L'Onze de Setembre is a Catalan party from which independence has been appropriated, where an excess of gesticulation and an exuberance of the scenery is often perceived. What is happening is that this year, in which the central debate should be about amnesty, which is a delicate matter and with which it is essential to proceed with exquisite measure and extreme skill, the affirmations that make negotiations that formally they haven't started This is not the time when Catalan politics should look like the cabin of the Marx brothers, where everyone knocks on the door asking, in addition, for two hard-boiled eggs.
As it is also not time to rush. Impatience is one of the chronic ills of pro-independence politicians. "Haste is the passion of fools," wrote Baltasar Gracián, who was the light version of Machiavelli. Jaume Asens, the person who was tasked with exploring with Carles Puigdemont the possibilities of an investiture pact, has reminded TVE that it will be difficult to approve an express amnesty and that forcing the machine would not be a good solution. In the same vein, Iván Redondo wrote yesterday, saying that it cannot appear that this is an amnesty for investiture, but an amnesty for reunion. In fact, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo recognized a few days ago the existence of a political problem with Catalonia and bet on finding a constitutional fit, he was trying to strengthen democracy, looking for agreed solutions. It's a shame that, after a minute, the hard-liners of the PP jumped on top of him.
No one should be nervous about the Diada parliaments, which are for internal consumption by parties and organizations. But it would be necessary to demand seriousness from them, starting today. Asens has also said on television that "politics is the art of the possible and time management". The competition between Junts and ERC to see who embodies black-legged independence - and that of the ANC with respect to Omnium - cannot be added obstacles to a negotiation for amnesty, which is the greatest exercise of magnanimity, as Redondo has also reminded us, and before which there is no posturing, but maximum responsibility.
