"Thank God we are not socialists"

Every week in Parliament ages like a month, and it's not precisely because the Chamber and the Government are machines for transforming Balearic society, nor the economic model, nor the lives of those who have no home or perhaps are left without. Parties live with unusual intensity sterile debates, imposed offenses, absurd nuances, and the voting of non-binding proposals, which would be better called proposals for nothing.

"Thank God I'm not a socialist," proclaimed the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, who usually recalls his Christianity publicly so that no one doubts he is a sensible politician. The Minister of Social Affairs, Sandra Fernández, showed a fine sense of humor and explained to the deputy from MÉS per Mallorca Marta Carrió that "the big difference" between the left and the right is that the right recognizes its mistakes, as if self-criticism were not a characteristic antithetical to the political class in general. The socialist Llorenç Pou displayed a red and yellow plastic bingo to criticize the draw for positions in the Consell de Mallorca's employment pool, while the representatives of Vox highlighted the ideological connotations of the red plastic, as if it were a conspiracy by some radical left-wing group with the intention of sending subliminal messages to who knows whom.

The Minister of Housing and Mobility, José Luis Mateo, continues to adopt measures (without results), and it is not daring to think that in the next plenary session he will assure that the Government is still adopting measures. Mateo was the only one who brought up the Spanish saying, since the Minister of Labour, Catalina Cabrer, did not intervene, and reproached the spokesperson for Més per Menorca, Josep Castells, for taking advantage of "the Pisuerga passes through Valladolid". What had Castells done to receive this correction? Criticizing that the airlines are taking advantage of the 75% discount for residents and demanding the Public Service Obligation (PSO) as a mechanism to set a limit on the prices of tickets that Menorcans have to pay to fly to the Peninsula.

For his part, the Minister of Business, Alejandro Sáenz de San Pedro, enjoyed browsing the internet on his computer, because no one asked him for anything and he went unnoticed, a situation he knows how to handle with great skill.

Le Senne, homophobia and 'president' Cañadas

The President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, was one of the protagonists of the plenary session, especially after he stood in front of IES Portocristo to denounce a mural of kissing couples. According to this institutional position, which should represent all citizens of the Balearic Islands, but only does so with heterosexual Christians, some paintings on a wall promote orientations that could destroy the lives of our children. As if homosexuality could be inoculated. According to Le Senne, one thing is to respect and not kill anyone for their sexual orientation, and another is to go around showing feelings between people of the same sex.

It must be said that the president calmly listened to the accusations of homophobia made against him by some representatives of the left. Perhaps it was simply because he didn't have a photocopy with the image of Pedro Zerolo at hand to tear up. Because if there is anything capable of provoking Le Senne's wrath, it is photocopies.

The Minister of the Presidency, Coordination of Government Action and Local Cooperation, Antònia Maria Estarellas, put on a circumstantial face when the socialist Marc Pons, could intervene before the President of the Government, In another display of a lack of institutionalism, Le Senne allowed the spokesperson for Vox, Manuela Cañadas, to speak before the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, responded to a question from the socialist Iago Negueruela. Cañadas invoked Article 81 of the Parliament's regulations to respond to the allusions Negueruela had made to her person. The PSIB spokesperson had referred to how Vox imposes a discourse of hatred on the PP and cited as an example the Government's decision to withdraw aid from people who do not prove years of residence in the Balearic Islands. "They disrespect all citizens of all of Spain", criticized Cañadas, who knows how to read better than improvise when her microphone is activated. "With this haircut...", she continued to add depth to her speech. And yet Negueruela thought that his new look, with shorter hair, would please the representative of the far-right, as he himself said.

For her part, Prohens took the opportunity to scold Negueruela because the PSIB has spent two weeks compulsively remembering that the president was in the Caribbean while gasoline prices rose thanks to the delusions of Donald Trump in Iran. The president criticized "the spectacle of recent weeks", with constant mentions of her bachata class and qualified the socialists as a "bunch of idiots". "Today he hasn't told me anything because he is so cowardly that he doesn't tell me to my face", remarked Prohens. Perhaps it is that the socialists had already exhausted themselves after so many days repeating it.