That the Popular Party of Lanzarote has been encouraged to name the satrap (not an insult, it is a RAE definition) Pedro Sánchez Castejón persona non grata, as I requested in my column on June 26, is great news for the island, although some do not understand it yet (let's admit it, many people live their lives and observe politics in a more than superficial way, despite the fact that it has important consequences on their lives).
This declaration is not something symbolic or trivial, but rather a political action full of charge and weight, so that from the most important institution on the island it is pointed out what is socially undesirable, just like when a pickpocket is seen on the street and the neighbors shout ¡thief!, ¡thief!.
¿Why do people shout "thief" when they catch him carrying out his criminal activity?, so that everyone is warned that evil is near. Well, the same is an institutional declaration of persona non grata, it is a sign that indicates to society that evil, which does so much damage to our fellow citizens, is very close and that we want to scare it away and point it out with the greatest possible clarity.
I think this that I explain is easy to understand, but the problem is that many do not understand why they seek to name persona non grata the worst person who has passed through the political establishment since Indalecio Prieto. It is not because of corruption, we citizens are already frightened by that, in addition to the fact that corruption has been and will continue to be endemic as long as we continue to live in a not entirely democratic political system, as is the current partitocracy (you only have to see the recent "Bulgarian-style" congress of the PP, where Feijóo got a better vote than Kim Jong-un in the "elections" of his country).
The first big problem is that Sánchez has overthrown all the institutions of the country, sinking them until they are less credible than those of any sub-Saharan country.
To many people, this of the independence and strength of "the institutions" sounds like Cantonese Chinese or binary code, but a country is only just and prosperous, where its institutions are solid and independent. ¿Why? because it is the only thing that guarantees that a country does not become an authoritarian and arbitrary state. This is not an opinion, it is historical evidence.
Without strong and independent institutions, there are no balances of power and without balances of power chaos appears and society falls into the deepest of vilezas.
This is the general and most important concept that many do not understand because they remain in the superficiality that "all politicians are corrupt". Of course many have been and are corrupt. I confirm it to you, corruption is part of the bad design of the regime of '78. But what this president has done is so serious that his recent actions can only be considered as a coup d'état, the third that the country has received in the last 50 years and the first that has been given from the Moncloa itself, which makes it more dangerous than the previous two (1981 and 2017).
The second great reason to name Pedro Sánchez Castejón persona non grata in Lanzarote is that he is the main culprit of the housing crisis that the country and Lanzarote in particular are experiencing. The worst housing crisis in Spain since the fifties, after the fateful civil war.
Of course, the housing crisis is a complex, long-term and multifactorial phenomenon that has its roots in the real estate bubble, where the excess of supply not supported by the fundamentals of the time (its support was an artificial cheap credit), has become a dramatic lack of supply for the lives of so many people. People no longer aspire to buy a house or rent a home, but sigh for a fucking room. People cannot become independent, have a family or even get divorced.
¿And what is Pedro Sánchez doing in this general phenomenon of the Western world and which is also multifactorial? Well, even knowing (the whatsapps with Ábalos attest to this), he has chosen to sink Spanish society, and in particular its young people, into the deepest real estate misery, legislating in favor of squatters and large property owners and against normal, ordinary people. He has made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
To be understood: it is as if there is a fire and an arsonist decides to throw more gasoline on the fire. That has been Sánchez. But not out of ignorance, which could still be forgiven, but with malice to stay in power and legislate with political slogans of the mental height of four-year-old children.
In short, thanks to Pedro, as this media reported this week, the price of housing in Argana, the most affordable on the island, has skyrocketed by 25% in just one year. Many people, who usually understand almost nothing, believe that it is because of vacation homes (a minor and easily controllable factor) or because of "wild capitalism" (a puerile thought to say the least). But for any reasonable person with sufficient understanding and memory, the main culprit is called Pedro Sánchez, the great social and real estate arsonist of this 21st century Spain.
And these two great, substantial and not symbolic reasons to name persona non grata to Pedro Sánchez, are summarized in that Pedro Sánchez Castejon is a bad person, who does not look after the good of the citizens or the general interest, but only seeks to stay in power at any price, resembling more a malevolent character of the Middle Ages, than a president of a European and modern country of the XXI century.
And since many do not understand it, it is absolutely necessary to make it official and shout: !to the thief, to the thief!
The question that remains is ¿on which side of this whole story is Coalición Canaria going to position itself in the Cabildo de Lanzarote?, ¿with the decent people of the street or will it be portrayed next to the batasunos and cronies of Pedro Sánchez, the satrap?
