A week after writing that the process had disappeared from the Catalan electoral campaign, Junts and ERC have forgotten it. Without views, targeting where it hurts the most, looking to cause casualties (at the polls). We thought that when we woke up the dinosaur would no longer be there, but the truth is that, simply, everyone had hidden it under the mat. What happened to cause this change of plans? Well, at ERC they realized that either they were heating up the campaign more or they would not achieve the desired objectives. Like the Ferraris in F-1, Ernest Maragall went well, but has been losing positions during the race. And Gabriel Rufián skids in the bends. So the engineers had to go into action to accelerate and take the chicane. It was Oriol Junqueras who proclaimed in Girona that 1-O was organized by them, who are the strength of the sovereignist pedigree, while accusing Junts of being the party that “disdains, hides and is ashamed of independence”.
Oops, what did he say! Hours later, at the central event in Manresa, Jordi Turull, the general secretary of Junts, packed himself (it’s a metaphor) like Bravehart after being wounded with a dagger in the battle of Falkirk: “Vote for our formation it is the guarantee that ERC will not throw in the bin the votes of 1-O, which the people defended with heart and soul”. The box of thunder is not only open but it threatens to cause a fire in times when the drought favors them. And since she was passing by, Laura Borrà s also reproached the republicans for allying themselves with the PSC to violate her rights as a deputy, without entering into their malpractice, which ended with a conviction in the courts.
Independence is not dead, but it is in poor health. No one is interested in finding a vaccine that will bring it back. The struggle for hegemony prevails over any romanticism, in the face of surprise (or disbelief) of those who embraced the sovereignist faith. But the result of two disqualifications is a game that adds up to zero, no matter how much one (and the others) stay at ease throwing reproaches without regard.
