{"id":8069,"date":"2019-01-05T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/?p=8069\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:57:46","slug":"something-is-wrong-with-the-generalitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanserif.es\/en\/something-is-wrong-with-the-generalitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is wrong with the Generalitat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Font: Tribuna Libre<\/a><\/p>\n

Tony Judt was right when he gave his impassioned plea to revive collective values and political commitment the title \u2018Something is wrong\u2019, according to a Google Books\u2019 review. And even more so was the one who decided to include it in the scenography of the year end speech of the Generalitat Valenciana.<\/p>\n

Something is wrong when books that are presumably the President\u2019s own, abound in his office. Indicative of the fact that he does not employ the time he spends there to work but rather to read marxist political thinkers and poetry reading matters. It is always a good thing that a president reads, but it makes no sense that he does so during working hours, not to mention that it is disrespectful to the citizens who elected him.<\/p>\n

Ranging from revival, longing, and criticism of the capitalist system, Puig\u2019s office\u2019s book catalogue is worthy of a monograph. Notes that sketch a political figure with an affected smile so perfectly summarized by Francisco Brines in his \u2018Romancillo del Pasado\u2019 (A Little Romance from the Past) that in all likelihood Ximo Puig reads and re-reads while snacking on oranges and clementines from the Comunitat Valenciana. The ones that he has within reach. It could be a subliminal message to Juan C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s political party that can decide whether Puig will be able to continue reading in his office for another four years or not.<\/p>\n

Titles like \u2018Contra el fanatismo\u2019 (Against fanaticism), by Amos Oz; \u2018La identidad cultural no existe\u2019 (Cultural identity does not exist), by Fran\u00e7ois Julien; \u2018Entre dos nadas\u2019 (Between two nothings), by Francisco Brines; \u2018En defensa de la ilustraci\u00f3n\u2019 (Defending illustration), by Steve Pinker; \u2018El orden del d\u00eda\u2019 (The order of the day), by Eric Vuillard; \u2018Requiem por el sue\u00f1o americano\u2019 (Requiem for the American dream), by Noam Chomsky; \u2018Ernest Lluch\u2019, by Joan Esculies, or \u2018Algo va mal\u2019 (Something is wrong), by Tony Judt.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s true. Something is wrong. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scenography in which the President\u2019s work takes place, traditionally dedicated to private business meetings and hearings, is a real puzzle of what Ximo Puig\u2019s mind conceals. A self-centered politician unable to accept the passing of time and more concerned about the epidermis than the crux of the matter.<\/p>\n

For example, let\u2019s dwell for a moment in the election of a ceramic plate from Manises as a centerpiece. A memory of the glorious past of a dilapidated industry and a painful oblivion of the past of \u00c1lcora, Onda, or Paterna, just to mention some with similar importance. A pity that among the books in which his speeches and interventions are drawn on, none is about the ceramic industry or, at least, a catalogue of the Gonz\u00e1lez Mart\u00ed National Ceramic Museum and Sumptuary Arts to describe the magnificence of this sector and its geographical influence in Alicante, Castell\u00f3n, and Valencia.<\/p>\n

Something is wrong when the President\u2019s red quill \u2013of course- reigns on his desk to sign \u2018important agreements\u2019 like the Botanical Pact. Important for Ximo Puig, that is. A Faustian pact that got him the Generalitat\u2019s chair at the expense of paying off the culture, education, and social services. Or to sign the pact for a fair system of financing that has remained dead letter.<\/p>\n

Something is wrong when a picture of the hurried visit the prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, paid to the acts of the Dia de la Comunitat (Region Day) to bestow the Alta Distinci\u00f3n upon Carmen Alborch, who died a few weeks later, stands out in his office. And it\u2019s wrong because it\u2019s not a remembrance of Carmen, which would make sense. But because it\u2019s a claudication before the one who commands the Spanish Socialist ship, who spent just two hours here while he sets up mini peaks and showers other autonomies with investments.<\/p>\n

That picture that stands out in Ximo Puig\u2019s office of someone who only comes to Comunitat Valenciana to enjoy concerts in Benic\u00e0ssim International Festival (FIB) or bestow medals on former socialist ministers, and whose policies, to all intents and purposes, cut back on transfers, maintained highway\u2019s payments, offer no response to underfunding in the Comunitat and conclude the year with constraints on the growth of Cava Valenciano (Valencian champagne).<\/p>\n

If a picture is worth a thousand words, we could mute the television because there was enough noise in the staging set for Ximo Puig\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n

I would have really liked another speech. One taking place in the actual area where Ximo Puig carries out his work and not in a papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9 set that, like in fallas, of how grotesque it was, he gave a very realistic political profile.<\/p>\n

At least he remembered to support gender equality and made mention of it in a relevant day. The rest was a listing of glorious deeds for Puig but banal for Valencian society, from the approval of the additional provision so that the State investments in this community equal the demographic weight of the region, which to all intents and purposes doesn\u2019t entail the funding received will be modified, to the budgets approval \u2018for the fourth time in due course\u2019, when the tripartite holds the majority in the chamber and it\u2019s every administrator\u2019s duty to get budgets off the ground so as to guarantee the administration operates properly.<\/p>\n

If those are the Consell\u2019s achievements, as citizens from Valencia we would appreciate it if elections were called for as soon as possible in order to elect other representatives.<\/p>\n

\n

Always looking back<\/p>\n

missing who I was<\/p>\n

and when I was, I didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I must have been very happy,<\/p>\n

for I wouldn\u2019t mind<\/p>\n

go back to that kind of living<\/p>\n

with the same unawareness<\/p>\n

of not knowing about me<\/p>\n

but, to the passing of time,<\/p>\n

which was all I lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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