What a devastating feeling it produces that citizens do not expect anything from legally constituted institutions. Nor of those who say that they will make them work, fulfill the purpose for which they were instituted and generate results, as is natural for the candidates who run for the presidency and vice presidency of the Republic or for a seat in the National Congress.
They say everything, but what is perceived in real life, outside of social networks, is that the general elections on April 30 do not generate expectations or represent a reason to expect changes, or vy’apaguasu, enthusiasm and , even less, of hope.
This is the prevailing electoral climate, and unless some genius emerges beyond the outbursts, personal attacks, and list of bombastic proposals for the time-honored promise to “improve the country,” we may thus arrive on voting day to fulfill the right and the obligation to, once again, elect a new government from the democratic stage of Paraguay, without a shred of illusion. The position of not expecting anything is so obvious that it immobilizes and leads to the dangerous resignation to continue suffering situations of injustice, ineffectiveness, corruption, impunity, general poverty, theft, all that is the property of the State, in all levels and fields.
Yesterday I heard the lawyer for the front members affected by the ill-fated Metrobús project say that he was only uncertain about the fact that seven years later and after a change in the State Attorney General, the former Minister of Works of the Cartes government, Ramón Jiménez, was accused Gaona, and other officials who led the failed project.
Given so many signs of rottenness in the judicial system and in the body that represents Paraguayan society before the courts, such as the Public Ministry, and, with the accumulation of disappointments and indignation caused by these institutions, hardly anyone in this country , unless it is linked to political or economic power, you can be sure or, at least, slightly hope that Justice will punish those responsible for this scam and thousands of thefts and damages to Paraguayan society. Acts committed by those who, according to the Constitution, must watch over the State’s assets.
In the aforementioned case, the people had mobilized before, during and after verifying the way in which they intended to carry out a project of such magnitude, improvising and ignoring the claims and indications that they were doing everything wrong. Including overbilling.
There were formal complaints that were filed in some desks of the Prosecutor’s Office in charge during the questioned administration of Sandra Quiñónez. All the effort made to highlight the squandering of resources and the cries that cried out for justice for the victims of the work, in particular, and the citizenry in general were worn out by so much impunity forged in the Public Ministry itself.
So, what are they talking about when they promise a better country, if every day it is irrefutably demonstrated that instead of a system of separation, balance, coordination and reciprocal control between the three State powers that exercise the Government of the Republic, two Of them, the Executive and the Legislative, get their hands on and manage the one who must deliver justice? And, if there is no justice, everything that is said to happen after August 15 falls on deaf ears. It collapses, it vanishes.
The great challenge and the best contribution that those who are elected on April 30 could make to integrate the Executive and the Legislative or direct the governorships is to recover the trust of the citizen and return to them, little by little with results and without theft, hope and many reasons to feel proud of having been born in this country, and to stop living resigned to not expecting anything.
