The Meaning of Amnesty
If all the talk around the amnesty has to serve the idea that it is a victory, perhaps it is not. If the rhetoric to justify it has to be based on the epic of the conflict, perhaps it destroys the conflict.
In the plenary session of Congress on the amnesty law, the pro-independence parties have been trapped in the trap that they have set for themselves: with the desire to electorally take advantage of the pact with Sánchez, they have whitewashed an amnesty that, after the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, we can now say that it has not brought them any electoral returns.
The Pact and its Implications
Sánchez makes an agreement to protect the principles that he considers valuable, while the pro-independence parties, by making an agreement, renounce their own.
Deliberately confusing desire and reality, the pro-independence parties boast that they have brought Pedro Sánchez to his knees. But all it takes is a ‘we have defeated the independence movement’ from Sánchez himself to overthrow this narrative because, to a large extent, the independence movement, as we have known it until now, knows it has been defeated.
Symbolism and Reality
Pedro Sánchez attacks Catalonia against Spain, making us believe that he is the one who forgives the independentists, when, in reality, it is the independentists who excuse him and legitimize him, propping him up.
There are no real options to win anything if there is no one with power willing to self-criticize and pay the price. There is no victory within the reach of someone who is so weak that he does not even want to admit that he has allowed himself to be won.
