"We comply"

When I was running El Adelanto, a team of journalists from Salamanca analyzed the performance of the municipal budget. For egregious anger the mayor, Julian Lanzarote, it was found that half of his term had only reached 40% of the electoral program. The municipal interpreted as sarcasm my congratulations to say, "Do not worry too much, since nobody, at the end of his term, there is usually delivered over 60% of what was promised, so congratulations."

The argument I used corresponds to a more than proven. And that goes for the slogan of the PP in the act of homage to Paco Camps on Saturday: "We comply". Yes, but more or less. As everyone.

Zapatero also stressed at the beginning of this dreadful legislature were economically surpassing Italy and, later, that some day we would reach Germany. And you see.

Promise made by the Registrar of PSPV-PSOE, Jorge Alart, announced last week that if elected president of the 250,000 jobs created, no more, no less. Since man has less chance of winning the regional elections in North Korea get the World Cup in South Africa, the Socialist leader can promise calmly what you want: to each voter a Jaguar and a paid vacation in the Seychelles, if the case.

The bad thing is when you are in power. And not for that evil phrase attributed to the late mayor of Madrid, Enrique Tierno Galvan - "election promises are made to be broken" - but by the same logic of events. First, because he always promises more of what can be done in order to achieve this the undecided voters and the faint-hearted. Second, because the very changed circumstances upsets the best intentions.

That is something that neither Zapatero nor Camps, or anyone, including Barack Obama has squandered much of his political glamor as exercise had to be controlled or government-guaranteed. For this reason, both Zapatero and promised Camps fanfare at the time that would achieve full employment in this term and already we see: Spain is ahead of unemployment in the EU and our community happens as much within the Spanish state.

So no party has fulfilled his promise and, in this situation of a prolonged and deep economic crisis, is capable of being able to fulfill. Be the PP or the PSOE as head of government, with or without Camps Camps, Valencia has a difficult to deal with debt, have a chronic deficit in welfare issues, fails to plug the drain of unemployment, public works, from the? gora Hospital of the Faith are delayed on the agreed deadlines and cost more than budgeted. And so forth.

The trouble with be, lies not only in this list of shortcomings, correct, like everything in life, but that the political opposition does not seem legitimate to criticize, because his party is engaged in similar or worse problems.

In other words, that the happy slogan unfortunately principle could be replaced by another that says, "We do not meet nor her aunt." And this time it really was true.