Antonio Muñoz Molina may have been right when he wrote that the big problem in this country is that, in recent years, the mediocre who have invaded the parties have ended up occupying the highest positions without possessing any merit, without knowing anything , nor wanting to learn something. The country woke up yesterday upset by politicians’ decisions that will complicate our lives, when everything was aligned to improve them. I can’t stop thinking how the alleged moral superiority shown by En Comú Podemos to reject a casino, which will surely never be built, in Tarragona served as an excuse to leave the Government in a minority. The issue is not how they explain it, but that the citizens have not understood that, with their obstinacy, they have boosted the budgets of the Generalitat and, out of sympathy, those of the Government of Spain. The expansive wave has also reached Barcelona, ??as the agreement between PSC and ERC has been paralyzed in the face of electoral dynamics. The butterfly effect, according to which insignificant actions can trigger great disasters, is served.
I have no doubt that the rift created by En Comú Podemos’ stubbornness will take its toll on them, but that is their problem. But the fact that there are no budgets means that there will be no planned investments in Catalonia to alleviate the drought, to invest in education, health and housing, just as there will be no tax reduction for the lowest incomes. And the forgiveness of 60,000 million regional debt, agreed upon at the investiture, 15,000 of which correspond to the Generalitat, remains up in the air. This situation will hardly be able to be corrected next year, given the new fiscal discipline required by the European Union.
The feeling that the parties get their way and the citizens don’t matter is the worst of the messages that politics can offer, and one that populists will no doubt take advantage of. The desolate appearance of Yolanda Díaz, as if she were a Lorquian character, last Thursday in Congress was proof of how close the tragedy is. Not only for Sumar, which is increasingly lacking, but for a country that has been the victim of the conspiracy of the mediocre.