In every government in the world there is a senior plumber. ‘House of Cards’ or ‘The West Wing’ showed us on the screen the insides of this type of figure whose face we hardly even get used to. In Spain, personalities such as Luis Sánchez-Merlo, Julio Feo, José Enrique Serrano, Carlos Aragonés, Jorge Moragas, José Luis Ayllón and Iván Redondo. In Catalonia, the most legendary figure in this position was Luis Prenafetafinally convicted of corruption, in addition to Joaquim Triadú, Carles Duarte, Ernest Maragall, Ramon García Bragado, Pancho Táboas, Joaquim Nin and Meritxell Masó. A curiosity that reflects some of the things that happen in Catalonia: in the wikipedia Only those who held these positions with CiU/Junts governments are listed. For many, too many, the Generalitat exists when it is governed by whom. Anecdotes aside, that role is played today Sergi Sabria under the name of director of the office of the President.
Prenafeta tells in his memoirs that the day they entered the Palau in 1980, Jordi Pujol released him: “Lluís, the Generalitat is you and me”. Both came to believe it to the point that when, in 2003, the Pujols left Plaça Sant Jaume, the president’s wife said that she had the feeling that “they had entered her house & rdquor ;. And that at that time we knew nothing of her role as superior of a convent in which the family’s finances were kept in black as if they were missals. Be that as it may, the squire of the president of the Generalitat has always had a decisive weight, largely because in this institution protocol, communication and appearances weigh much more than real power, more administrative than political. Those who occupy this position are usually reflections of their bosses. Prenafeta was one of the thousand faces of Pujol while Duarte was quite another. García Bragado, tried and acquitted for corruption, had features of Maragall and Táboas had those of José Montilla with whom he could share a car ride for six hours and not say a word. From intrigue to discretion, the range of registers is wide.
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Sabrià is now the squire of Pere Aragonès. They are the result of a strange time. Due to their age, as the information experts on the Republicans explain, it would not be their turn to be in Sant Jaume but in some ministry. Aragonès was already after the arrest of Oriol Junqueras and Sabrià was parliamentary spokesman after Marta Rovira’s departure for Switzerland. From those positions they dealt with the extravagances of Quim Torra from the presidency. His mantra for a year has been not to be like Torra. Although this forces them to navigate in turbulent waters, between the still hyperventilated world of a part of Puigdemont’s party, the outbursts of the CUP and the silences of Pedro Sánchez. Aragonès and Sabrià are the essence of what political coffee growers call “Esquerra-govern” in a slightly hostile dialectic for now with the “Esquerra-partit” led by Marta Rovira through Marta Vilalta and the “Esquerra-moviment” of Junqueras.
The project of Winter Olympic Games It perfectly synthesizes that whirlwind that Sabrià manages as best he can and as he knows how. He deals well with the world of the old Convergència that is familiar to him, knows the parliamentary technique and knows how to weather his party. Another thing is the institutional relations that can overwhelm a position that is already complex. A meeting to lower tension with the president of Aragon, Javier Lambán, this week ended like the rosary of dawn by a heat in which the possible path of leaving in the hands of the Spanish Olympic Committee the distribution of the competitions between the various ski resorts of the Pyrenees led to the precipice of the number of Spanish and Catalan flags that would be put up and to reopen the dispute of sacred art between two leftist governments. On Thursday, Sabrià was not a reflection of Aragonès and his counterpart left Lambán in a better situation, more given to the outbursts that this time he knew how to contain. The minister Vilagrà and the president of the COE, Alejandro Blanco have in their hands return to the path of a project full of nostalgia for the decadent classes of Barcelona and ambition for that dynamic Catalonia that Esquerra aspires to represent. And that’s not about flags or relics.