The Catalan elections of 12-M are potentially decisive. They can leave behind a stage of social polarization and institutional paralysis. That is why I want to take a public position in favor of a project and a person that can lead us down the path of reunion between Catalans, laying the foundations for a Catalonia that takes care of its people and projects itself in the world as a beacon of innovation and civility. , a reference in the stormy waters we have entered.
A leftist project. Not by ideology but by experience. Nations are not above the needs of citizens. They are primarily there to serve you in your daily life. The idea of ??dying for one’s country is over, which, according to history, results in many dying so that others can rise to power and make their own, no matter how many ethnic surnames they accumulate.
Talk to me about health, education, culture, housing, territory, ecology, animal rights, retirement, employment, salaries, security, equality between women and men, respect for any gender identity that each one decides, of Catalan, Spanish and foreign citizens, living together in a multicultural society like ours. And fighting for all of this to obtain the necessary resources, with or against whoever, the Spanish Government, the European Commission, large companies, all those who disproportionately appropriate the product of our work.
Maximum level of self-government to achieve and strengthen all of this. And to contribute to defending peace at a time when the drums of war are resounding again in Europe. Without wrapping ourselves in exclusive flags, respecting them all if they deserve it. Without looking back at our history of blood and without telling fables to young people, preventing them from exhausting themselves in the search for a magic formula that has little to do with what they want and dream of. No flag saves from the impulse to suicide. Rather, it ends in collective suicide.
That is the project I vote for. But a project is empty words without people to defend and implement it. Capable, honest and credible people. I do not vote for politicians but for people who are politicians and whom I trust, with the data in hand. And that is why I vote for Illa, because I have been with him in the trenches of the fight against covid and I was able to observe his dedication, his honesty and his decisions always based on analysis and recommendations from scientists.
We also spent many hours talking about Catalonia and the world. He is a man of peace, he is a calm and tolerant man, who faces insults undaunted and arouses serenity with the mere presence of him, there is a reason he is a philosopher. And then he acts.
I don’t want to ignore how I came to this decision. As is public, I had the honor of being proposed, in my capacity as an independent, as Minister of Universities by Mayor Ada Colau, whom I supported in three campaigns, including the last one. She has been the best mayor since my friend Pasqual.
But these elections are about something else. They are going to build a coalition between socialists, commoners and left-wing republicans. This is the political basis of the Catalonia of the future. And the political reality indicates that Salvador Illa is the only one who can articulate it. By vows and by temperance. Little to do with the previous tripartite. Because this option would actually be the political version of the historic bloc that will transform Catalonia.
