Carles Puigdemont is a master of suspense. An Alfred Hitchcock from Amer, who tries to take situations to the limit, even if sometimes the endings are not the expected ones. No longer for the public, but for Puigdemont himself. I read in La Vanguardia that making decisions at the last moment is part of Junts' DNA. But I would dare to say that it is not so much the soul of the party, but the spirit of its leader.
It is possible that this allows him to have more control over his training, being away from headquarters. Puigdemont does not give any clues about who will be the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, but this way of proceeding is not new: it could be seen in matters related to the process, in his judicial strategy and in the direction of the party. And now he is doing the same with the central government, which he has announced will not vote for the omnibus decree, which foresees a package of anti-crisis measures and the investment of 10,000 million European funds. Puigdemont considers that Catalan competences are being invaded and that it includes a rule that could complicate the amnesty. But time is running out: the decree is being debated in Congress on Wednesday.
Politics is increasingly the control of the times. And handling the intrigue is essential. A study of emotions by the Mind and Brain Institute of Canada showed that Hichtcock was able to alter the perception of time. For the field work, they had a group of people watch a short film of theirs entitled Bang, you're dead! , where a boy dressed as a cowboy replaces his toy gun with that of his father who has just arrived from Africa. The vailet starts targeting various characters on the street without pulling the trigger, until he returns home to play with the woman who takes care of him. The viewer experiences sadness at the tragedy.
The strategy of the last moment produces anxiety, anguish and despair, as Antonio Machín sang in Toda una vida. Waiting for the last moment, how many people have lost a flight, a job, a love or simply an opportunity. In fact, Puigdemont tried on the 27th to call elections at the last moment, until he discovered that he had run out of time. Like the boy in the Hitchcock short.
