Antoni Bayona, who was a lawyer in the Parliament of Catalonia until 2018, wrote a book entitled Sobrevivir al procés, in which he said that, despite the Catalan pactist tradition, there have been moments in its history that have shown the inability to manage the situations of political and social tension. In these cases, he has shown a lack of patience that has suddenly made him say enough, forget the culture of the agreement and take things to all or nothing. And he concludes: “These turns are dangerous because, to make them, you need to know well the sources of power and what it means. Some peoples are familiar with power, but others are not. Catalonia seems to be in the latter case”.
I have the feeling that JxCat is tempted to force the machine unnecessarily in order to show ERC that they do know how to win the pulse of Pedro Sánchez, while putting the judiciary against the ropes. As in the joke about the Basques, Puigdemont’s party does not know if it is going for Rolex or for mushrooms, if it wants to get resources for Catalonia to recover or to teach the State a lesson.
This week, the PNB managed to sign the agreement for the acquisition of the Loyola barracks, in addition to having the modification of the base law approved so that municipalities with more than 4,000 inhabitants can be segregated and the priority of regional agreements over state ones. Three commitments of the Spanish Government for the investiture, which have to do with things, what Ortega would say.
Meanwhile, Minister Félix Bolaños had to devote his time to giving explanations to several magistrates and informing them that the Executive considers that judges should not attend congressional investigative commissions in accordance with the Constitution and the law of the Judiciary. The intervention of Míriam Nogueras, spokesperson for JxCat, against a series of magistrates whom she described as “indecent”, has generated great discomfort. But none of this will improve the lives of Catalans, nor will it facilitate the amnesty. Nothing is gained by pointing the finger in the eye of the judges, especially when the person doing it does not have glasses to perceive reality well.