They haven't turned out well. The Catalan institutions do not like each other in the photograph that was taken in the last act of homage to the victims of the terrorist attack on the Rambla. On the political representatives –headed by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès; the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, and the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau – the disgrace has fallen for the lack of respect with which a minority but noisy group of protesters treated those killed and wounded on 17 August 2017.
The Government is silent about what happened and has even turned a deaf ear to what happened that same Wednesday, a little later, before the European Union delegation in Barcelona, where -in the presence of a Laura Borràs moved by the displays of affection of the same ones who had acclaimed her on the Rambla – cries of botifler (traitor) were heard against the president. Once again, Aragonès tries to shield the government coalition of ERC and Junts from the noise. But the fury grows.
“How long can this situation be put up with?” parliamentary sources ask, arguing that Borràs “takes pictures alone”. Even so, they admit that they do not know how to turn the page: "She thinks that she is still the president." She is already suspended as a deputy for a case of alleged corruption and "little more can be done", they consider, to reprove her behavior.
Thus, ERC hopes that Junts will abide by the investiture agreement and put an end to the interim parenthesis in which the Parliament finds itself – the Republican Alba Vergés holds the acting presidency – with the appointment of a successor to Borràs. But the president of Junts clings to the reconsideration requested by her group, which the Table will address at its next meeting, and she affirms that she will continue to attend as if nothing had happened.
In this waiting period, the socialists exhibit the utmost institutional prudence and avoid giving more wind to an issue that, they say, deeply distresses them. That is why Miquel Iceta ironically stated that he had not heard “any noise” on the Rambla. And for this reason, like the common people, they adhere to the answer given by the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, at the end of the act: "Using mourning and memory in a partisan way is the height of shame." Neither one nor the other wants to give more prominence to Borràs.
Ciudadanos does plan to promote an institutional declaration condemning the “ignominious boycott” of the 17-A homage. To carry it forward, he would need to convince one of the majority groups in the House. But leaving Junts aside, neither the PSC nor the ERC, still sunk in stupor and concern about the "disaster" of the Rambla act, seem to want to delve into that wound.
