Carles Puigdemont wants to be the last to close the bar, so that it can be seen that he is the one who orders and commands the bar. The only problem with being the one to lower the shutter is that you run the risk of getting your fingers caught in the operation. The tenant of Waterloo wants the spotlight on his person and to leave ERC out of focus. The expatriate president has decided to delay the approval of the agreement for the investiture, so as not to coincide with the day on which the republicans closed the pact with the PSOE. But this means delaying the presentation of the draft amnesty law to Congress, which the Spanish Government in office did not like, as it hoped to be able to hold the plenum to invest Pedro Sánchez on the 8th or 9th. Puigdemont is taking the negotiation to the limit, but being formidable has its costs, despite the fact that the Amer politician currently has all the trump cards in his hand.
Contrary to what the Central Government thought, JxCat has led the game to extra time, knowing that everyone is exhausted and, even, quite fed up. Beyond the pleasure of getting the front pages with the last photo, Puigdemont is also trying to expand the scope of the amnesty to characters who would not be in the strict dynamics of the process and this can be a serious problem. Or look like a provocation.
Independence has repeated so much that of "the general cause", that there are those who think that everyone can get on this bandwagon. And this, rather than a requirement, can turn out to be a joke in bad taste. You know that Tarradellas warned many years ago that you can do everything in this life except the ridiculous, which some can no longer afford because they have passed the quota.
In any case, ERC's negotiation with the Spanish Government has been positive for all Catalans, not just for pro-independence: the transfer of Rodalies or the cancellation of 15,000 million of the Generalitat's debt which will save 1,300 million in interests means a reinforcement of self-government. So Republicans should not be nervous. They will have time to be, because this independenceist unity has become an oxymoron. Like that of military music: it's music or it's military.
