They are not politicians, they are our workers

Let no one be confused: politicians don't do what they want, but what we let them do. They are our representatives; we elect them to work for us for a few years. But sometimes we forget to ensure that they do their job well, while they disregard their true employers—the citizens—and dedicate themselves to providing services for others—businesses, the macroeconomy, and private interests.

If these oversights become entrenched, politicians find it difficult to accept citizens expressing their dissent. This is what happened at the Palma City Council plenary session in July. You can find it at YoutubeYou can see the mayor of Ciudad, Jaime Martínez, visibly annoyed and angry because some citizens decided to go to the plenary hall to loudly state, at a lectern, that they are not happy with the Cort's urban planning policy and that, no matter how much the municipal government talks about the need to build apartments, some decisions smack more of business than concern for concern's sake.

The parade of reproaches was long and forceful. Evicted people, animal rights activists, residents of Palma's villages... What a bunch of insolent people, who decided to bother the mayor hours before he was about to give the green light to a historic exhibition on Joan Miró that will make Palma the international center of art. A hotbed of caravanners, substandard housing, shacks, people who could lose their homes, a countryside that could be swallowed up by the real estate business... These people will not remain silent, no matter how much they annoy the mayor and councilors, who would do well to better conceal their reluctance to the interventions of social entities.