Sumar-En Comú podem saved the furniture. The formation reaped seven seats. He obtained around 490,000 votes, some 58,000 less than in the previous general calls, but he rose to second position among the Catalan political forces.
The number one on the list for Barcelona was the last among the candidates to assess the results, and she was exultant. Her reading was completely local. “The vast majority of Catalans have voted for a government of progress to continue advancing.” And immediately afterwards Vidal launched the first hint to those of Junts. “Among all of us we have to prevent the formation of a government that will devastate us. All parties have to work on it. Because we have turned all this around… we have sent Abascal to his house! him and his machismo and his racism.”
The truth is that at the moment the Catalan branch of the confluences of the left are more or less divided between those who are still breathing with relief before the final scrutiny and those who understand that they missed a unique opportunity to expand their space. In this way, some consider that they knew how to face a tremendously complicated scenario and break the logic and tyrannies of bipartisanship and the useful vote, that in truth, as things were getting, they could come up with a song in their teeth…
And others, on the other hand, in these same ranks, think that if despite very insistently warning all these days that fascism and some even worse things are practically just around the corner and that a lot of human rights are in serious danger, citizens do not mobilize to their side and vote for them really hard, then perhaps the formation and its message are actually rather disconnected from a part of this very broad, too broad society.
But both one and the other imply these views in a very discreet, sometimes even cryptic way. Maximum caution, maximum caution. And never have the Post Office workers received so many congratulations as during this day. Maybe the night of the Three Kings. The certain thing is that the electoral night lived in the headquarters of BComú in the Marina street of Barcelona seemed somewhat surreal. Late in the afternoon, Vidal herself, Gerardo Pisarello, Ada Colau, Jessica Albiach, David Cid, Gala Pin… in the company of some friends and family members, and more or less spread out through the offices on the mezzanine, while in the small bar facing the street, where the party had a lot of sandwiches, a few proxies gathered. At no time was a grand celebration in sight.
Meanwhile, the journalists speculated on the true meaning of the shouts of joy that from time to time resounded in the building as the count progressed. Did they celebrate that at times the PSOE was enduring the pull of the right with more resistance than expected according to the latest polls? no, in reality the Catalan branch of the confluences of the left was pleased that it remained as it was, and that despite this they climbed to the second place of the Catalan political forces, only with the PSC ahead. Others fared much worse.
