Let’s forget about the minute and result that will plague us for weeks. Let’s save time by getting to the point. The price of the investiture, if there is one, will be paid outright. Sánchez and Puigdemont’s checkbooks will have to face the price of their contradictions and resignations. If someone tries to make a simpa, elections.
There will be an amnesty, we will see which one and in what form, and there will be no referendum. Sánchez’s account includes the right in the street, the traditional PSOE – with the exception of Margarita Robles, who would dance on a pin to continue being a minister – angry, the official PSOE warm but silent and the risk of a legislature with complete certainty confusing and more complicated – and it was difficult – than the previous one.
Puigdemont, for his part, will have to pay the price of refusing the referendum that weighs so heavily in his speech. The bill that he has to pay, beyond the four, six, eight or one hundred thousand that will call him a traitor, will also include the risk of leaving the political space free for the most outrageous independence movement. In this wild political grid of unreason, some Junts militants, famous influencers and other characters live squeezed together who together make up a most diverse border.
Regarding the first, those with a joint card with position and payroll, those who, simplifying, we could call borasistas, will not be a problem. Having long become political professionals, they will have no problem remaining silent and putting themselves behind the new joint strategy. Where I said I say, I say Diego.
Outside the Junts circle, the border includes personalist mini-spaces that, once Puigdemontism has re-entered ambitious autonomism, they may end up offering a new political space to independentist voters. There is the president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu; former councilor Clara Ponsatí, and Juana de Arco de Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols.
With Junts fully returned to the board, something can be born from these confusing spaces that continues working on the science fiction genre with the lure of independence. Counting the Junts votes that may end up on that list is an impossible exercise, so it is enough to note that the amount, whatever it may be, must also be paid by Carles Puigdemont and Junts. Esquerra has already bled what it owed on that side.
These are the bills that the two men who are going to decide if Spain has a government have to half pay. The theory must be accepted that if they have decided to sit at the table it is because both are willing to make the gesture when the painful situation arrives. Sánchez has already made it clear that yes. Puigdemont is still dragging his feet, at least in public discourse.
The Spanish president has already paid for the appetizer – co-official languages ??in Congress, a petition to the EU to make Catalan official in community institutions – and says he is willing to pay for the main course, the amnesty. In the hope that the TC, now in the hands of the left, does not undermine the norm. Perhaps the Madrid native will also pay for some of the drinks with a transfer and the promise of more money. But the dessert, filling, extras, coffees and cigars will go to Junts’ account, just as in 2020 they went to ERC’s. Referendum? Self-determination? No. Nee in flamenco.
In ERC they are uneasy about the possibility that Junts’ inconsistencies will be cheaper for Carles Puigdemont’s team than for them. They are scared that Puigdemont’s armored chassis absorbs all the impacts without barely a scratch. Panic is not justified. The same people, from all fronts, who helped ERC return to the playing field are now doing the same with Junts. Without any difference. Furthermore, governing the Generalitat thanks to the help of the PSC is no small feat. It just takes you out of the negotiating equation of the present. Every service comes with an invoice. And in Catalonia, for once with the silly topic, we already know that we like to pay each of us our own.
