Félix Bauzà taught us Greek at the i nstitute and when we announced to him that we had voted a strike, and there were many, to cancel his class, he solemnly replied: “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” (“I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts”). He was quoting the priest Laocoon when he warned his fellow Trojans of the risk of bringing the Greeks’ horse inside the house.
And I remember it these days when I contrast the media noise of the amnesty with the silence of the majority of Catalans, except the Rondinaires with the Rojigualda. I remind them that amnesty is not only a box or a belt for them, it is also the Spanish Trojan horse that Puigdemont is now introducing into the independent fortress; because, by voting for Sánchez’s presidency, he ratifies who suspended his with 155.
As for the unilateralism it claims to reserve, it will soon be nothing more than a word as forgotten as it is difficult to pronounce.
The investiture pact, which is now considered historic, was discussed yesterday after Princess Eleonor was applauded, because the Constitution she had just sworn in is being deconstructed in the PSOE-Junts de Brussels negotiations, starting with the Senate, that it could become a Bundeschambra and the Spanish autonomies, in Bundeslands, like those of Federal Germany that it wants to imitate and who knows if in Catalonia – set to copy -, in freistaad t, a free state, but associated, as that of Bavaria.
What does it depend on? When explaining the success of the Moncloa pacts, Abril Martorell used to say that to reach a pact the first thing is to identify the hidden lions of each negotiator – those that no one wants to confess in public – and then feed them between all without being noticed. But I fear that the hidden lion of Puigdemont is not fed by improving the Spanish Constitution, but what he really wants is to eat ERC. Will he be content with swallowing historic pacts?
As for Laocoon: not wanting Greek gifts or Spanish horses he ended up being devoured by the snakes sent to him by the gods, who, in the end, always get tired of voting for losers.
