A tragicomic debate
The general policy debate has been a tragicomedy in two acts, of some interest to journalists but completely removed from the public, who have a hard time watching this provincial spectacle with no impact on the real world.
The tragic part of all this has been seeing the far right win the ideological battle regarding migration. The PP has adopted the same tone, and the speech by Prime Minister Marga Prohens was worrying. First, she equated the identity of the Balearic Islands with Christian humanism. When you accompany humanism with a religious adjective, you take away its universality. But if you do so as president in Parliament, you demonstrate that you do not govern for everyone. The cross and any other religious symbol should not enter the doors of any democratic body.
Even sadder is the contradiction between Ms. Prohens's Christian humanism and the inhumane and anti-humanist stance the government has adopted toward migrants, who have never shown any desire to put an end to our identity, basically because they dedicate all their efforts to surviving. They want to defend a country's identity by targeting the weakest, while legislating against the language in which that identity is expressed. Prohens lamented being called a "racist," but she must understand that it is very difficult to dissociate racist discourse from the person who makes it.
The comedy was the same as always. There are deputies who cannot reach the level of oratory of a primary school class representative. Regarding Vox spokesperson Manuela Cañadas, only her three colleagues from parliamentary groups are listening, while the PP and left-wing factions laugh heartily while they speak. Of course, the PP laughs and then takes ideas, as if the trick weren't noticeable.
The spokesperson for the Popular Party, Sebastià Sagreras, has already made a banner of linguistic incorrectness, and week after week he offers us a speech full of barbarisms, poorly conjugated verbs, and expressions that some might describe as somewhat clumsy.
As for the left-wing opposition, they will have to go further during the remainder of this term if they hope to win back votes in the next elections. The PP has many points to return to govern in the next term, largely due to the lack of merit of their rivals.