Gary Cooper in Sun before the danger says one of those resounding phrases that say everything without saying anything, very typical of westerns: “A man has to do what he has to do”. That is to say that, having to lose, he faces his rivals, who are more and more implacable, knowing that their skin is at stake. Pere Aragonès, in an act of audacity that must be recognized, has decided to present himself today to a Senate with an absolute majority of the PP during a session in which the Spanish Government and the PSOE have decided to plant the popular barons. These have forced a session to address a matter like amnesty, without even knowing the draft of the law, in the hypothesis that it is finally presented. It is about using the Senate as a mouthpiece in order to try to collapse the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, which has not yet ended in Waterloo.

The president of the Generalitat will have just ten minutes to defend his position in favor of the clemency measure. He will be the only one who will argue in this regard in the debate with the eleven regional presidents of the PP.

It is clear that the confrontation will be unequal, but it is necessary to appreciate his courage in entering the political arena to defend his position regarding the amnesty. Surely, ERC needs epic and in the negotiation between JxCat and the Central Government it goes with the changed step. However, the Catalan president has decided not to listen to his adversaries, although he could stay to listen to one of them, sparing the other ten, who will repeat the same litany. Using the Senate as a sounding board for a less pluralistic Spain is a contradiction in terms. Mario Benedetti warned: the worst thing about the echo is that it says the same barbarities.

Aragonès is going to the Senate, as his spokeswoman explained, because he does not want to leave the amnesty debate in the hands of the people and because the president of Catalonia is talking about Catalonia. In front of the House hearing, he can use this other line from Gary Cooper in the Fred Zinnemann film: support, perhaps because deep down they don’t care at all about one thing or the other”.