Disoriented. If you don't know where you are going, all the winds are against you. This is how Catalan politics and society are. That enterprising and liberal Catalonia, so wisely described by Vicens Vives, and before by Cambó or Prat de la Riba; a country that is as proud of its captains of industry and its civil society as it is distrustful of the benefits of the father State, today it is a region without a shared project, entangled in identity and statist daydreams, with no ideological alternative to those who believe that progress is based in crushing taxes on businessmen and professionals, in persecuting the private education, cultural and health sectors and in demonizing public-private collaboration, with outdated and confrontational rhetoric between rich and poor, which is inappropriate for us.
Lack of leadership. I learned from Salvador Alemany that good leadership always has three moments: first, the leader must know what qualified opinions he must obtain before making a decision. Then he has to be fully aware that, faced with the decision, the leader is always alone, he cannot hide behind the argument of this or that co-religionist. Finally, when the decision has been made, the leader must know how to reasonably justify his position and ensure that his own assume it as their own. What a sad role that of Turull before the last parliamentary nonsense of the tardoprocés. Hiding behind the vote of a few thousand militants –less than a fifth of those that Convergència once had, by the way–, who have inevitably voted more with their hearts than with reason, confirms that Junts is a headless duck, that flees shot to the mountain of integrity, and we all know that its north face is irrelevance. Of course, as in the eighties, they will always have the torches and street brawls of the Fossar de les Moreres.
postures. Things by his name. Junts has not left the government. Junts has been kicked out. Or is it that in any decent country the president of a coalition government can cut off the head of his partner and the rest of the comrades stare at Cuenca. For consistency, the dismissal of Puigneró should have meant the immediate departure of the ministers of Junts, who, seen in perspective, surely should never have participated in a Government that is for dialogue, for closing the process and all its rhetoric. Nor is the role of the PSC very lucid, which, despite its gesticulation as an alternative, everyone knows that, once again, and as always, it lives handcuffed to the interests of Moncloa. Because, if not, with which he is falling, shouldn't the winner of the last elections present a motion of censure without delay and gauge his support? Anyway…
Republicans go naked. Grandiloquent verbiage aside, neither Junqueras nor Rufián can convince anyone that the years to come are going to be years in favor of independence. To make matters worse, the cynicism of keeping Pedro Sánchez in power in Madrid and simulating a cordon sanitaire against the PSC in Catalonia is as crude as it is ignoble. Of course, what can we expect from some guys who in their day did not hesitate to throw Puigdemont off the cliff, compatible with walking around all the offices of the Ibex promising moderation while they fanned the fire of the revolution before the candid souls who followed them in social networks?
A wisp of hope. That people of renowned prestige, such as Nadal, Campuzano or Ubasart have accepted Aragonès's invitation to be part of his weakened Executive can only be branded as good patriotism. With his immaculate reputation both in his career in administration and in the private sector, it is clear that his availability honors them and should comfort the rest of us Catalans. There are still good people in this country.
Faced with this scenario, I honestly believe that, even if it weighs him down, the president must submit to a motion of confidence, which guarantees the Catalans the important thing, which is that we are going to have a budget and that the commitment to legal certainty, stability and the fight against inflation and the risk of recession maintain the necessary support in Parliament. Because the rhetoric of 52% and the false DUI have finally been left behind, in the trunk of nightmares. But do we have a new mantra?
