For years we have been stirring up the issue of the alleged decline of Barcelona - that if the process, that if the policies of Ada Colau, that if the lack of competitiveness with respect to Madrid - and now we find that we have been completely wrong to focus . Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. It is the decay of a political system that allows, tolerates and assumes without turning red that the legitimate representatives of the citizenry can be spied on as if they were criminals while they are negotiating an agreement to form the local government.
In my opinion, this is a monumental, abrasive, corrosive and shameful decay, to which the most important customary forums, such as the Circle of Economy and Work Promotion, should dedicate several days of study and debate. Nacional, who are always interested in scrutinizing the characteristics of these decadences (sometimes more imaginary than real) that allow us to obsessively compare ourselves with the cheerful Madrid of President Ayuso instead of Milan, Munich or Marseille. It was great that Javier Faus, in the last days of the Circle, let it be known that the Catalan economy reflects "a country with vitality, which is growing, in no case a country in decline". It is almost revolutionary to opine with data.
Gemma Saura and Ignacio Orovio told La Vanguardia last Sunday that the CNI spied on the talks that took place between ERC and Colau's formation to try to form a government in Barcelona after the municipal elections of May 26, 2019. So It seems that the possibility of the Catalan capital having a pro-independence mayor, Ernest Maragall, was something that the staff and financial resources of the secret services deserved to devote to it. I repeat: it seems that a perfectly legal party like ERC could have in its hands the mayor of the second city of Spain deserved an investigation at the same level as those ordered to prosecute terrorists, drug traffickers, international mafias and others. threats.
As we approach the next local elections, the impact of this serious news has been a bit of a pim-pam-pum, but we must not lose sight of it. If everything surrounding espionage against Catalan politicians - through the Pegasus program or other methods - constitutes an obvious degradation of the credibility of democratic institutions, the case related to the Barcelona City Council puts us in front of many silences and responsibilities. Espionage took place - it should be remembered - in parallel with the demonization of Maragall's candidacy, to the point of leading to a kind of health belt, which materialized in the support of Manuel Valls to Colau, operation that it had nothing conspiratorial because it took place in broad daylight and with the applause of those who had borne the provincial adventure of the Frenchman, born paradoxically to block the passage to the mayoress of the commons.
I don't think anyone in Barcelona's economic elites has yet spoken out about the scandal involving the CNI treating elected councilors as if they were members of a jihadist cell. I'm very interested in what our economic and business leaders think about something that would only be normal in states like Russia, Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. We hope that his speedy condemnation of improper espionage to legal parties sounds as clear and firm as it corresponds to his social representation.
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