We are sure, there is not about what worrying

Ramón Lobo

The Dominican police managed on Thursday night (Friday dawn in Spain) a big success in the struggle against the international terrorism and nobody, so busy all of what he says, does, thinks, eats and descome Barack Obama, he has emphasized it. The Dominican police, with big risk and value, managed to intercept to me a dangerous bottle of Haitian rum Barbancourt of eight years (valued for approximately 20 euros) that there had given me Mat and Pascal, my driver and translator in Port-au-Prince. The agent proved to be firm, insensitive before my requests first and my threats after drinking it to me of a gulp, or several, which it is not necessary to exaggerate either. “There are the international norms”, he said. “The norms are absurd. How is it possible that it could not spend rum for this control and 10 meters further away be able to buy it and fly without risk for nobody. Does any logic see him?”, I affirmed more that to ask. She, with a big sense of the script, added:“ There are the international norms”. And it is already. End of the discussion if you do not want to extend your customs problems to other contents of the baggage.

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(Ramón Lobo has just been a prizewinner with IX Award José Manuel Porquet of Digital Journalism. It is deserved).

A person: a vote?

A simple mathematical exercise, for all those who insist that the Spanish electoral system favors the nationalists. It is a simple account: to divide the number of votes of the last personal details by the number of obtained benches. And this way it is discovered, with a calculator and big stupor, that in Spain there is a party that a deputy takes as every 484.935 votes, and is called an Izquierda Unida. There is other that achieved 306.078 votes for only one delegated, and his name is UPyD. There are several nationalists of left whom it costs approximately hundred thousand votes every bench: Republican Esquerra of Catalunya and the Nationalistic Block Galego. There is a nationalistic party of rights that a deputy obtained for every 77.942 votes: Convergence and It Joined; and another, Canary Coalition, which achieved two benches to 87.314 votes each one. And there are two big parties, the kings of the chamber, for whom every bench has gone out for approximately 66.700 votes: Spanish socialist party and PP.

Only the PNV, to 51.021 votes for every bench, and Nafarroa Bai, to 62.398 votes, obtains deputies at better price. But if the vote in Spain was proportional, the nationalistic parties, in whole, two more deputies would obtain; IU-ICV would have 13 benches and not two; UPyD, 5. But Spanish socialist party and PP would lose between 8 and 9 benches each one.

Last week, the lideresa of UPyD, Rosa Díez, presented in the Congress a proposal not of law to ask the Government to reform the electoral law. For almost two years, there is employed at the Parliament a subcommittee that will present a reform proposal some day, or one waits for that; the contracting subcommittee of the first part does not seem to be in the hurry. It is not necessary to have a calculator to foresee for what every deputy voted: only IU and UPyD endorsed the motion. So that then they say that the consensus is impossible.

The deathblow one will give his Batasuna to ETA

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January and February there have been the two worst months of the history of ETA. Because there have been detained 32 members of the terrorist band, one of them his maximum chief; because they have taken control of 2.000 kilos of explosives; because a base has been located to them in Portugal; because one has prevented from mounting a base in Catalonia … But also, and about this we have spoken little the mass media, because his political and social supports, the world of Batasuna, they have begun to move away from the terrorists.

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The crisis is federal

Financial Times has published another article about the Spanish economy where they say to the Government of less nice everything. The Bible of City Londinense transforms again in the vindictive god of the ancient testament and, after the flirtatious comments that he dedicated to the Shoemaker's Executive after the visit of Helen Salgado, it returns to the criticism. In only one month, Spain first was a potentially more serious “drama” than Greece; eight days later, we turn in a country “better Prepared than the United Kingdom” to confront the crisis; and now, three weeks later, we are a small country again of giving credit. “The markets prepare themselves to punish Spain”, it titled the Financial Times on Sunday in one of these dangerous predictions that are fulfilled alone.

In spite of everything, they have something of reason in London, where from they indicate three problems in the plan of austerity of the Government. The first one, that his economic forecasts are too optimistic. The second one, that most of the public expenditure is in hands of the autonomies and the town halls, not of the Government. The third one, that the Socialists lack the political will necessary to carry out it.

The points one and three are debatable, even more when those who put the finger on these ulcers are the same that nothing does they were praising both to the doctor and to his recipe. But the second problem is an obviousness that in Spain forgets constantly. We deceive ourselves with the name. But, beyond the euphemism of the "autonomies", the true thing is that we live in the federal state, where big part of the weapon to reactivate the economy – now when the central bank is in Fráncfort – has the autonomic governments. That's why the contest of the PP is so important against the crisis; that's why his position is so irresponsible.

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