Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 22:42:28 GMT -6
The sensation is what accompanies great events. The Madrid regional elections on May 4 are presented as a watershed that will define whether Madrid institutions remain in the swamp of corruption, inequality and hatred to which the reactionary Madrid right have led us or emerge from it with proposals for a Madrid welcoming, respectful of differences and supportive of those who need more protection and care. We continue with institutions at the service of the privileges, businesses and blows of the powerful or we provide ourselves with autonomous power committed to strengthening public goods and the rights of all citizens. Or the freedom to hate those who are different and despise the poor or the freedom that equals citizenship in opportunities and obligations. The answer, my friend, is at the polls.
The day after, whatever the electoral result, half of Madrid's citizens will feel defeated and frustrated. But there will be a big difference loaded with repercussions. If the right wins, they will continue to pick at the wounds of a tense society and weave that dense network of complicities, corruption and shenanigans that has allowed the PP to govern the Community of Madrid since 1995. If it is the left that gains the most Belgium Mobile Number List votes, they will have to recover the coexistence, suture the wounds caused and offer more protection and rights to citizens and, especially, because this is how a decent society recognizes itself, to the most vulnerable sectors. In recent years, the Madrid political scene and actors have changed substantially. In the last two elections to the Madrid Assembly, in 2015 and 2019, the right won by very little and the result of the polls was very close, in both cases, to a technical tie.
In the last year, the increase in tension has transformed the political debate into chaos, encouraging part of the citizenry to entrench themselves in irreconcilable political identities or to disengage from politics and politicians. This is what polarization has: it prevents debate, narrows the field of doubt and inclines voters to ignore reasons, believe suspicions and deny facts. This is how the borders between right and left are made waterproof. Therefore, a significant transfer of votes between the two large blocs of the left and the right would be strange; The votes will move fundamentally between the parties of each bloc. All progressive votes are decisive to remove from the Madrid government the corruption, shenanigans and elitist right-wingism that Ayuso's PP represents Madrid is not right-wing, nor left-wing. Or, put another way, there is a Madrid of the left, a Madrid of the right and a Madrid that lives with its back to politics, because it understands, rightly or wrongly, that politics lives with its back to its concerns.
The day after, whatever the electoral result, half of Madrid's citizens will feel defeated and frustrated. But there will be a big difference loaded with repercussions. If the right wins, they will continue to pick at the wounds of a tense society and weave that dense network of complicities, corruption and shenanigans that has allowed the PP to govern the Community of Madrid since 1995. If it is the left that gains the most Belgium Mobile Number List votes, they will have to recover the coexistence, suture the wounds caused and offer more protection and rights to citizens and, especially, because this is how a decent society recognizes itself, to the most vulnerable sectors. In recent years, the Madrid political scene and actors have changed substantially. In the last two elections to the Madrid Assembly, in 2015 and 2019, the right won by very little and the result of the polls was very close, in both cases, to a technical tie.
In the last year, the increase in tension has transformed the political debate into chaos, encouraging part of the citizenry to entrench themselves in irreconcilable political identities or to disengage from politics and politicians. This is what polarization has: it prevents debate, narrows the field of doubt and inclines voters to ignore reasons, believe suspicions and deny facts. This is how the borders between right and left are made waterproof. Therefore, a significant transfer of votes between the two large blocs of the left and the right would be strange; The votes will move fundamentally between the parties of each bloc. All progressive votes are decisive to remove from the Madrid government the corruption, shenanigans and elitist right-wingism that Ayuso's PP represents Madrid is not right-wing, nor left-wing. Or, put another way, there is a Madrid of the left, a Madrid of the right and a Madrid that lives with its back to politics, because it understands, rightly or wrongly, that politics lives with its back to its concerns.