In La 2, Daniel Sirera, PP councillor, says that he likes Mayor Jaume Collboni, but that he is “dragging his feet”. It is an affectionate way of – I interpret – calling him lazy. He also qualifies the idea of ??introducing the figure of “the mayor at night” as an occurrence. I imagine the mayor at night facing the seventy (!) vandals who attacked and sabotaged the trains on lines 4 and 2 of the metro. In Barcelona, ??vandalism is a tradition that contrasts with the nocturnal offer which, in legal terms, suffers from regulations that are impossible to apply.
Away from the insecurity, Ada Colau appears in Aquí Catalunya (Ser) and asks that the left-wing agreement with Mayor Collboni (the one dragging his feet) be concretized. What if, in the case of a politician, laziness was more convenient than incompetence? A popular proverb says it: “Excessive zeal has killed more people than laziness”. “Did they make a mistake with the promise of term limits?” asks Pablo Tallón. Colau replies that it was a good idea to break the vocational monoculture. In conclusion, and manipulating the same mutant scruples, he remembers that there is a fine print that relativizes the promise (so that, I interpret, he can break it).
In the morning, Catalunya Ràdio interviews the president Pere Aragonès, confirmed as ERC candidate in the next elections. On the expansion of the airport, the president is ambiguous and makes an exhibition of euphemisms and a prodigious mastery of the obvious and vague. It’s one of his skills: a sprawling talkativeness that sounds compelling without ever losing its structural monotony. Perhaps because the alternative was the epic and emotional grandiloquence of Oriol Junqueras, ERC has preferred a presidential tone in which saying nothing (or nothing much) does not penalize as much as promising, shouting, gold and moro
If Junqueras defends his ideology with an erudition that can be intimidating, Aragonès cultivates a technocratic discourse in which it is very difficult to separate the grain of truth from the straw of propaganda. But beware: the tone of public representatives is increasingly important. Through the tremendista route, verbal extremism connects with populist despair. And in a more civilized dimension, respect can use mild and less confrontational formulas. A few days ago, Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Gaza, declared: “It is very likely that genocide is being committed in Gaza”. If we applied elto Albanese, there would be less tension. If in a traffic dispute (or between political parties) we are about to kill each other, we can say, without raising our voice too much, “it is very likely that you are a son of a bitch”, which sounds much more civilized than the formula usual
