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The imaginative President Prohens wanted to mark the summer solstice with a truly spectacular outpouring of projects and investments. Not surprisingly, as everyone knows, Midsummer Night is a magical night, and this year there was no need to wait for the Three Kings to spread "dreams."

The "magic," in this case, takes the form of a supposed €3.8 billion plan. A truly prodigious gift from heaven. To put this figure into context, the 2025 budget of the autonomous community—the one Vox has agreed "alone" with the PP—amounts to €7.469 billion.

The plan was presented to society in a well-designed ceremony and with a very interesting video entitled Islands in transformation, which includes all castes of renders, simulations, virtual images, fictional recreations, imaginary locations... at the service of a visual narrative that conjures the future.

Inspiring images of the Tramuntana mountain range—where, incidentally, illegal urban development will now be pardoned, even in protected areas—and seductive music accompany the announcement of all the blessings that will befall the country, underscored by a fine rhetoric: a historical perspective...

The president will lead the event with her trademark eloquence and gestures, but with the fiery intensity she reserves for grand occasions. "Of course, not the fiscal balance," "Luckily, we're going to fix it now," "The country deserves a president like me."

The episode received widespread media coverage, and some outlets even spent the following days presenting the same projects and figures under different approaches: now by sector, now by island, now by town, now in alphabetical order... We can't blame them; they learned it directly from the president.

Surprises, as we've already said, there weren't any, a small handicap in the presentation, it must be said. The whole thing had a somewhat worn-out feel. Partly because they opted once again for the traditional popular staging—"free among thistles" on a navy-blue scaffold and azure background in the display usual—and partly because all the projects had already been presented and performed several times, and there wasn't the slightest scoop. Beyond the magic number, of course, which someone has had the trouble of calculating and recalculating, now like this, now like this.

I admit that my favorite "unprecedented investment" is in Education: 600 million euros, 77 new centers, 60 expansions, 158 renovations, and the creation of 1,554 places for children aged 0 to 3. This hypothetical Educational Infrastructure Plan had already been pompously presented—with a scaffold and azure backdrop, naturally—just a year ago. It's not another 600 million. It's the same 600 million. Nonexistent, by the way.

The exercise basically consists of imagining infrastructures, speculating on investments, inventing fictitious plans, drawing implausible maps with lots of dots... and, above all, ensuring that everything is 10, 15, or 20 years in the future, so that one never has to answer for flagrant non-compliance.

In Education, a future of fabulous figures is predicted for 10 or 20 years. The reality, however, halfway through the term, is rather precarious: closure of the IES Politécnico, 900 students in grades 0-3 without a place in the last enrollment process... or the case of the brand-new CEIP Tramuntana—the first school facility in Palma in 20 years—which began operations last year but will ultimately only offer 225 students due to a decision by the Regional Ministry.

Not to mention the impossible projects, such as the two announced trains: the one in Llucmajor, which is supposed to bury a third of the 30-km route; and the one in Alcudia, which plans to cut through two entire mountains. And this in a country where every step, no matter how small, entails unbearable delays: closing an illegal gas station, processing a municipal ford... or implementing one's own flagship measures: opening the anti-squatter office, processing the announced Kangaroo Check...

Now "governing" means "projecting." And telling it over and over again. Like the 300 million project for Playa de Palma: 35 projects for 300 million. "Playa de Palma."

Who says utopian politicians no longer exist? These are. They wouldn't let reality sway them for anything.