Now that we are leaving Easter and just when almost a month has passed since the beginning of the decree that forces us to stay at home and that restricts our freedoms for the not inconsiderable price of saving human lives, I am assailed by reflections and thoughts aloud that why not? I would like to share in these lines.
The bull, an ancient Catholic tradition, which marked differences between some Catholics and others to access the privilege of eating meat on Good Friday must have mutated in some way, in this exceptional situation, to some local politicians.
It is curious that those same political formations that govern in certain institutions ask the opposition for responsibility and to join efforts in this era, while in those where the citizens (or the politics of pacts) have placed them in the opposition, they do not apply what they demand.
It is quite common for those of us who wander through the networks these days to occupy the time, to see publications by members of the PP with harsh criticisms (surely many reasonable) of the socialist management in the Canary Islands or Spain or, on the contrary, to see prominent socialists asking for state responsibility and adding to them.
But, even more curious, is to see those same people who criticize the action of the left asking for responsibility (this not of the State) for those policies of initiatives that they carry out in those places where they govern, as is the case of Arrecife. Or, even more curious, to see leaders of one and another party throwing themselves at the jugular of the policies of the mayors and councilors in the Government.
THEY MUST HAVE PAID THE BULL, I concluded in my reflection. They must be the few privileged who, in this difficult situation, can say one thing and the opposite just by changing their jacket.
There were different types of Bull and of different prices and that same thing must happen here. I have even seen and heard some ask for respect for their proposals and decisions to, immediately afterwards and in the same intervention, disqualify, to put it nicely, those of the opposition without any more logical argument than that of "we are not willing".
Another mutated bull has been that of promoting (by those parties that ask not to make politics of the Covid) the actions of the institutions from the profiles of their organizations.
Seeing right-wing mayors criticizing left-wing presidents while asking their opposition for responsibility, left-wing councilors criticizing actions of the government of nationalist municipalities while asking for responsibility for their colleagues in the various governments, or right-wing councilors criticizing the left is, to say the least, curious. "Badly employed bitches those of these bulls" leads me to think.
Bulls for some and for others but, as with the Catholic tradition, I ask myself: do you stop "sinning" by paying to do it?
But well, Easter has already passed, the bull has already been enjoyed by whoever wanted and could pay for it and now I hope that ALL, some and others, join the responsibility.
Think about the best we can each do from our responsibilities to get out of this, and abandon the politics of the showcase and criticism to do POLITICS of the real one, of the one that is written in capital letters and solves the problems of the people.
We, my colleagues and I, will continue in that. Being responsible, trying to contribute our grain of sand so that this passes and watching that the institutions and their representatives do what they have to do, DO THEIR JOB. There will be time for analysis and criticism if things have not been done well. NOW IT IS TIME TO JOIN EFFORTS AND WORK TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.
Echedey Eugenio Felipe, spokesperson for the Nationalist Group in the Arrecife City Council
