The Corts still Rentals

The next plenary will be in Las Corts yet undetermined date in February. If no one remedy, and no one will-their lordships will have taken two long months of Christmas holidays.

Not bad in a community where half a million people if they do not work is because they find employment. And do not pretend to demagoguery, but in late March that will end the current Legislature, due to the May 22 elections, and Las Corts not reopen until next summer.

You see: which is falling and our deputies did nothing. Treatment: pre-election this time many of them are busy maneuvering and countless lobbying in elbowing and tripping in order to achieve a starting position in the lists of their respective political party.

Perhaps this is one way to do unjustly cruel things. You can, because many members are left tabs in the work, but the image of the empty seat Benicarló Palace is lost in a time of crisis. Nor is uplifting vision for many interventions plenary chamber, deputies flipping through the press, talking on the phone or check your computer.

In that, I must say, his attitude does not differ from that of his colleagues in Congress or other regional parliaments. But its effect is not the best at this time, nor that the electronic mailboxes of many lordships return the e-mails to be without service: not made public precisely to be available to the public?

In our case, chance would have it two events considered trivial at another time come now to pour more salt in the wound. I mean, firstly, the completion of the new marble palace facade, for 10 million euros, expands headquarters in Las Corts full preaching austerity. The other event is the backroom approval last December for the compensation of members of parliament not to repeat.

A month and a half short of the amendment approved by the Valencian PP, Mariano Rajoy will and proposes to remove the pension privileges of Members. In other words: to end practices that contribute to politicians to be the third problem for the Spanish, according to the CIS surveys. It is curious-by the way, incidentally, that when Rosa Díez made a similar proposal last year and half the PP is the pass through the lining. It also draws attention to the left is objecting to cuts in arguments as pilgrims such as Cayo Lara: that these pensions only serve as a complement to Santiago Carrillo life -96 years, and others like him who "could not contribute for political conditions they endured. "

But getting back to the work of our members, we should not complain too much: the missing journalist Indro Montanelli quipped at the time about the uselessness of politicians claiming that worked best when Italy was between the fall of a government and the appointment of another.

Maybe he was right and, therefore, that your Lordships still on vacation all the time they want.