Lewis Carroll puts the following advice into the mouth of Alice’s Cheshire cat: if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will lead you there. But this is a demonic sentence because it is only true if you have clear goals and objectives beforehand. So ERC does well to give itself time to reflect on the route to follow, on where they want to go and in whose hands they put the GPS.
The only problem is that the party can wait, but reality hastens. Republicans have given themselves half a year to overcome the crisis, which is enough time for any remedy to take effect. But reality is knocking on the door and the Republican Party has the key to get the institutions going, and they can’t wait. The socialists remind them not only that they are leftists like them, but also that they have been their crutch to govern for the last year. The post-convergents warn them that they share their independence and that they cannot refuse to restore the president dismissed by 155 in 2017.
Ortega maintained that we are not determined by circumstances, on the contrary, these are the dilemma we must face, knowing that in the end it is our character that decides. If we listen to the philosopher, although what the republicans would like is to be able to inhibit themselves at this moment, it is clear that the body – the character – asks them to leave Junts. Not only because they aspire to devour ERC like the whale in Jonàs, but because relations between the two formations have been drifting apart since the failed declaration of independence. Oriol Junqueras and Carles Puigdemont cannot stand each other, but the departure of the Joint Government at the behest of the ex-president and without objective reasons was a blunder that has left deep wounds.
The worst scenario for ERC would be a repeat of the elections, because without direction and direction they could fall even further. Joan Tardà, the party’s representative in Congress, was the first to speak out in favor of not blocking Illa’s investiture and making a collaborative opposition. Tardà’s words sounded like Alíci’s cat, who seemed to get her into all the messes, but who was actually the one who got her out of them.
