The decision of Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) to win time and transferring to the militancy the last word on whether or not to leave the Government is a new patch that will not resolve the endless crisis in relations between the two parties that make up the Consell Executiu. One more delay in this conflict is a new sample disrespect to a citizenry that has gone from stupefaction to disconnection, this time not from Madrid but from those who should be having as a priority managing the institutions of self-government of Catalonia.
After a very long executive meeting, Junts opted for the middle street. It is true that consultation with the membership It was included in the program that was approved in the congress last June, but in any normal country the sudden and unilateral dismissal of a vice president of a political formation of a coalition government would entail a clear response from the affected party. That a member party of a coalition government requires the president of that Executive to submit to a confidence motion would also be unthinkable. How is it possible that Junts present this lawsuit, which does not only affect the president of the Generalitat but the entire Government of which he is a part? And if only one part of a government party insisted on playing against while the rest opted for a consistent loyaltythe inevitable would be the rupture of this formation, with the radicals criticizing the Government from where it belongs, the seats of the opposition, at least in that hypothetical normality from which we are so far away.
What happened is nothing more than the culmination of a government pact caught by the hair which was only achieved after weeks of negotiations and after Junts twice prevented the investiture of Aragonès, already pointing to what is a constant inherited from his convergent gene: feed the chaos every time he does not preside over the institutions. During what we have been in this legislature, the priority of both parties seems to have been rather to avoid the cost of recognizing that the ‘procés’ has become a dead end (and getting it to fall back on the contrary). A real conflict between parties, and within one of them, which must have a conclusion but whose price the country cannot pay, penalized by the absolute subordination of any government work to the dynamics of competition and mistrust between Junts and ERC.
The coup of authority of Pere Aragonès dismissing Puigneró for loss of confidence by hiding Junts’ intentions from him in Parliament is totally understandable. But after having shown so much patience in the face of gestures of internal dissent from the party led by Turull and Borràs, the Republicans may have miscalculated the moment in which they decided to lose her.
After the actions of the (still?) partners these days, the crisis has already exceeded any limit and in just a few hours has made the Aragonès proposal to explore the Canadian route, which deserved to be considered, has been left in the background . The current situation has de facto broken the Government and sharpens the contradictions between the two wings of Junts. The serious prospects of economic and social crisis and the need to propose long-term projects cannot be addressed with a Government that is actually two. These contradictions must be overcome, resolved or come to the ultimate consequences, and sooner rather than later. Paraphrasing Jordi Turull, you can’t go on like this.