Post by account_disabled on Feb 28, 2024 5:51:27 GMT -5
Last Sunday, January 'El País' published an interview with Yolanda Diaz. Two interviews actually, the first about the Labor Reform with which I feel fully identified. A second one about her project De ella (Platform, Party,…?) . A confusing project but one that has sparked a lot of interest and a lot of hope, which is a clearly positive phenomenon. The project of Yolanda Diaz, or that headed by Yolanda Díaz, gives rise to a clear disagreement in me, and, since Yolanda says that she wants to consult the citizens, I am going to give my opinion as an open letter, in response to her question adorned with statements in said interview that I hope not to take out of its context and that I don't know if they clarify it or confuse it: “ I think our country is tired of political projects”, “I think society…does not want more politicians”, “I am not in a political project ”. “ This is not a political project, I think it is a social project .” And she also states “ I don't want to run for election ”, although I suppose she is willing to sacrifice, in any case it seems that way. Well, I believe, an important discrepancy, that, although Yolanda does not believe it, what she does and says is political, and she must have the courage to assume it.
It is, it cannot be anything else, a political activity, politics understood as an activity aimed at making collective decisions in the “polis”, what the Athenians affirmed should be achieved with the exercise of “democracy” for the government of public affairs. It is true that there are politicians and political initiatives that provoke rejection, even disgust, but this must be Malta Phone Number contrasted with honest politics, the exercise of democracy, another politics . Because the worst policy, the prelude to the worst anti-democratic drifts, is precisely the rejection of politics, which in practice means allowing it to be exercised by others, the de facto powers already installed in society. Significant and worrying is, for example, in this sense that the recent Opinion Poll of the Institute of Political and Social Sciences (ICPS) of the UAB indicates that in 2021 Catalonia shows the maximum disinterest in politics in the last decade: 55 .4% of citizens. And since we are invited to talk, allow me some considerations. I understand that we are experiencing an exceptional moment in the history of democracy in Spain, with the most progressive government since the end of the.
Franco dictatorship, a government that is managing to go through the very tough test of the pandemic with important legislative work with more than 30 laws already approved and other Decree Laws, which has meant a notable advance in individual and collective rights, from a government coalition without a stable parliamentary majority. Once the Budgets have been approved again, these for this year 2022, we, the government and also all citizens, have important challenges in sight: Parliamentary validation of the Labor Reform and its effective application, important laws in process such as Citizen Security, Housing, Sexual Freedom, the new Minimum Wage, the application of European Funds, the battle against Climate Change,..., at the same time as the permanent battle against the virus, against the rise in inflation, the cost of energy … Faced with all this, what I understand as necessary citizen involvement is not proposed by the coalition parties as an essential objective. There does not exist, nor does it seem to be intended, a strong political organization that channels citizen concerns and will, that develops a permanent dialogue with the institutions to overcome the inevitable obstacles, to establish priorities, to weigh in decision-making, to intervene in the objectively permanent negotiation that the exercise of government entails.
It is, it cannot be anything else, a political activity, politics understood as an activity aimed at making collective decisions in the “polis”, what the Athenians affirmed should be achieved with the exercise of “democracy” for the government of public affairs. It is true that there are politicians and political initiatives that provoke rejection, even disgust, but this must be Malta Phone Number contrasted with honest politics, the exercise of democracy, another politics . Because the worst policy, the prelude to the worst anti-democratic drifts, is precisely the rejection of politics, which in practice means allowing it to be exercised by others, the de facto powers already installed in society. Significant and worrying is, for example, in this sense that the recent Opinion Poll of the Institute of Political and Social Sciences (ICPS) of the UAB indicates that in 2021 Catalonia shows the maximum disinterest in politics in the last decade: 55 .4% of citizens. And since we are invited to talk, allow me some considerations. I understand that we are experiencing an exceptional moment in the history of democracy in Spain, with the most progressive government since the end of the.
Franco dictatorship, a government that is managing to go through the very tough test of the pandemic with important legislative work with more than 30 laws already approved and other Decree Laws, which has meant a notable advance in individual and collective rights, from a government coalition without a stable parliamentary majority. Once the Budgets have been approved again, these for this year 2022, we, the government and also all citizens, have important challenges in sight: Parliamentary validation of the Labor Reform and its effective application, important laws in process such as Citizen Security, Housing, Sexual Freedom, the new Minimum Wage, the application of European Funds, the battle against Climate Change,..., at the same time as the permanent battle against the virus, against the rise in inflation, the cost of energy … Faced with all this, what I understand as necessary citizen involvement is not proposed by the coalition parties as an essential objective. There does not exist, nor does it seem to be intended, a strong political organization that channels citizen concerns and will, that develops a permanent dialogue with the institutions to overcome the inevitable obstacles, to establish priorities, to weigh in decision-making, to intervene in the objectively permanent negotiation that the exercise of government entails.