The ghost of Waterloo -that’s to say : Puigdemont- He continues to wander like a suffering soul. He experiences his last moment of glory after his second escape to the heart of Barcelona. With the inefficiency – or collaboration – of the Mossos. But since then, he hasn’t looked up. Neither him nor his party. Socialists run the Generality, inside Barcelona City Hall and in Madrid. Ultimately, politics is about commanding.
Indeed, his successor, Salvador Illa, made an official trip to Brussels. Only 30 kilometers from the city where Napoleon lost his empire. Or what was left of him. However, she avoided seeing him. At least publicly. Approach the so-called “House of the Republic”. In Catalonia, everything is fake.
Puigdemont He got really angry. In an article on Illa He met with the rest of the former presidents – even Pujol – “he thinks it’s not the time to meet me.” Then he lamented being “a few miles away” and ended with the sound of “repression.” I wanted the photo! A summit in Waterloo!
The truth is that, in part, what Puigdemont is doing is a horn attack. Salvador Illa even found time to meet students from the College of Europe. Even with the president of the Canary Islands!, who was also in Brussels. On TV3, they consoled themselves by saying they had interviewed the former Minister of Culture Luis Puig during an event at the delegation of the Generalitat in Belgium. In the channel’s own images we see that it is not a meeting, but all my best wishes. And much shorter than the one Biden gave Sánchez at that NATO summit. Which means something.
It was also Gordi who went to Brussels, came back and left again. A man of firm decisions, as you can see. He started as a firefighter. Without prejudice to such a courageous profession. And he became Minister of Culture because Santi Vila was promoted to Head of Affairs.
But hey, on this blessed Catalan land, they continue to do their work. In Parliament, they solemnly commemorated the tenth anniversary of 9-N. This consultation which later became the embryo of the 1-0. They did so ten days later: November 19. A little more and 20-N catches up.
In the front row, they were all barely ten years older. Some more backgrounds. With gray hair. Or even glasses. Like the one who was then all-powerful advisor to the Presidency, Francesc Homs. The one who predicted that if the Supreme Court convicted him Spain would sink. Marchena, as it could not be otherwise, ended up condemning him. I think he now makes a living, or at least tries to, as a lawyer. Poor customers.
More than a commemoration, it seemed almost a funeral Or an act of the Junts, because they constituted the vast majority of this party. Except the former CUP deputy Daniel Fernández, the one who hugged Artur Mas.
Rull himself declared that the 9-N was an “intangible heritage” and that it was a “collective success”. While Mas affirmed that “the desire to move from autonomy to sovereignty is still valid.” The former president oscillates between justifying the old Convergence – like last Sunday in The Avant-garde and become a leader cupaire.
They’ve been living history for ten years! This reminded me of the presentation, in July 2015, of the coalition between the CDC and the ERC. In a place as solemn as the terrace of the History Museum of Catalonia. It had a symbolic charge.
The electoral program was the road map to independence. In 18 months, Catalonia would be a new European state. The count began on the same date as the elections: September 27. Just a few days after the Diada. To get the boost.
They thought it would be a piece of cake. The state would do nothing. Neither do the rest of the Catalans. More than half. They provided for a unity government, state structures, a unilateral declaration of independence, constituent elections, the drafting of a new Constitution and a constitutional referendum. On the other hand, no less than four calls in a year and a half. The deadline expired in March 2017. Rufián is currently still in Congress.
