Friday 25 January 2008

She could be your mayor.


Ruiz Gallardon has announced that he might leave politics after the May 9 election. It seems he hasn't taken very well the lies, backstabbing and betrayals of his own party colleagues (look at the previous post).


This blog announced a couple of weeks ago that if Gallardon was to resign, horror! Ana Botella, Aznar's wife, would be the next Mayor of Madrid as the current Deputy Mayor. Today, we have one more reason to fear her arrival to the chair of command in the capital's town hall. She has blamed Madrid's smog crisis in the last few days on some kind of 'dust' coming from the Sahara!


Madrid has been suffering a massive smog crisis in the last few days with the town hall advising not to practice outdoor sports and encouraging the use of public transport. Ana Botella, responsible for the mayoral environment portfolio, has denied the need to cut down traffic in the city or look into pollution levels. She instead has blamed the situation on the intrusion of an African hot wind. Most probably the opening of the new M-30 ring road and the unending construction projects going on in the capital have nothing to do with it. Hold on a minute! actually the do, because what has gone up is nitrogen dioxide, produced by cars not 'African dust'. It has gone up 12 times since Saturday over the 220 micrograms maximum levels which aren't supposed to be reached more than 18 times in a year!


That is what PP can offer us, incompetent mayors, incompetent potential mayors and backstabbing presidential candidates. As that Labour poster used to read in 2001, be scared be very scared!

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