typicallyspanish.com

The PP Mayoress of Parcent, the village famed for the "Parcent Doctrin", refused to publicly display the electoral list for the village. The Mayoress's excuse? The list had been "held up" in the post because of the Easter holidays. Instead, when the locals turned up at the town hall to check that they were on the list, the Mayoress ordered the police to view the list on a computer and merely "say" that the name was included. There was no proof given. Strangely, “several dozen� people, foreigners to a man, who thought they were on the list were told they were not. All were given forms to fill out but nothing has been seen of these documents since. A ploy to placate any disquiet? The Mayoress also refused to open the town hall for the number of days legally required for the public to view the list, but at least this open abuse of the democratic process was overcome by the intervention of the regional census office which forced her to open the town hall doors for two hours a day. So what is the Mayoress of Parcent afraid of? Why didn't she simply print the list of names that were “allegedly� on the computer? Who knows? One thing I do know. Democracy will never really take hold in Spain because, whoever is in power, it seems to be in the psyche of Spanish politicians to lie and cheat. They just can't help themselves.