All politicians tend to react with good reflexes when a misfortune occurs and it is about showing solidarity.
In this trance
it is common for them to travel to the disaster area
-a volcano, a flood, a fire-, make statements with a gesture of compunction and promise immediate aid to alleviate the consequences.
Throughout his mandate, President Sánchez has shown reflexes to appear in places hit by calamity.
The problem is that everything remains in
exhibitionism.
Because when the politician leaves, and the focus with him,
the field is still burned and the neighbors are waiting for help that does not arrive
.
The report that we publish today collects testimonies of victims of the wild fires registered this summer.
The outcry is unequivocal: they feel abandoned after the usual political visits.
and that abandonment
challenges not only the central government
: From the mayor to the regional president, the duty of the leaders is to offer a prompt and coordinated solution to those affected.
The bureaucracy can no longer stand between them and the promised aid, which would thus become an exercise in
electoral calculation rather than managerial responsibility.
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