Despite the efforts of the President Sanchez so that we pick up speed and, thanks to the tunnel effect, let’s only see Vox on the horizon of the general elections, reality is still very complex and understanding it is the mission and purpose of our journalism. No media outside of Catalonia has yet looked at the results of the municipal elections in Ripoll, the cradle of the jihadist terrorists of the attacks on La Rambla in 2017a shock that did not emerge in the 2019 elections, but that it has now. Catalan Alliancean independentist and far-right party, has won the elections by going from one to six councilors, just the five that Junts has lost. Daniel G. Tailor walk through the streets of Ripoll in this report to understand what has happened and what it has to do with a mix of misunderstood goodness and the drive for exclusion that resides in all nationalism, including Catalan nationalism.
For simplists and simplifiers, Ripoll is not news because they have considered all the independence movement as a mere exercise in supremacism. The reality is more complex. In the same way that his opponents solve the debate by branding all Spanish politics as heir to a Spanish dictatorship. Citizens live, feel and suffer from problems without the ideological burden of all politicians and many journalists. That does not mean that ideologies are dead. It simply means that not everyone or in all circumstances interposes the glasses of ideology to his gaze on the reality he lives. as you have written Najat El Hachmi, The fear of Islamophobia has generated in the Catalan mainstream a certain lukewarmness towards Islamic radicalism that has seemed to have too much consent in the eyes of those who suffer from it every day. To Junts, for example, from the attack in Barcelona, He was only interested in the alleged connection of the Ripoll imam with the CNI without putting any emphasis on all the filters, from the city council and the Generalitat that they governed, which had allowed those kids to end up blowing up the van on the Rambla. Along with inflation, the extreme right, also that of Catalan origin, grows thanks to the lack of self-criticism of the parties of the system when something goes wrong.