On the day after the Diada demonstration organized by the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) that brought together some 115,000 people in the Plaza de España in Barcelona, ??the main protagonists of the morning airwaves broadcast from Madrid have criticized what happened yesterday in Barcelona with different nuances, tones and styles.
At COPE, Carlos Herrera highlighted that “yesterday, at this decisive moment of the amnesty, the paradoxical circumstance occurred that the less significant the act itself has, the more power the Catalan independence movement has.” For Herrera, yesterday it became clear that the people who were there “have turned the page on the amnesty, they already take it for granted and what they are doing is self-determination.”
With epithets and metaphors bordering on insult, the program host has referred to those present and those who took the stand. “Everyone beating their chests like gorillas to see who is more independent,” the communicator highlighted, adding: “I already know who was insulted the most by all the titellas who went there and the anarcopijos who sign up for all this.” kind of those kind of pilgrimages.”
Without making it explicit, Herrera has not hesitated to seek a parallel with Nazism when referring to the torchlight marches of the previous night, “an image that throughout Europe shakes anyone, people with torches at night walking through the streets to go to performing certain rites in front of certain supposedly historical places is something that makes your hair stand on end.
And referring to the amnesty, the presenter has sarcastically suggested that this could include “even the Pujols”, whose case for alleged corruption is pending trial in the National Court.
Finally, the communicator ironically asked himself why if the amnesty “was so good and convenient, they didn’t think about it before?” “Why didn’t it occur to Sánchez before, even before 23J?” he insisted. Because before 23rd -J Puigdemont’s votes were not necessary, he answered himself.
In Onda Cero, Carlos Alsina has paid more attention to the small details of minor protagonists to conclude that yesterday’s march is not even a “shadow of what the independence marches were” in recent years. Specifically, he has pointed to, “among other entertainers”, the president of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, Mònica Roca, who referred to Plaza España as Plaza Uno de Octubre. “In the parallel world of the independence movement, the squares are called whatever they want and the people are represented by something called the Council of the Republic.”
And precisely this entity is part of Lluis Llach who, according to Alsina, “abandoned the nova cançó to sing the same song every year now.” The presenter has highlighted the strength of the former singer-songwriter, who defended the confrontation with the State. “So hopeless yesterday that at times it seemed like he was going to give him a kick up there,” Alsina warned.
The Onda Cero journalist saw in Roca’s speech, who denounced the fiscal deficit suffered by Catalonia, a “renewed version of Spain steals from us: Spain impoverishes us.” “Thank goodness Puigdemont comes to put things in his place,” Alsina concluded ironically.
Finally, the presenter has pointed out what inconsistency it would mean for the pro-independence supporters to invest Sánchez in exchange for independence. “Man, not this. You invest Sánchez and then you take Catalonia out of Spain. And you leave the Spanish with a president of the government who without the votes of the independence movement would not have been president”
Àngels Barceló, for his part, has considered that the Diada “has ceased to be an expression of Catalan sentiment” and has become “a mobilization where anyone who does not think like the one who calls it is no longer welcome”, but he celebrated that those who opt for Dialogue and negotiation to overcome the conflict in Catalonia “yesterday overcame an obstacle as it was the least attended mobilization, excluding those caused by the pandemic.
Despite everything, Barceló has stressed that although the mobilization loses steam, there are many who continue to attend the demonstration, who “no longer only demand independence, but whose main task is to attack the pro-independence parties that sit alongside talk to the central government, which is now both, Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya”. The presenter understands that this framework established by the march is the one that “also conditions political speeches, forced to increase decibels so as not to be considered soft or traitors.” “Although before and after, they sit down to negotiate with the Government,” she clarified.
And he concludes: “Both Esquerra and Junts are talking to Moncloa, and these conversations should remain outside of emotional exaltation. And most importantly, they should be realistic conversations. Not even one can ask for the moon, because they know perfectly well that it is unattainable. Nor should others promise the impossible or what they cannot explain well.
