Great revolutions backwards

Most of the things that happen within political parties are of no interest, no matter how much their leaders may think otherwise. However, there are traditions that she enjoys seeing preserved. In the local PP, for example, they have constantly harassed Catalina Cirer at every point in her long political career, which ended after three decades with an even more humiliating ouster due to the fact that it came from such an indisputably minor figure as Marga Prohens. It occurred within the framework of a government crisis that wasn't really one, but rather a simple repositioning of pieces to bring the government even more in tune with what Vox might demand. "Whatever they might demand" is the closest way to put it, because the Mallorcan Vox delegation regularly implodes, and it's never known exactly who should be dictating to the government what to do. Vox Baleares' crises always end the same way: from headquarters in Madrid, someone (the more provincial journalists in Mallorca like to imagine it's Abascal himself, but it isn't, it isn't) dismantles the current leadership and digitally gives it another name. It's the way of doing politics they have in Torre Pacheco and that cavemen already had. On this occasion, the person blessed with the leadership of the fascist party in the Balearic Islands was Gabriel Le Senne, an individual who neither resigned nor was removed as Speaker of Parliament despite being charged and awaiting trial for a hate crime. However, within Vox, hate crimes must be a merit and requirement for promotion, the inverse of what happens with Catalan in the Balearic Islands' public health system.

However, even with this permanent provisional situation, Vox manages to get the Prohens government to do its bidding. Or to put it another way, a party like the PP, with all its history and importance, is currently incapable of winning a fight against a party of newcomers who can't even sit in their seats without causing embarrassing scenes. This is the weakness of the current PP, which Feijóo (and, by simple proxy, Prohens) personify perfectly.

However, the second triumphant year of the legislature has been sold with great pomp as an unprecedented success and even as a revolutionary stage in the political history of these battered islands. This was bound to happen because, within the general devaluation of language, "revolutionary" is one of the words that has lost the most meaning, and the one that the left has ended up most absurdly gifting to the right.

But perhaps they are right. As explained in a statement by the citizen platform "Mallorca for Living, Not for Speculation," if the Land Acquisition Law is applied to the municipality of Palma as planned, it will lead to an increase of 130,000 inhabitants (a 30% population increase) and the destruction of more than 360 hectares, twice the size of Palma. Needless to say, what will happen if the law itself, with its tricks to legalize existing illegal construction and facilitate new ones, is applied to the most affected municipalities, such as Calvià, Inca, Manacor, or Llucmajor. Perhaps we would indeed be facing a revolutionary change. But not one that would lead to progress, but rather to the collective collapse of our country, while vulture funds and the smart ones on duty take their profits to some tax haven.