Ximo Puig, the politics of common sense, by Josep Cuní

Today more than yesterday but less than tomorrow. The slogan was prescient. It was the reverse of the popular love medal of decades ago. It is valid now for any situation with the possibility of aggravating over time. Inflation, for example.

The weekly purchase means facing prices that are increasingly inaccessible to many budgets. They asked ten euros this week for two peppers packaged in a supermarket chain. One wondered if he would find gold nuggets inside. And imagining a fantasy movie, perhaps inspired by the metaverse, he was ahead of the challenging time. There, when approaching to observe them, ‘Can’t buy me love’ would sound. The provocative vegetables would sing it, encouraging the impotent public. And the depressed collective mood would rise to compensate for the frustration by dancing and chanting to The Beatles. Definitely, big cartoon productions they have been able more than the May of the 68. The imagination to the power.

The reality is that while economists are spinning to the vicious circle of money, far from reassuring us, its readings worry us. Mortgages rise, banks fall and the war continues. Governments try to calm down the spirits hoping that, in their worst nightmare, the sentence of that phrase for lovers is not fulfilled. And they don’t say more because they probably don’t know how to deal with it either. another financial crisis like the one in 2008, whose shadow walks around the planet like the infected from the series ‘The last of us’. The conclusion is that speculators have continued to move outside the institutions and their own rules, leaving us once again helpless. It’s like bringing back the nightmare of the night of the living dead.

To demonstrate the moment, Bloomberg, an economic information chain, has summarized Spanish inflation in paella ingredients. More than 20% increase. To suture the wound, the president of the Valencian Community seeks a commercial agreement that facilitates the shopping cart for families with the lowest incomes. And he does it without the fuss that forced an impatient Spanish vice president to delete the photograph of what he wanted and was not.

Joaquin Francisco (Ximo) Puig Ferrer (Morella, January 4, 1959) also determined that workers with the lowest annual earnings pay less in the tax bracket corresponding to their autonomy and those who earn the most make up for it. And so what seems logical in the eyes of common sense has turned that community into the antithesis of what Isabel Díaz Ayuso applies in Madrid.

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Ximo Puig is once again on his way to the polls that know him so well. Which in the 80s they made him a councilor and mayor of his city. From Els Ports he glimpsed the reality of the province of Castellón first and then broadened his gaze to the entire territory. He defends the model contrary to that of the PP for whose abuse that party continues to pay in an endless chain of corruption trials.

Discreetly and effectively the journalist who left the trade for politics he has recovered the chronicle of a town, even if it is in disagreement with his own, with common sense as the norm. Something increasingly removed from the public game, but more demanded by a citizenry tired of any ‘mascletá’ that is not that of the Fallas.

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