Emmanuel Macron declared shortly before winning his first elections that it was a mistake to consider that the program is the heart of a campaign: “Politics is mystic, style, magic.” It is not the best of reflections to consider that the program is relatively important. But even more surprising was hearing him say that politics was magic. I see Mago Pop and it doesn’t seem to me that he’s doing politics. I look at the serious problems France has and it only occurs to me that Macron must have lost his wand.
In any case, there are moments in politics that amaze like the best of illusionism numbers. Like when at the PP headquarters in Genoa they went from shouting “Pujol dwarf, speak Spanish” to “Pujol handsome, speak what you want”. Or this month of August when once again the popular ones have stopped describing Carles Puigdemont as “the fugitive” to highlight him as a legitimate actor in Spanish politics. Both in 1996 and now, the PP needs the votes of the universe that Junts represents as before it required those of the CiU. Then it was easier, because the demands of the nationalists were more acceptable.
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has said in the heat of heat that the red line to negotiate was Bildu. The deputy secretary general, Esteban González Pons, opened the possibility of negotiating with Junts and ERC, since “beyond the actions that four people carried out, they represent parties whose legality is not in doubt.” It has even been leaked that a Catalan PP leader called Puigdemont to explore whether there was a margin.
Yesterday it was Vice President Yolanda Díaz who had a meeting with Puigdemont in the Eurochamber, which made the negotiation official. Gamarra hastened to write on the X network that the left stop kidding the Spanish and say what they are willing to do to continue in power.
The Government, which two months ago insisted that Puigdemont should turn himself in to the authorities, met with him a few hours ago. And the amnesty, which was impossible, begins to be probable. The same is true that politics is magic and the former president returns teleported by Antonio Díaz on his return from Broadway.
