The Catalan political model has been broken since “Operation,” and the announced reconstruction of Ella is nothing more than a mirage, a mystery. The current president of the state has collected a portion of the votes of the old boxers – the voice of the moderate bourgeoisie that does not trust me … Secession – along with the usual agents of the PSC, but the nationalist bloc dissolved into its own anti-regime dynamic. Esquerra is losing his nerve, Gantz is unable to overcome the weak leadership of the Brussels fugitive, and now both are threatened by the emergence of the mayor of Ripoll with a speech that has begun to make its way into the ballot box by combining the immigration problem with the demand for independence.
Calling Sylvia Orioles a xenophobe is kind of a rallying cry. All separatist tendencies are based on an irrational feeling of rejection of the stranger. Except that it adds the rejection of Muslims and Latin Americans to the exclusionary campaign that until today has focused on Spaniards and the state. It was only a matter of time before the immigration issue entered the “process” to destabilize its traditional assumptions; When the Treasury of Vernacular Purity is opened, it is very difficult to close it again without the demons trapped there escaping. The doctrine of “un sol poble” has hidden a messianic delirium, a discriminatory mythology in which there is always room for controversial prophets.
Many nationalist voters are concerned about the growing proportion of African immigrants, whose arrival the independence movement itself promoted on the idea that linguistic assimilation would quickly assimilate them to their irredeemable faith. But they had concerns about approaching the Vox Party because of its hostility to home rule. They found in Aliança Catalana the perfect argument, the perfect programme: all foreigners are out, including the Spaniards of course. An unexpected version of the “process”, version 3.0 that emerged from the depths of Catalonia where coexistence is deteriorating amid an abundance of ethnic neighbourhoods. A ballot that every good Catalan can choose without regretting betraying Manifest Destiny.
What is taking shape now is an electoral collapse that will crush the current balance between parliamentary forces. The association between the People’s Party and Vox results in the dissolution of the traditional right into a fragmented minority; Socialists suffer from the erosion of Sanchismo, although the tripartite structure holds; Puigdemont, who is harassed by the strength of his new competitor, does not know how to contain his loss or whether the departure of the Prime Minister will benefit or harm him. The process of normalization has turned into a farce because the sovereign virus has not stopped weakening the immune system in a society troubled by its ancient ghosts. In the end, xenophobia only transforms according to the laws of thermodynamics.
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