Bad times for the beardless Valencian Tango Academy, as we begin this week somewhat astonished at the scenery of the ultra Eurovision that the voxeros have summoned us beyond the M-40, a radical international that has had everything… even a comic sketch converted into trompe l’oeil of stellar diplomatic conflict. I hope I don’t end up in the Malvinas, since we don’t have Thatcher to help us here. And we will end it calm and even bored with the start of the European motivational electoral campaign. From the barricades to the polls, come and see.
Coming from the Catalans who have left us in a dead end, what if they add up, what if they don’t, what if Puigdemont castles, what if Junqueras is recast… and all in the face of a clear and concise, timid and gentle winner, Salvador Illa is a Wonderful. Catalan social democracy prevails over unbridled sovereignty in the face of the fatigue of a Catalan society that perceives itself as disoriented and perplexed. Courage and work to my appreciated Ramón Espadaler, watchword of the best autonomist humanism, surely called to great challenges in this Catalonia of the future.
As my boss Salva Enguix recalled in these same pages, there was a time when Mediterranean socialism, with the regional presidents Ximo Puig and Francina Armengol, proposed recovering the third federalist way to respond to the entrenched territorial gap in this Spain of ours. The commitment to that plural Spain, of its nationalities and its peripheries, of diverse identities and broad cultures. Story and desire that the next President of the northern Generalitat Salvador Illa shares and distributes. The Girondin Spains, you already know.
I would also like to sing that I am in a good moment and that moderantism has regained value with the victory of the PSC against the reactionary impulses on both sides. Many fronts open to options that seek to prioritize their self-government without giving up being part of a common space. One who pretends to be a nationalist and demands that of “Libertat i Estatut d’Autonomia” (I leave the amnesty to others) does not agree with outrageous secessions, but he does agree very much with the federal recipe for this bullskin. And long live Portugal!
Well, for all this, or almost, I appropriate the title of the latest great work of the inspiring Enric Juliana and we will give the particular starting signal of the epic European electoral campaign within a week and in these Valentine’s latitudes, with candidates from the coalition CEUS promoted by the exemplary EAJ-PNV. Summoned by the brave Valencian Democrats, the former president of the PDeCat David Bonvehí or the Balearic Jordi Prunés of Proposta per les Illes will step on the carpet. All very much in the vein of the Valencian Country, listen. The petty regional underfinancing and the effective demand for the Mediterranean Corridor will be discussed. For people and territories, for progress and self-government, wow. In the face of so much fury, a portion of pactism.
