Since the general elections will be in December this year, whenever there are elections, it is said that those elections will be decisive for the future. Come, they are transcendental. But, unfortunately, we are in such a universal situation that consulting people on local or regional issues seems like child’s play.
It is clear that these issues are important, only that this year 2013 the decisions at these levels are so mediated by better authorities – sometimes by none – that they hardly think about the good of the citizens.
The municipal affairs always depended on the money which the autonomy was deigned to grant. The same autonomy depends on the central power, and this of the European Union. And it is still a global virtue, even if I have arrived at WHO. But now, with the pandemic and all the serious consequences that have followed, everything seems like a collection of minutes, although it is not. The degree of impotence at these levels is such that very few questions depend on them alone. Each and every time. Because they will tell what the municipal or regional administration can do about the problems that generally affect citizens today. Very few. We ask, we ask and we ask. They will tell me what urban planning can do with the problems of prolonged drought and torrential rains, with food, with electricity, with gasoline, gasoline or pandemics.
Urban courts depend on independent governments and these are
through the national government, which in turn is subject to the European Union
We are now also in the EU, in which we rely on many things. And as things stand, there should still be (if humanity were more generous) global bodies with executive power, since there are already enough problems (e.g. climate change) that can only be handled from a global perspective. Yes, that seems to lead to a universal dictatorship, that is the danger. But the artificial fights of the parties, where some blame everything on others, are nothing more than the infantilism that we voters must suffer.
In short, it’s not the things that worried us before the ‘new normal’ that should worry us now. This blue planet has global problems that are gradually breaking our lives. And before them the regional and municipal politicians are little less than gifts.
