days after the ridiculous press conference, the island president of the Canarian Coalition, Jesús Machín, continued to assure that he had not yet seen it, perhaps to avoid having to pronounce himself, or perhaps because he had really preferred not to see it.
And that's not to mention the difficult situation in which he put the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, who just this week spent two days on the island to participate in several events, and who had to face the inevitable questions, given that San Ginés also launched more than harmful messages not only for some of his party colleagues, but for the Canarian Coalition as a whole.
Only his government partners in the Cabildo seem to applaud the president's grace, although they left him alone in that press conference. And it is inevitable that those who are ultimately his political adversaries celebrate the public suicide of the one who dreamed of being a candidate for the presidency in the next elections.
When referring to Radio Lanzarote and La Voz de Lanzarote in his press conference, Pedro San Ginés described us as a "powerful media group". And of course, it is appreciated. Because that means recognizing a force that lies, neither more nor less, in that of our readers and our listeners. However, although he did not underestimate the volume of the audience, he did so and much with the intelligence of the people who every day choose this media to inform themselves, not only of the persecutory manias of the president of the Cabildo, but of the truly important issues that occur on this island.
