The useless independence movement, article by Sergi Sol

Once Pedro Sánchez is invested – for now the only certainty – he will become Collboni to close agreements in the Barcelona’s town hall. And it turns out that after so many screams It could be with Trias as well as with Colau or Maragall. Or a triangulation. It would be strong if Junts did now govern with Collboni in the capital of Catalonia after Puigdemont forced a break with the Aragonès Government due to ‘botiflers’. But wow, at this point the joint comedy of ‘nosurrender’ wouldn’t come from here either.

Artur Mas said on Tuesday in Ca n’Ustrell that Puigdemont could choose between coherence or usefulness. And – after six years of furiously brandishing the ‘estelada’ – he has chosen, Mas’s preferred option, to finally be useful.

When the Colomian Ruffian He defended an independence movement that “militiates in utility” and was mocked by his own (some) and strangers. Rather than mocking him, they called him the name of the pig. Of ‘Nyordo‘up, a xenophobic insult with wide popularity among pure ‘indepes’. Often ‘neoindepes’ who give all the sense in the world to preaching with the faith of the converted.

The independence movement did not know how to digest the post-October 1 revolt. At least a good part of that independence movement. In particular what he has led Puigdemont ‘the Legitimate’. Although not alone. The Republicans did it in fits and starts, excessively permeable to the angry criticism of the followers of the Legitimate. But little by little they focused on a discourse that assumed a reality that had nothing to do with theatrical fiction of a Council of the Republic which Puigdemont – with the servile acquiescence of his ministers – has treated as a clinic.

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The independence movement – if it wants to be useful and recover its temper – must know how to get back on track, stop licking its wounds and above all stop boasting about a victory that exile and prison factually refuted.

The amnesty, Rodalies or the improvements to relieve a Generalitat constrained by financial interests are a first step. Also this pinch of plurinational State that is in its infancy. But now it is strongly insinuated against the Spain brandished by the right and the extreme right.

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