{"id":8031,"date":"2019-02-23T17:16:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/?p=8031\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:27:11","slug":"the-general-interest-and-pedro-sanchezs-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/the-general-interest-and-pedro-sanchezs-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"The general interest and Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8032 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RetratJgimBN-experimenta-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RetratJgimBN-experimenta-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RetratJgimBN-experimenta-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RetratJgimBN-experimenta-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A new visit to Valencia by Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez is announced and, again, the motivation is self-interest and not a public interest. Maybe because this Madrid-born from Tetu\u00e1n that has reached the skies of national politics through the back door, he is unsure of an essential concept of the political sciences that identifies with the entire social common good as a social body, and not so much with the State\u2019s interest in itself. Least of all with self-interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It feels like Pedro S\u00e1nchez only comes to Valencia to enjoy concerts in the Benic\u00e0ssim International Festival, bestow medals on former socialist ministers, or to take part in the proclamation announcement of Sandra G\u00f3mez as a socialist candidate to the capital\u2019s mayoralty. These events have little to nothing to do with the public interest in contrast with the Government\u2019s intervention which is of importance to this public interest and which has cut back on transfers, maintained highways\u2019 payment, still doesn\u2019t offer a solution to our economy\u2019s underfunding, and concluded the year with constraints on the Valencian Champagne\u2019s growth. Not to mention the fact that there was no mention of investments, almost like when Pedro and his team went to Barcelona for the mini-peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sad thing is that at the end of the day, the news will be how Pedro S\u00e1nchez has come to Valencia rather than what he has done for his citizens. And you know, I actually don\u2019t care how he has come, because if security services give priority to private air transport for the Prime Minister and The Royal Family\u2019s trips, none of us should doubt their criterion. They are professionals and as such, they are the ones who have to assess the adequacy of this means of transportation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surely it sounds odd enough that Pedro S\u00e1nchez needs a Falc\u00f3n, an Airbus, and a helicopter Puma to travel to Valladolid to the Hispanic-Portuguese summit. And that Rajoy could make a similar trip alternating the Airbus, road transportation, and by boat, considering that security professionals don\u2019t switch between governments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The reasons security gives lose even more credibility when from Moncloa they allege that the previous Prime Minister didn\u2019t travel by helicopter because of fear \u2013we must remember the\u00a0\u00a0 occurrence of Mariano and Esperanza-, while in S\u00e1nchez\u2019s case, he has no problems with air transportation, which facilitates compliance with Security\u2019s department\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a matter of fact, we don\u2019t know how S\u00e1nchez will travel down to Valencia this weekend. If he will use the Falcon 9008, the Airbus 310, or one of the helicopters Puma he has lately acquired a taste to or if he will arrive by AVE or by official car in a political containment gesture.\u00a0 What is sure is that he will do it in an official caravan equipped with police sirens, to emerge with his black glasses like a real rock star from the \u201880s. A shoddy imitation, between a black-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, from whom he copied his suit-and-tie combination, not to mention the tragicomedy of the failed attempt; and Barack\u2019s Obama casual-gestural style but with less flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The thing is that, in another contradiction out of all the contradictions we are so accustomed to from the Prime Minister and his team, he comes to our land to anoint Sandra so the socialist Holy Spirit descends upon her, qualifying her to carry out the holy design for which she has been chosen; to save cap I casal\u2019s socialism from a death foretold. And I don\u2019t have memories of another similar visit in a long time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The act will be held in the sports complex located in Cabanyal-Canyamelar from Val\u00e8ncia, with the expectation that Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds \u00c1balos, PSOE\u2019s Ministry of Development and secretary of Organization, attends it as well, along with other Federal Executive\u2019s politicians. An environment that Sandra G\u00f3mez tried to own this week with colorists phrases such as \u201cThey will never get their hands on Cabanyal-Canyamelar\u201d referring to the one she thinks her political rival Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Catal\u00e0 (PP), without realizing that her true rivals are the ones she shares her table with in the mayoralty, the others \u2013PP, Cs, Vox, Poble Democr\u00e0tic\u2026 &#8211; are opponents. A subtle difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If this is the political regeneration blessed by the Messiah Pedro S\u00e1nchez, we Valencians are in trouble. And a dark future awaits Valencia\u2019s PSPV. Neither G\u00f3mez nor Catal\u00e1 seems to have their own discourse. If the only political message is to cry wolf, we already know how the character of the tale ended up. Alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In an election campaign \u2013 especially when there are still several months left to its official advent \u2013 candidates are expected to be propositional and put forward proposals, to talk about doing things and not about what they won\u2019t let others do\u2026 Surely that\u2019s the political baton S\u00e1nchez brings to Val\u00e8ncia and that Puig prefers not to take up in public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But we\u2019re not talking about G\u00f3mez, but about S\u00e1nchez. And about his interpretation of the basic principles in political management. In the administration of a country, in general terms, the concept of \u201cpublic interest\u201d refers to the actions carried out by the government for the benefit of everyone. It is the same as social interest, of public interest, or community usefulness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And I don\u2019t find any of those in Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s visit. A new affront to Valencia citizens because those from Central Executive haven\u2019t bothered in pushing forward a President\u2019s meeting agenda neither with the representatives of Valencia civil society nor with the institutions that are relevant in order to tackle investments and action plans in Alicante, Castell\u00f3n, and Val\u00e8ncia, maybe because he lacks the aforementioned. Or maybe because it is Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019ll be clearer. It\u2019s a shame that Pedro S\u00e1nchez finds room in his agenda to support Valencia mayoral candidate but not to meet, for example, the representatives of Plataforma per un Finan\u00e7ament Just (Platform for a Fair Funding) or to hold a meeting with business associations representative of our autonomy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez used to say that if God hadn\u2019t rested on Sunday, he would have had time to finish creating the world. To think oneself to be God doesn\u2019t warrant resting on a Sunday. And the concept of public interest does not necessarily or directly involve the interest of every individual in a society. At least Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez claimed to have -and re-read- the Quixote in his bedside table. S\u00e1nchez is happy with an iPod to listen to The Killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new visit to Valencia by Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez is announced and, again, the motivation is self-interest and not a public interest. Maybe because this Madrid-born from Tetu\u00e1n that has reached the skies of national politics through the back door, he is unsure of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2236],"tags":[2316,2313,2303,2305,2315,2314,2308,2317,2306,2311,2310,2309,2304,2307,2302,2312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}