For once, and without serving as a precedent, let us throw ourselves into the arms of satisfaction. Let us savor the fruits of forced generosity, the only one that politics is capable of understanding. What a discovery! As if it were not a known thing that hunger sharpens the ingenuity, also that of Pedro Sánchez. But to be honest, does anyone think that a child is worse because he was born with the help of forceps?
Let us pity the abascals who left the chamber. Let's comfort them by reminding them that it only hurts the first few times. Let us empathize with those who are filled with Feijooist Galicianism –forgive the cliché– and do not yet know whether to go up, down or push Borja Sémper, the popular spokesperson who suffers by going against himself, down the stairs.
Let us also remind those who broke the game board in 2017 that it is not necessary to be in Waterloo or in jail to demand through votes things that seem impossible, as long as one counts patience among their virtues and knows how to wait for the windows of opportunity.
And let us put aside those who, from the sovereignty of I, me, me, with me, are suspicious of a multilingual hemicycle because it is more putty than a solvent of unity. These see the fantasy of everything exploding to build republics on ashes as far away.
Let us celebrate politics when it gives reasons for it with the same enthusiasm with which we vilify it when it deserves it. Something that will undoubtedly happen, at full stretch, tomorrow, the day after or perhaps today.
Also in his day in Parliament, it was difficult for many to accept that speeches in Spanish began to be heard from the lectern. Only those who did it had the advantage of not hitting the wall of a regulation that prevented them from doing so. Nor, it is true, were the earpieces necessary. But the arguments against were the same as now, just from different mouths. Those who are subscribed to the nightmare of balkanization were neither right then nor right now. A Congress must aspire to be the most accurate image of what it represents. And the photo of the Carrera de San Jerónimo palace looks more like Spain today than the day before yesterday.
Major festival of linguistic reality also in Europe, with Catalan overcoming the first obstacle to become an official language in the community institutions. The risk of being cut off with the first step was certain. Hence the news that the states are going to study the proposal is the best possible. Any other would have been worse.
Whether the demand can materialize will largely depend on Spain's persistence in maintaining this demand as a priority on its European agenda and its willingness to use it as a marketing element in the countless issues that are negotiated in the EU.
Ah yes, something about the investiture. It is enough to write that all bets dance to the tune of emotions, desires, hunches and interests more than information. So two lines are enough.
