In La 2, Daniel Sirera, councilor of the PP, says that he likes Mayor Jaume Collboni, but that he is "dragging his feet". It's an affectionate way of, I interpret, calling him lazy. He also qualifies as an occurrence the idea of establishing the figure of the "night mayor". I imagine the mayor at night confronting the seventy (!) vandals who attacked the trains on lines 4 and 2 of the metro. In Barcelona, vandalism is a tradition that contrasts with the nocturnal offer which, in legal terms, suffers from regulations that are impossible to apply.
Away from the insecurity, Ada Colau appears in the Here Catalunya (Ser) and demands that the left-wing agreement with Mayor Collboni (the one who “arrossega els peus”) be finalized. What if, in the case of a politician, laziness was more desirable than incompetence? A Corsican proverb says it: “Excessive zeal has killed more people than laziness.” “Were they wrong with the promise of term limits?” asks Pablo Tallón. Colau responds that it was a good idea to break the vocational monoculture. Then, and manipulating his same mutant scruples, he remembers that there is a fine print that relativizes the promise (so, I interpret, he can break it).
Els matins de Catalunya Ràdio interviews President Pere Aragonès, confirmed as ERC candidate for the next elections. Regarding the expansion of the airport, the president is ambiguous and makes a display of euphemisms and a prodigious mastery of obviousness and non-specificity. It's one of his skills: a dispersive loquacity that sounds convincing without ever losing its structural monotony. Perhaps because the alternative was the epic and emotional grandiloquence of Oriol Junqueras, ERC has preferred a presidential tone in which saying nothing (or not much) is not as penalizing as promising, loudly, gold and silver.
If Junqueras defends his ideology with an erudition that can intimidate, Aragonés cultivates a technocratic discourse in which it is very difficult to distinguish the grain (boring) of truth from the chaff (boring) of propaganda. But be careful: the tone of public representatives is increasingly important. Through the tremendous route, verbal extremism connects with populist desperation. And in a more civilized dimension, respect can use gentle and non-conflictive formulas. A few days ago, Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Gaza, declared: “It is very likely that genocide is being committed in Gaza.” If we applied the Albanese tone, there would be less tension. If in a traffic dispute (or between political parties) we are about to kill each other, we can say, without raising our voice, “It is very likely that you are a son of a bitch,” which sounds much more civilized than the usual formula. .
