The commemoration of referendum October 1, 2017 has passed, in Catalonia, without pain or glory. Seven years now. How time passes. This shows that everything was fake.
In TV3 they looked elsewhere. And they were among those who added the most fuel to the fire. Not a word on the midday news. At least in the headlines: the attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon; work in Rodalies and the next Barça Champions League match after the last setback in the League.
I don’t know if they said anything else about why I changed the channel. I thought at least they would show some footage of the police charges. Until now, at least they put them. Maybe they are repositioning themselves. After all, socialists govern in the Generality. And you don’t play with your children’s bread.
In The Avant-garde, nor anything. Cover and several interior pages for awards given by the newspaper itself. Of course, in the presence of socialist leaders: Pedro Sánchez, Salvador Illa, Jaume Collboni. That is to say, turning the page. The covers of the director of the time, José Antich, are far away. Like “Catalonia says enough” from 2012. Even if Race1 continues at your own pace.
Those of Together They celebrated it with a certain nostalgia. With a manifesto. Remember past exploits. We even speak of “collective victory”. And then yes “police persecution”, “brutal repression”. And even the “unshakeable desire” to be “an independent state”. But the truth is that, as a police officer once said, “the Republic does not exist”. Míriam Nogueras and Gabriel Rufián, among others, continue to win of the perfidious and oppressive State.
While those from ERC posted a video on their X profile asking for “fer pinya”. “Bringing ranks together”, which, in the current state of the party, is funny. I believe that today the different candidates in the running did not fight. I never would have imagined this – when Marta Rovira said that “until the end” at the gates of the Supreme Court – he was referring to finish with Oriol Junqueras. The two have been united for months, as we know, by a manifest enmity.
Anyway, how did the process end? Well, you see him asking for amnesty. Which, moreover, ran aground. It’s true that Sánchez gave up. But when you ask for amnesty, you admit defeat. What happened to them. This means that the Catalan Republic is, in the eyes of the Supreme Court, a “dream”. They don’t seem to want to try again either.
In reality, the only thing they got was Catalan in Congress, which It’s not much either the truth. This also confirms that you are not leaving. Why are you going to ask for Catalan in the parliament of the Kingdom of Spain if you are about to leave?
The good news is that independence was impossible. And everyone knew it. Professor Josep Pla (1897-1981) has a 1942 article that predicted Hitler’s defeat. It is collected in volume XXXI of his complete works. He did so, citing a friend, in February of that year. While the Nazis had not yet lost either at El Alamein (July 42) or at Stalingrad (February 43).
“Hitler lost the war,” he said. And he adds the magic phrase: “What cannot be cannot be”. Same with the process. Without wanting, of course, to compare a totalitarian system to a legitimate claim.
The separatists thought it would be a piece of cake. When they signed the CDC and ERC coalition agreement In July 2015, they anticipated independence… In 18 months! The state, it seems, would sit idly by.
The European Union would also open the doors wide to the new Catalan state. They would welcome us to Brussels like the prodigal sons of Charlemagne. Ignoring the fact that the accession of a country is done unanimously.
But if Catalonia is not independent, it is not because of the State or the European Union either. That’s because more than half of Catalans didn’t want it either. During an electoral census of 5.5 million people, the separatists only obtained two million in moments of greatest popular unrest. This is not how you can declare your independence of a territory. It doesn’t even come from a community of neighbors.
They had one last option left. Lenin’s theory: a revolutionary avant-garde. A determined minority ready for anything. Even personal sacrifices. Revolutions are made by the bare-chested workers of St. Petersburg, miners from Asturias.
Not those who spent the summer in Cerdanya and prepared paellas in Cadaqués. They wanted the Catalan Republic. But completely free. And without personal or legal consequences. The result is that Catalonia has been institutionally devastated. I would even say emotionally. No panniers were needed for this trip.
