I woke up with a slight cold and took an effervescent aspirin, which dissolved in water in less than a minute. I had breakfast with the newspaper and read that the PP proposed dissolving the parties that call illegal referendums. And I couldn’t help but wonder who was the genie in the lamp that had had this idea. At least, Mariano Rajoy knew that the independence movement was a thorn in his side, that he hoped to be able to resist thanks to his callousness. But now it turns out that Miguel Tellado, spokesperson for the PP in Congress, comes out and, with the face of a royal postman, announces the good news: they will amend the Government’s amnesty law in its entirety (as registered in the afternoon) and will simultaneously promote changes in the Penal Code to dissolve pro-independence parties and entities that promote illegal referendums. More or less like aspirin. Easy, right? Once the dog is dead, the rabies is over, says the Spanish proverb.
Since the PP does not have a parliamentary majority, its amendment will delay the amnesty law, but those changes will not come into force. But they don’t seem like a good idea. Rather, they are nonsense. Does anyone with half a brain really believe that the Catalan issue is resolved with the expulsion from the democratic framework of JxCat, ERC, the CUP, and even the National Assembly and Òmnium Cultural? Which think tank has advised you? The question is not trivial, because the proposal goes against what the conservative formation itself has maintained in recent decades and moves away from the very spirit of the Constitution, which enshrines political pluralism by describing Spain as a non-militant democracy.
I already know that part of politics is pure theater. In this case of absurdity, surely to pay tribute to Franz Kafka in the year of the centenary of his death, who did not believe too much in human beings to think that “all knowledge, all questions and answers are found in the dog.” .
In the last few hours, we have learned more about the rapprochement between the PP and JxCat after the election result. It seems a little ridiculous that they sought support from the post-convergents and now want to liquidate them with a stroke of a pen. Kafkaesque, without a doubt.
