Once the date of the general elections has been decided, for Sunday, November 29, we are now in full campaign. And the truth is that it is barely noticeable that there is a much greater political resonance than normal. The electoral shambles on both sides continue to predominate in a continuous struggle, to see who is more pleasing to the polls and everything they mean later in this blessed country that we have called Spain for more than two thousand years, eternal Rome.
General elections have always been the best occasion to present the programs of the different parties. With concrete plans, such as the nature of the national electrical system. With more or less renewable energies and discarding, for the future, fossil fuels.
Or the issue of housing is raised, to cover a deficit that is corroding the entire Spanish society. Or it is discussed whether with Title VIII of the Constitution we went too far, creating 17 states of the divided homeland.
Agriculture is hardly talked about now, because despite the importance of the sector that feeds us. Because it is estimated that it is a very small part of our GDP (no more than 4% in value and much less in labor force), which does not influence the evolution of GDP as decisively as before. When it was said – one of Franco’s favorite phrases – “that Spain was an eminent agricultural country.”
Another topic that is developing in recent times is tourism. A business that we all live, suffer and endure, with the saga of sometimes inexplicable philias and phobias, especially for those who live in the main tourist areas of the peninsula and the archipelagos.
We will continue, because in the end it is worth knowing if the electoral consultation is the maximum expression of democracy. We will have to give the matter a second article of life next week.