Some time ago El Pais wondered why being accused of corruption seems to work out well for right-wing politicians. Despite numerous scandals partido popular scored significantly better than pesówe in this month’s European elections; and what is more, they outclassed their rivals especially in constitutions where the mayor or even the governor is under fire, as is the case with Valencia’s party stronghold Francisco Camps. Apparently the strategy of victimizing the accused paid off well for them. In Spain’s effectually two party system the idea that an investigation into abuse of public money is a left-wing campaign strategy in concertation with the not so independent judicial institutions finds fertile soil. Partido popular is the party that serves to the wishes of the higher classes, but its electoral base are the working ones who are made to believe their natural representatives want to sell out on the grand heritage of a powerful nation state by allowing certain regions too much autonomy. Thus partido popular is the party of Spain’s empty heartland and the urban centres of Madrid and Valencia and of Galicia, homesoil of its leaders, while pesówe does well in Catalunya, Euskadi and the South where a long history of poverty and suppression won’t that easily be forgotten. For the time being and thanks time for that, the nation is run by pesówe, who operate a minority government with strategical support of smaller left-wing parties and Catalunya’s centrist nationalist party CU (as in Prince). Popular leaders have already threatened to ask parliament a vote of confidence, hoping to crash the cabinet and enforce new elections upon us. The upper middle class and those who pretend to belong there, not few of its leaders amongst them, keep telling us they have the answers to the current economical crisis. Sofar they haven’t told us what these answers are and nobody really wants to know. Most likely they surround putting the weight of the crisis on the shoulders of the weak by laying off workers and lowering wages to save their businesses at the cost of Spain’s vulnerable social fabric. Meanwhile the government maintains its policy of modernizing the country’s laws while turning a blind eye on the growing costs of the downturn. Especially industry and construction are hard hit and they drag down everything else with them. You sometimes get the feeling our leaders are hoping a new bonanza will magically occur before it‘s time to call the voters to the booth. But that won’t happen this time, it's game is over. The working classes are preparing themselves to take the hit once again for what the powers have bestowed on them. History is so boring.
vrijdag 26 juni 2009
Boring
Some time ago El Pais wondered why being accused of corruption seems to work out well for right-wing politicians. Despite numerous scandals partido popular scored significantly better than pesówe in this month’s European elections; and what is more, they outclassed their rivals especially in constitutions where the mayor or even the governor is under fire, as is the case with Valencia’s party stronghold Francisco Camps. Apparently the strategy of victimizing the accused paid off well for them. In Spain’s effectually two party system the idea that an investigation into abuse of public money is a left-wing campaign strategy in concertation with the not so independent judicial institutions finds fertile soil. Partido popular is the party that serves to the wishes of the higher classes, but its electoral base are the working ones who are made to believe their natural representatives want to sell out on the grand heritage of a powerful nation state by allowing certain regions too much autonomy. Thus partido popular is the party of Spain’s empty heartland and the urban centres of Madrid and Valencia and of Galicia, homesoil of its leaders, while pesówe does well in Catalunya, Euskadi and the South where a long history of poverty and suppression won’t that easily be forgotten. For the time being and thanks time for that, the nation is run by pesówe, who operate a minority government with strategical support of smaller left-wing parties and Catalunya’s centrist nationalist party CU (as in Prince). Popular leaders have already threatened to ask parliament a vote of confidence, hoping to crash the cabinet and enforce new elections upon us. The upper middle class and those who pretend to belong there, not few of its leaders amongst them, keep telling us they have the answers to the current economical crisis. Sofar they haven’t told us what these answers are and nobody really wants to know. Most likely they surround putting the weight of the crisis on the shoulders of the weak by laying off workers and lowering wages to save their businesses at the cost of Spain’s vulnerable social fabric. Meanwhile the government maintains its policy of modernizing the country’s laws while turning a blind eye on the growing costs of the downturn. Especially industry and construction are hard hit and they drag down everything else with them. You sometimes get the feeling our leaders are hoping a new bonanza will magically occur before it‘s time to call the voters to the booth. But that won’t happen this time, it's game is over. The working classes are preparing themselves to take the hit once again for what the powers have bestowed on them. History is so boring.
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