In 1872, the Paris newspaper Le Temps published in installments one of the most famous novels by a great French writer: Jules Verne.<\/p>\n
That novel, entitled \"Around the World in Eighty Days\", told of a bet made by a wealthy English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, with his colleagues from the Reform Club: he bet half his fortune that he would be able to give around the world in just 80 days.<\/strong> The last leg of that eventful journey began in New York City, aboard a steamship called \"Henrietta.\" During the crossing of the Atlantic, and because of the rush of the English gentleman, the fuel ran out.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fogg was not willing to lose the bet, so he bought the ship and ordered all its wooden parts to be burned to make it to port by any means possible.<\/strong> Finally, the \"Henrietta\" arrived in Queenstown, Ireland, from where Fogg went by train to Dublin and then took a boat to Liverpool. The \"Henrietta\" was left behind in Queenstown, a mere useless skeleton.<\/strong><\/p>\n I couldn't help but remember that story written by Verne watching the latest news on the electoral campaign of the Spanish Socialists. Pedro S\u00e1nchez has been pulling rabbits out of his hat for weeks now<\/strong> in the form of \"gifts\" that we taxpayers pay for him to buy votes<\/a>. First it was to finance 50% of Interrail for young people from 18 to 30 years old. After announced<\/a> that the Official Credit Institute (ICO) will guarantee 20% of the mortgage for people under 35 and families with children. And yesterday it announced a \"social advance\"<\/a> that consists of paying part of the tickets cinema for those over 65 years of age.<\/p>\n This indecent way of buying votes is not new. In ancient Rome they called this \"panem et circenses\" (bread and circus)<\/strong>, a policy that consisted of buying the people's favor by giving them gifts or entertaining them with shows. Sanchez needs to resort to such a pathetic trick after exploding in his hands his pacts with Bilbu, which has 44 terrorists in its candidacies<\/a> for the local elections on May 28. Now he has to invent whatever it takes so that the media doesn't talk about it. And S\u00e1nchez does not know how to do anything other than generate headlines with waste.<\/strong> It is what he has been doing since 2018.<\/p>\n In the end, S\u00e1nchez is doing with Spain what Phileas Fogg did with \"Henrietta\": subordinating everything to his personal interest<\/strong>, which is to win the next general elections (local elections would simply serve as an electoral springboard ) at any price. The big difference between the two is that Fogg spent his money, while S\u00e1nchez squanders the money of all Spaniards<\/strong>, in a shameless attempt to buy the votes of the citizens with the taxes that they themselves pay . After the elections, we are all going to have to pay for this indecent vote-buying by an unscrupulous ruler<\/strong> who only cares about himself.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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