In the end, the blame for the saturation will be Zapatero's

One year from the end of the legislature, the Government remains installed in the rhetoric of the past and the promise of future management

Francina Armengol and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at an event of the former president of the Spanish government in Mallorca in the year 2023.
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The legislature of 'containment' is heading towards its final stretch with a record number of tourists, of embezzlement, resident discontent, and housing prices in an escalation whose end does not seem near. However, if there is one thing the Government is clear about, it is that it is not its fault, and it is true. To say that the Executive is not to blame for having reached this point is almost an obviousness, but the problem is that politics does not end with the diagnosis. The Government is not to blame, but responsible for thinking, designing, developing, and implementing measures to rectify the situation. If the measures do not work, new ones must be tried. The collapse is not solved only with discussions in Parliament.

The PP followed the usual logic of political strategy and took every opportunity to play the card of the implication of former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The award for best interpretation went to the President of the Government, Government President, Marga Prohens, who, not without drama, assured that “time will tell, they will all fall, one by one, and pay for the harm they do to Spain and the Spanish people”. The ministers also mentioned Zapatero's judicial situation, regardless of whether they were talking about a health center or some issue about education. If Def Con Dos sang "the fault of everything is Yoko Ono's", the socialist ex-president can also serve as a scapegoat. Of course.

But the first place in the PP's ranking of culprits, whatever the area, is the previous government. The populars' main argument to support this is that the damage of eight years cannot be fixed in three. The question is not to delve into what has been done in three years, whether there has been any effective measure regarding housing, whether the commitment to raise the ITS did not exist and we actually dreamed it up, and whether setting limits meant not setting them in reality. Examples can be found in the Parliament's plenary session.

To the question from Ferran Rosa (MÉS per Mallorca) about the failure of the Lloguer Segur program, the Minister of Housing, José Luis Mateo, responded at first: "at least solutions are provided. You, zero for eight years." "With four million euros for masks, there would have been enough for a good guaranteed social rent," said the Minister of Health, Manuela García, to the socialist deputy Patrícia Gómez, who was asking him about sanitary transport. In fact, García mentions the Koldo case and the mask case in the Balearic Islands at every plenary session, as well as the doctors' strike, especially when it comes to discussing her management.

"We neither grant amnesty to fugitives for seven votes, nor do we provide singular financing, nor do we release terrorists to support a government that does not govern, nor do we have a former president indicted for money laundering," said the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, to Amanda Fernández (PSIB). What was the question that provoked such a varied response and, as Vera often does, at an excessive volume? One about the Catalan language requirement for teachers.

The Minister of Tourism, a man of faith

The word 'rhetoric' does not have a univocal meaning and the dictionary gives five meanings. Thus, if rhetoric is "the art of eloquence", it can be assured that the Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzà, has no knack for rhetoric. But, if it is a "pompous and empty way of speaking", his ability cannot be denied. When Llorenç PouBauzà also had a dialectical (and rhetorical, depending on the definition we prefer) exchange with Bauzà also had a dialectical (and rhetorical, depending on the definition we prefer) exchange with Marc Pons (PSIB), and used phrases worn out after three years of repeating the same thing. "It is essential to guarantee a development model based on economic, social and territorial sustainability," he said, as if it were the first day of the legislature. Perhaps he has not realized that this model has no guarantee because nothing has been done about it. But he believes it, or at least pretends to believe it.

, the accusations of homophobia made against him by the socialist deputy did not sit well with him To conclude, it appears that the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, did not take kindly to the accusations of homophobia made against him by the socialist deputy Ares Fernández. Le Senne did not stop gesticulating while Fernández referred to

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