Jaume Giró, Victòria Alsina and many others are much more like Duran i Lleida and Sánchez Llibre than Puigdemont, Borràs or Torra. Surely they will not admit it for fear, for example, of the mob that gathered at the Arc de Triomf. But believe me: those with seny in their DNA rarely end up drifting back to pragmatism. Ten years have taken many grassroots convergents to reach this conclusion. Better late than never.
Within the CDC, the PDECat, Junts or the Crida, these moderate representatives, with a peix al cove tendency, have only really been joined by one backbone to the processist rhetoric: power, the Government. His disruptive speeches in public have contrasted with the recurrent shrugs of the shoulder in private: the paradigm of the great swindle of the procés. Can you imagine Giró, Alsina and many others participating in a National Council of a Junts stripped of power and even more populist on a Saturday morning in Falset? Neither do I. If they now participate in it, it is simply because they exercise power on behalf of this political brand.
The two souls that lived together in CiU have mutated, but they are still alive. The eternal debates between the moderates and the abraonats are not new, but rather go back a long way. A hint for analysts: the radicals always win. That is why neither Convergència nor Unió exist anymore and in all their heir acronyms they have always fared much better electorally and organically than those of the hard wing. Catalonia is no longer a country for moderates. We were and we were doing much better, but this evidence only sounds like nostalgia for a time that will not return.
Power or story. This enormous dilemma is what the Junts militants must resolve, in a hurry, this week. The option of remaining in the Government would leave the spirit of its most activist faithful very touched, but it guarantees them to continue being in charge. The option of leaving the Consell Executiu would be sold as a great exercise in well-worn dignity, it would allow them to keep up their fictional maximalism, but, and here is the key, it would start a journey through the desert that JxCat could take very evil without having its greatest vital organ: power.
All the Catalan parties, except the converging world, know how to do politics outside of Palau. They do not. And they do not know how to do it, among other things, because it is their natural state and their best remedy in the face of the diversity of positions that coexist today in Junts as they did yesterday in Pujolism. Thus, the risk of splits and trencadissa is evident. With the exception of the brief period of the leftist tripartites, and some good winter cartels with power overflowing in other levels of the Administration, this political space has never left what they consider "their home".
For all of the above, at the imminent crossroads of Junts there is a moment of notable relevance for Catalan politics. The radicals may win again. It is likely, in fact. And if so, it only remains to remember the motto, so intrinsically Catalan: from defeat to defeat until the final victory.
