Gary Cooper in Alone in the Face of Danger says one of these emphatic phrases that, without saying anything, say it all, very typical of the Western: “A man has to do what he has to do.” That is to say that, having everything to lose, he faces his rivals, who are more and more implacable, knowing that the type is at stake. Pere Aragonès, in an act of audacity that must be recognized, has decided to appear today in a Senate with an absolute majority of the PP in a session in which the Government and the PSOE have decided to stand down the popular barons.
They have forced a session to address an issue such as amnesty, without even knowing the draft of the law, in the hypothesis that it is finally presented. It is about using the Senate as a loudspeaker in order to try to collapse the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, which have not been concluded in Waterloo.
The president of the Generalitat will have just ten minutes to defend his position in favor of the grace measure. He will be the only one who will argue in this sense in the debate with the eleven regional presidents of the PP.
It is evident that the confrontation will be unequal, but Aragonès must be appreciated for his audacity in entering the political arena to defend his position regarding the amnesty. Surely, ERC is in need of an epic and in the negotiation between JxCat and the Government it is going at a changed pace. However, the Catalan president has decided not to listen to his opponents, although he could stay to listen to one, saving the other ten, who are going to repeat the same litany. Using the Senate as a sounding board for less plural Spain is a contradiction. Mario Benedetti warned it: the worst thing about the echo is that it says the same atrocities.
Aragonès is going to the Senate, as his spokesperson explained, because he does not want to leave the amnesty debate in the hands of the popular and because the president of Catalonia speaks about Catalonia. Before the House audience you can use this other phrase from Gary Cooper in the Fred Zinnemann film: “Many people like to talk about law and order instead of doing something as basic as supporting them, perhaps because deep down they don't "They don't care at all about one thing or another."
