Bad…: with the small needle of the commons it was enough to puncture the hot air balloon with which Pere Aragonès flew over the extreme parliamentary precariousness. The presidential fantasy was to exhaust the legislature with approved budgets in every fiscal year. But the most difficult thing has been impossible. Pretending you’re riding a 2,500cc motorcycle when you’re sitting on the seat of a moped has risks. Yesterday the engine stalled for good and the trick of the tuned Mobilette driving on the highway was exposed. Lots of chassis and little cubing. Jéssica Albiach’s no to budgets, using the Hard Rock excuse, as he could have also used the tiger mosquito, sends the Catalan legislature to the cemetery. RIP
Aragonès had no choice but to call early elections. It was the most hygienic democratically when you govern with 33 MPs out of 135 and Parliament denies bread and salt to your most important law. Coincidence throughout the parliamentary arch: president, put the ballot boxes! Aragonés, who fell from the balloon, has made the right decision. Perhaps spurred by the political situation of the moment: the amnesty is a fact, Junts has no candidate and Salvador Illa’s socialists, with the Koldo case monopolizing the Spanish agenda, might not be the best time either.
The flapping of the Catalan butterfly has caused a strong easterly wind in Madrid. The State budgets for 2024 are already considered lost, as Pedro Sánchez himself announced yesterday. Although his forms indicate otherwise, he too rides a precarious parliamentary motorcycle. Added to the amnesty and the Koldo case is the inexhaustible buzz of Catalan electoral competition. The president can arm himself with patience. Turbulence until it clears up Catalonia. Although we are in the post-process, some rules are still the same: if the Generalitat has a cold, Spain sneezes. Aaaaay!
…worse: from sectarianism to authoritarianism it only takes one leap. The Ministry of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat has made one and it is now officially an organ of repression of freedom of thought and expression. The libertarian and sectarian spirit has been embodied this time in a fine of 10,000 euros to Sílvia Orriols, mayoress of Ripoll and perhaps candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat for the far-right party Aliança Catalana. The Catalan Joan of Arc: emblem and crucifix, religion and homeland. Nothing that the far-right Orriols has said in a television interview justifies the Generalitat arrogating to itself the authority to act as a parallel administration of justice.
To those who vehemently defend from the media themselves – what a paradox! – we will remind them of only two things. One: they were the ones who spoke out most aggressively against the gag law and demanded its modification, which, by the way, has not yet arrived, to grant full discretion to the Administration to persecute citizens. Attention: you cannot defend freedom of expression on even days and gagging on odd days.
Two: You are right when you argue that not everything is acceptable. It’s just that we already have a Penal Code that we can turn to to push excesses with procedural guarantees and not at the mercy of an administrative instructor on duty complacent with the orders of a politician.
To cover ourselves from the many ultra-right ticket distributors, we should write that Sílvia Orriols is a witch, the worst thing that has ever given birth to a mother in politics. But no. It would be a nuance that would reduce the weight of the previous argument. On the other hand, it must be noted that the Government of Pere Aragonès, with only 33 deputies, has dangerously slipped down the slide of authoritarianism with this decision. Intentions don’t count, only deeds. And these are what they are. This may be reversed with the elections.
