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In these 45 years of the Constitution, Spain has generated two different arithmetics for two different didactics of power that continue in cultural dispute. The first, the “arithmetic of the transition”, which indicates that whoever wins the elections rules by divine pattern, without predominance of the legislature over the executive, and whose purpose is absolute majorities to impose your policies. The second, the “democratic arithmetic”, which explains that it is not necessary to win in order to form a government, since Congress decides, as after 23-J, and which also tells us that it is not necessary to be a member of parliament to be president, as in the censure motion of 2018. All this, in this case yes, in strict compliance with the spirit and letter of the Spanish Constitution.
From these bases, for the “arithmetic of the transition”, everything is “dishonor” and “humiliation”, be it for the amnesty, Pamplona or Junts. This teaching, which is dying of old age, does not realize that it despises the people who vote, because Amnesty, Pamplona or Junts are, in short, the representatives of the voting citizens. The “democratic arithmetic”, for its part, requires understanding, as it had to happen before last week’s plenary session, that in a parliamentary democracy there are many political spaces at stake and the dialogue must be permanent.
One “didactics” has a future, the other no. Therefore, the “democratic didactic” is accepted after what happened in the plenum and the modus operandi for legislative production is changed. No dramas. Because beyond the leaf litter, all the parties are back inside to do politics. And taking care of it requires time, patience and effort together. Trust between one another is not built in two days or two months and that is why the laws must be discussed beforehand, so that Congress instead of a market is a political chamber. And, of course, with Podemos, which is outside the progressive coalition and deserves the same treatment as the other partners. With this, dialog will be neither humiliation nor sainet, but negotiation.
About Junts: Opted for cunning at the last moment. He didn’t vote no on anything, but he didn’t vote yes either. Getting it right in terms of political narrative. However, an agreement on immigration without clarification can be very dangerous and confusing if they do not have a clear joint roadmap with the Spanish Government. Immigration is a very deep issue that without a realistic management of expectations, there is a very high risk that the extreme right will control the situation as in Italy, France or Germany. Out of every 100 expulsion orders in the EU, only 18 are complied with. There is, therefore, a real risk if the Catalan Alliance from Ripoll, today amplified, ends up imposing its point of view, establishing the issues and immigration as the great threat. Attacking the multiculturalism typical of Spanish politics, and characteristic of global Barcelona and the international Catalonia we know. With this, it could suddenly happen that the situation before the Europeans pushed Junts for its messages in a direction contrary to that of a progressive Government. The legislature would enter into a “nonsense”.
Taking control over any matter, and more so an exclusive competence of the State, is materially impossible if all, government and parliamentary partners, do not work hand in hand. Beyond organic law. Today it is immigration, tomorrow it will be another issue. Therefore, Junts does not save, subjugate or forgive anyone. It is “democratic didactics”, they are saved, submit and forgive each other. All votes all the time. All inside.
