On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy, the youngest president in United States history, said in his inauguration address on the steps of the Capitol: “The torch has been passed to a new generation.” Sixty nailed years later, Joe Biden, the oldest president, was sworn in on the spot, after seeing the torch of liberty in his country endangered, and admitted: “Democracy is fragile.”
But not only the Donald Trumps of the world endanger the fragile democracy. So do those who claim to be their antagonists, but exaggeratedly frustrate expectations that previously, to boost themselves electorally, they have inflated disproportionately. From governments, trust in politics is also eroded. For example, when what is promised in the campaign (or outside of it) is not fulfilled, no matter how lazy the magnifying glass of the media is when it comes to looking at it.
Pere Aragonès, the youngest president of the Generalitat, spoke at his inauguration of “the new republican Generalitat”. He did so in a context in which he was running for the presidency with the support of Junts and the CUP, which added to the ERC votes constituted what all of them, including Republicans, dubbed “the 52% majority.” Long before the trust between the pro-independence partners began to break publicly, ERC gradually stopped using this concept.
And finally the pact came that all those involved (except the common ones) had denied that it was going to take place, but it was obvious that it had been cooking for a long time. ERC, the PSC and the commons reached an agreement on the budgets, a clear prelude to a tripartite entente that, if they can add up, will go much further in the next electoral cycles.
These days of pre-campaign for the municipal ones, each other, the budget partners, give rallies throwing the agreements for the accounts to the head. And this, in a country where fireworks between project partners are a tradition, continues to become another interesting indicator of the scope of the pact between “the left”. They fight? Therefore, they ride together. Where and at what costs? Most of the media still do not have the magnifying glass there.
It is in this sense that Junts, this week in which the Government accounts will see the green light in Parliament on Friday, will have to try to focus on the contradictions between the budget partners, as well as their shortcomings. The latter is the typical task of an opposition party, and it is democratically healthy for it to occur.
But, in addition, it is necessary for the juntaires to fix the magnifying glass on the contradictions of what one and other budget partners say that these accounts imply. Because Junts is usually news in the media due to the internal contradictions (real, invented or halfway) that many want to see, especially to rage there while ignoring or minimizing those of those who are in the Government and, therefore, when they fail, greater capacity they have to erode the fragile democracy.
