Trees are green

Parties competing in electoral campaigns often make promises of economic reforms, improvements in social infrastructure etc.

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, vice-president of the Government and socialist candidate to the Congreso por Valencia has gone one better. Yesterday, she announced her formula to combat climate change. In her campaign, she promises to plant 4.5 million trees over the next four years - that's 3,082 trees per day.

Only a week ago the PP candidate for President, Mariano Rajoy announced that his party would plant 500 million trees in Spain over the next four years. That would equate to 50 million trees for the Valencian Community or 32,246 per day.

If both got elected, they could end up having to bulldoze houses to make way for the 54.5 million trees.

For the benefit of my Spanish readers: "trees are green" is a play on words which you read as "Teresa green" referring to her promise to plant trees.