Antoni Bassas' analysis: "Catalan makes Ayuso feel like a foreigner."

They have an army, secret services, a justice system administered in the name of a king, embassies, a seat in NATO and the EU, a World Cup, and even two Eurovision Song Contests, but the Spanish right, in its attempt to return to power, peddles the idea that Spain is breaking up. Certainly, on October 1, 2017, their shirts weren't touching their skin, and even if it was only a theoretical exercise, they had to face the thought for the first time in life: "What if Catalonia…?" Reinforced, then, by the nightmare of the Trial, the pardons, and the amnesty, the PP intends to return to power by reviving May 2, 1808, and the cry of the mayor of Móstoles, "The homeland is in danger."

A phrase rewritten in a thousand ways: "We have come to defend Spain," "Spain will not remain silent," "Let us tear down the walls of Spain," etc. method", "We won't make the wrong adversary", "I want to do like Aznar, who put the PP at the center"), Ayuso contradicts him in every sentence: "Those who fabricate new identities are unnecessary", "Dictatorships come in with drinks" and her now historic "If they talk to me in Catalan, I'm leaving". be a warm-up in the streets for the extraordinary congress of the party that is due to be held in a month, and in which Feijóo wants to grow in authority, to see if Ayuso, Aznar and the media cavern leave him very long, the opposition, as well as the PSOE here, more or less there where we always are, with the PP denying the plurinationality of Spain and the PSOE pretending to embrace it out of necessity. day I was with the presidents Torra, Aragonès and Urkullu talking calmly in Spanish, and that what would not make sense is that afterwards all of them entered a meeting and wanted to speak each in their own language. public, boasting the institutional representation of the country. It happens every day in Brussels: Most understand each other in English, but then, at certain events, they use their own language. It's taken 48 years to begin changing this mentality, and even then it was only because of the PSOE's need. Ayuso said it: hearing people speak to her in Catalan makes her feel like a foreigner in her own country.