One day, the socialist Fulanito invited his neighbor, the right-wing Menganito, to his home for dinner and offered him a Spanish tortilla.
Although he was suspicious of his neighbor because he was very cheat, Menganito accepted. While he was chewing the tortilla, he found a very spicy surprise: Fulanito had put chili peppers in it without telling him.
When Menganito was having a hard time because of the chili peppers, Fulanito told him that he was doing a charity fundraiser to support the poor in the neighborhood, and encouraged him to make a donation to this generous cause. The already smarting neighbor had reasons to be wary, but finally Menganito gave him a thousand euros, thinking that he was not going to leave the poor without help because he had a bad relationship with his neighbor.
The next day, Menganito found Fulanito on the stairs of the building: he was carrying a new cell phone. Without giving it much importance, he greeted his neighbor and went up to his floor, where another neighbor said to him: "Have you noticed Fulanito's new cell phone? He told me that yesterday he made a collection to help the poor and, since there was money left over, he was able to give himself that gift". Menganito felt cheated.
A year and a half later, Fulanito invited Menganito to dinner at his house again. Menganito couldn't believe his eyes when he heard the invitation. However, he was curious and agreed. When he arrived at Menganito's apartment, he saw a broken cell phone on a table: it was the new cell phone that the socialist neighbor had bought a year and a half before. Fulanito offered him a Spanish tortilla and Menganito told him that he preferred something else. When he was going to prepare a salad, Fulanito told Menganito that he was preparing another solidarity collection to help the poor. Without saying anything, Menganito opened the door and left.
In the days and weeks that followed, Menganito found that Fulanito was saying that his right-wing neighbor is an unsupportive person who does not want to help the poor and, in addition, is a strange guy who hates the Spanish tortilla.
This fictional story may seem unreal to many, but the same thing is happening with Sánchez's decrees, which claim to be for one thing and then include "surprises" that have nothing to do with it. Yesterday, Congress rejected two decrees approved by the government with the votes of the Popular Party, Vox and Junts and, in one of the cases, also the PNV. The disaster was not total because the PP supported a third decree.
In the last few hours, the socialist media have been pointing the finger at the PP and Vox, accusing them of rejecting a revaluation of pensions and aid contemplated by the government for the areas affected by the floods of October 29. What the socialist media do not say are the "surprises" that these decrees included, such as the transfer to the PNV of a building owned by España in Paris, an outrageous way of using the State's assets to reward Sánchez's partners.
Pedro Sánchez's government has been blackmailing other parties for years, demanding their support for decrees on certain issues that include measures that have nothing to do with that issue, a form of parliamentary filibustering that has received harsh criticism but that the media close to the government have been hiding, in a way of thanking the aid granted by the government in the form of institutional advertising, paid for with the money of all Spaniards.
If Pedro Sánchez's government really wanted to revalue pensions and approve aid for the floods, which was supposedly the meaning of two of the decrees voted on yesterday in Congress, it would have been enough to limit itself to these issues and not sneak in other things that have nothing to do with it. It has not done so, which shows that for Sánchez and the PSOE, the theoretical concept of these decrees was nothing more than an excuse to achieve other purposes.
In a democracy, a government cannot be allowed to commit such tricks, and the media that support this form of parliamentary blackmail are complicit in the degradation of democracy that Sánchez is causing with these vile practices.
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Photo: PSOE.
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