An inframental debate
If the reader has had enough patience to follow this latest campaign, with a level of truly submental debates, it is normal to have the feeling of having attended the least European elections in history.
Indeed, the tussle between Sánchez and Feijóo – which the PSOE leader has won for many months, regardless of today’s result – has made Begoña Gómez and the amnesty for Catalan exiles more prominent than the ( more than necessary) rearmament of Europe in a community army or than the migration policy of the Old Continent.
The disenchantment of Europeans
Democracy is the essential problem of Europe, since the voters of France and Holland opposed the project of the European Constitution that was signed in Rome in 2004 and that the bureaucracy of Brussels closed in false, approving the Treaty of Lisbon without any popular support.
This, and not the emergence of the far-right, explains the progressive disenchantment of Europeans with their common government, if we compare it with the continental optimism of the eighties and nineties.
The future of united Europe
The emergence of isolationist policies that today will celebrate the night with liters of champagne is not good news for Europeanists, but with the radical right of the continent it will happen like with VOX in Spain.
A year ago, Abascal’s party bet to destroy the Spanish autonomous system; now that the deputies of VOX have very hot buttocks in the parliaments of the country, not even God dares to discuss it.
The role of Catalonia
Since independence went from a nationalist claim to unilateral action, with the imposition of the 1-0 referendum, the movement became Europeanized, in the sense that Catalonia was placed at the center of democratic debate
All attempts to pacify this conflict (namely, to stifle the inalienable right of the Catalans to govern themselves as they wish through the ballot box) will fail in the long run.
At the moment, unlike Rajoy’s autism with Europe, Pedro Sánchez has been slowly seducing Ursula von der Leyen based on an apparent pacification of the Catalan problem (the president of the continent, despite Feijóo’s pleas, has not spoken of the amnesty for the exiles not even in the PP meetings, and it will not be that they did not ask for it), but, despite the efforts of the PSOE leader and Illa’s narrow victory in Parliament, the waters are still not clear ‘have calmed down enough to turn the page.
The future of Catalonia and Spain
In fact, the funny thing about it all is that – with all the progressive and European propaganda in favor of Sánchez – Illa did not manage to win the Spanish plebiscite in Catalonia.
It should also be emphasized that independence, despite having leaders absolutely discredited by their triple morality and cathedral cynicism, have still managed to save the furniture.
This is helped by the fact that, from 2017 to the last elections, there are a million independentists who have not changed their political ideology, but who have seen very clearly that with this generation of leaders we will not even reach the corner.
If the Spanish parties, despite the quarrel between the PP and the PSOE, still exhibit or curse the amnesty, it is because the Catalan question is the only hot potato that Spain has to be treated as a First World democracy.
We have very sinister leaderships, true; but Europe still looks down on us.
The future of united Europe
It is enough to read articles by López Burniol in Can Godó, where he decries a reunification of bipartisanship in Spain that leads to a federal structure of the State, to see how Catalonia continues to be the open wound of the Spanish in Europe.
In this sense, I said at the beginning, these may have been the most European elections we have experienced and this has caused the short-term limits of the Puigdemont and Junqueras candidates to be even more evident.
Whatever the outcome tonight for all of us, the continent will still have to resolve the anti-democratic occupation facing eight of its million inhabitants.
At the moment, they have put patches on it and they are not going away. We’ll see what happens. They say it will rain today, so we will take advantage of the trickle that God gives us to stay at home and admire how the rain cleans the Saharan dust from the street.