Mating ceremonies are similar in all walks of life. You have to show your feathers and pretend strength if you don't have it. Also in politics. The new Government of Pere Aragonès is a consumptive Executive, the weakest that Catalonia has ever had – 33 deputies out of a total of 135 support it – and it can only survive if a new partner guarantees help to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner. As the market is short of applicants, the coupling has to be yes or yes with the PSC. That is why what we are going to continue to see in the coming weeks is a strange courtship, which will combine feigns of verbal violence and threats of extreme disinterest on the part of ERC, but knowing that the ultimate goal can only be to mate. Of course, suffering as little wear as possible along the way. Nature imposes its perpetuation on the animal and Aragonès has no choice but to aspire to Illa's saving kiss for that to be possible. Muacs!
It is true that Aragonès can embrace celibacy by extending budgets instead of approving new ones. But this possibility does not go well with the narrative imposed by himself on the extreme need to validate the accounts in order to face with more guarantees the moments of extreme difficulty that lie ahead for a large part of the population due to the trinomial war-inflation-crisis. energetic.
If Aragonès bets on political bachelorhood and new budgets are not approved, being able to do so with the votes of the PSC, ERC would show that its only interest is partisan and that political cowardice has taken over the Palau de la Generalitat. The legislature would begin the countdown immediately.
The JxCat leadership has already instructed its officers not to take prisoners in their new role as opposition soldiers. Aragonès is aware of this and his insistence appealing to the board members to give away the approval of the budget on the grounds that it has been prepared by the Minister Jaume Giró until now is mere tactics. Hammering that nail, Aragonès aspires to be forgiven for whatever he ends up doing –accepting the votes of the PSC– to carry out the accounts. The story would be explained like this: I didn't want to, but the irresponsibility of the junteros has forced me to do it. In any case, there is no water in this fountain anymore. Junts has decided to start biting Republican ankles. Whichever way you look at it, only Illa's lips can give the saving kiss that the president of the Generalitat needs.
Attentive to the variable time that all mating requires. Perhaps Aragonés and his party, already released from the commitment that the Generalitat's new budgets come into force on January 1, decide to take it. He has excuses to do it. The new Government has introduced changes in organizational charts and powers. So the Minister of Economy, Natàlia Mas, can dizzy the partridge before giving the numbers that Giró prepared as definitive. As the State accounts are ahead and Pedro Sánchez does not want delays in their validation – he also has to pair up with the Republicans yes or yes – ERC would try to take advantage of that advantage in the calendar to tear the Socialists away, via Gabriel Rufián , the reform of the crime of sedition and in the social field the renegotiation of the Housing Law. With those cards in his pocket, particularly the first, Aragonès could accept Salvador Illa's kiss without being disgusted. And Oriol Junqueras would stop insisting, as tutor father of the Government of the Generalitat, on the veto of the socialists because they are not committed to dejudicializing the procés. It is a letter to kings that, like all others, goes into the field of uncertainty. Beyond any cabal, nothing is more fascinating in nature than mating ceremonies. A thousand forms and ways but only one rule: the animal is obliged to solve it successfully in order to perpetuate itself. Also the politician.
