Carles Puigdemont flatly refuses to close the file on the process. This episode has become unbearably long for us Catalans. The ex-president will be able to say, rightly, that he more, but the citizens are tired of listening to excessively emotional speeches, which place us on the verge of glory and which want to be dyed epic. Three sentences spoken to Elna illustrate these statements: "This time we will do better", "today the countdown begins", "the work started in 2017 must be finished".
Puigdemont boasted of the amnesty that the Central Government has ended up accepting, although he previously considered it unconstitutional, and predicted "a referendum on self-determination this legislature" if it is invested, since the argument of the Spanish Executive is same And putting his chest out, he identified himself without citing it with Theseus, able to overcome the fortress of the Minotaur: "We have dragged the State to the position we were defending".
No one can deny that Thursday's speech was powerful and well structured. He has been thinking about it for six and a half years and at times he thought he would never form it. But history plays with its own dice and chance offers opportunities. What is essential is knowing which bets to make and which not to, when the wind is blowing in your face.
At times, his words sounded a bit vintage, but you have to understand that time moves at a different speed when you are an expatriate. It often runs as smoothly as a Dalinian clock. Catalan society is plural enough for the recipe to be another cup of process. We are not at the same point as when he fled in a car bound for Brussels. Catalonia has rebuilt itself and there are many people who had a dream that today touch the ground and want a better country but without adventures that lead them to the abyss. The same EU that Puigdemont praised for the progress in the recognition of Catalan has two wars on the horizon and does not want more sovereignty tensions.
The former president dreamed as a child that he would be an astronaut, coinciding with the arrival of Apollo 11 on the satellite. But today it is not advisable to ask for the moon, it is better to be a pragmatist on Earth.
