Xavier Trias could have reproduced the phrase “I’m up to the necks of all of us” from the Catalan Estanislao Figueras, president of the First Republic, and it would have been more elegant – and accurate -, but he preferred this dry “let them bomb you!” (luckily, it’s not an irritated Mr. Vox, who would have liked them to “give you for…”).
Let the 324,684 voters of three parties who have agreed, legitimately and democratically, bombard the 223,955 of two confident and arrogant parties? If this is an attack on democracy…
It’s a shame that Mayor Collboni didn’t stand up to the sermons that soured his big day. I understand him, although I do not excuse him: there is no holier indignation in this world than that of a Catalan independenceist. No one dares to stand up. Not to mention that in Girona they have copied this from Barcelona (yes, of course: Together and the CUP share models for health, education, money, housing, taxes).
Madrid decides for Catalonia! As a bit for the parish it is impeccable: simplistic and easy slogan. Madrid has not supplanted 324,684 Barcelona residents, who do not seem to feel betrayed today, unlike the non-independence voters of Trias when they saw the election night show. The very plagues that were hidden throughout the campaign boasted of their successful cunning!
Political parties have, of course, leaders, executives and strategies. Are they based in Madrid? Yes, normal. Others have them in a Waterloo mansion, a symbol of tripijocs and opacity, where the slogan is that we Catalans live eternally with siderals…
A 155? Please! Rather bad to lose, what Ciutadans or the PSC did not show when they were, by far, the most voted lists in single elections to the Generalitat.
By the way, does the walk of the Barcelona corporation to the Generalitat Palace make sense, to the extent of four exalted to insult and harass democratically elected officials? And, as a tip, to receive the booing of President Aragonès, alien this time to the institutional spirit. Ah! And if anyone thinks that by banning the Vox people from a protocol act we are already slowing down their rise…
