The meteorologist Tomàs Molina announces that he is running in the elections on the ERC lists. He promises a Compromís Molina that, despite the transcendence of the formulation, is part of the history of good intentions, usually belied by reality. The temptation to compare the weather forecast and the electoral show invites us to recall the statement of the journalist and humorist Philippe Bouvard: “Meteorology is a science that allows us to know the weather that should have been”.
Politics – and especially Catalan politics – also works like this: diagnoses are announced which are then revised with the recurring interpretation of satanic Spanish sabotage. What should have been done takes precedence over what has actually been done. And, by the way, a frustration is consolidating that feeds the increasingly flaccid muscles of hope and the feeling of living trapped in an incompetent political and administrative reality.
In Venezuela, the electoral frenzy also includes newsworthy particularities. Nicolás Maduro has been animating the campaigns for years now with, among other things, clothing contributions such as the use of brightly colored tracksuits (he even brought one from Barça). The custom of the Venezuelan tracksuit comes from far away, but we must not rule out that it ended up being imposed as an electoral costume. Vogue magazine asked a few days ago “How is it that the tracksuit has become the fashion obsession of 2024?”. Balenciaga, Loewe and Gucci include tracksuits in their shows.
The images of the singer Mushkaa saying that Catalan should not be imposed aggressively have also circulated with the turbo of slanderous slander, out of time and out of context, so typical of our time and, oh surprise, we find that wear tracksuit The first candidate with a chance (Salvador Illa, Pere Aragonès, Carles Puigdemont) who appears in an electoral debate wearing a tracksuit – are you up for it, Molina?–, will get added media attention, free of charge, which will be hailed by the new manipulation channels of masses and that will connect with – now pro nobis – the young audience.
At La Cope, Carlos Herrera regrets that so many Easter processions have had to be suspended due to bad weather and storm Nelson. He also explains that, during the return operation, there were large caravans of electric cars waiting their turn to recharge batteries. The sale of electric cars does not match the infrastructure of charging points, another deception between the principles of supply and demand. The other day a taxi driver explained to me that every day he has to spend an hour charging his car battery. Here, perhaps, there is a market vein: large surfaces with many charging points that, at the same time, offer food, drink, massages, manicures, tattoos and the sale of tracksuits.
