We live the World Cup and elections every four years, yes – when we don’t have to go ahead, in the case of elections. I remember that in the time of Naranjito – which would seem to have lasted for decades – we spent all our playing periods changing chromes with each other. That most of the boys had or dreamed of being a footballer like that in four years. Four years, then, because it was a lot. We didn’t know what that time of year meant, so in four years we were going to do great things! They were dreams, dreams legitimized by childhood!

Even the ones that are proposed to us in the elections, they are also dreams. Believe that they are more or less real, leave it to the reader.

As Beñat says, as in the World Cup, even in the current elections, the champions, the favourites, the winners, the followers, the innovators, who will play the dirty game... will appear and repeat themselves.

According to surveys conducted in a first approach, unemployment is currently the first concern of the population of the Spanish State. As rarely, ETA’s responsibility for terrorism has stagnated at a second or third level – even in pre-ceasefire surveys. We are already looking for a team or a party that will fight unemployment. I don’t know if parents or young people – or both – participated in this survey. And I’m talking about young people – mainly from the 19th to the 25th – at the Work Cafés held a few months ago in Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz under the title Young people and the media, because we came to some curious conclusions: to know that the media gives the most sinister side of youth. In other words, that only pessimistic news is offered: exceptions; curiosities. And, in its generalization, the one who considers youth “something strange, incomprehensible and uncomfortable”, with an influence on the mediocre image of the youth that this implies.

We have also known programs such as “I and I”, made about a marginal world of young people. Or, on the other side, we see those who have succeeded. Especially those who have or have become stars and acquaintances in the practice of sport. We place the young man, therefore, in two very distinct extremes: either among the media stars, or what we have been taught to undermine in the media ghettos.
In recent days, however, more than one report has been published – mainly in written media – on the situation of young people of the generation I-I or Not-I and, of course, with them, those who say and do yes in the same generation. I found the data amazing. Rather than being able to confirm the number of “yes” that are more than “ni” – at least in the Basque Country – when realizing how little hope those who say “yes” place in these four-year periods.
The older generations have always heard us say bad things about the new ones. Because the Master is beautiful in his time and knows and understands less of the new. Without realizing, however, that the new generations, young people, are multiplied and augmented or extended copies of previous editions.

This time, something seems to be changing. A sign that the elections are coming?