Antoni Bassas' analysis: "Equating amnesty to corruption"

We look back at the fires in Segarra, Noguera and Urgell, which have caused two dead and that big column of smokeThey call it a pyrocumulus, generated by the fire itself and the heat. There's growing concern that the heat wave will dry everything out, but fortunately, a cooling off in temperatures and afternoon rain are on the way for half the country, and we hope this will be a welcome relief, in every sense.

Temperatures are rising, and the threat of uncontrollable wildfires is a reality we already have here, as firefighter Marc Castellnou has been tireless in saying. We have one. Very good emergency service, with great professionalsWith a lot of good technology and experience, even the best service can't cope with the combination of extreme heat, extreme wind, and extreme dryness. Politics must continue to serve this reality.

However, while we're distracted by other things, Catalan and Spanish politics continue to revolve around the Cerdán case. Above all, Feijóo wraps himself up.

When the PSOE is on the ropes, the PP leader orders contacts with all the parties, intending to get them involved, with the solemn idea that if they don't support the PP, they are PSOE accomplices. The solemnity is the foolishness: the rest of Congress wants nothing to do with a party that is working hand in hand with Vox, and that is not the paradigm of economic honesty. The person in charge of making the contacts was Tellado, who is tipped to be the new PP general secretary. The PNV almost hung up on him. They were angry, because if you really want to explore the possibility of collaborating, you can't first go to the media and put your gun to your chest saying "either against Sánchez or in favor of corruption." He sent a message to Junts and then a call to comply. Their response was so familiar that we already told you yesterday here: if the PP wants something from Junts, they should go to Belgium to meet with Puigdemont. And said and done, this is what they replied.

The fact is that the former secretary of organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, is in prison, and not so much so that he cannot destroy evidence but so that Do not try to agree on an answer with other people involvedIt seems he had open accounts abroad to deposit commissions from the companies to which Minister Ábalos awarded the project. The question remains whether Sánchez knew about it (because Cerdán and Ábalos were close associates), whether he looked the other way, or whether he failed in his duty to be vigilant.

Therefore, it has been Sánchez's responsibility that Spanish politics is in disarray. And this complicates the immediate future of the Catalan administration: in three Fridays, on the 18th, The European Council must reconsider the issue of Catalan in Europe., which faces strong German resistance. Remember that the new chancellor is from the same political family as the PP and, therefore, very sensitive to pressure from Dolors Montserrat. It doesn't look good for July. And before then, on the 14th, we should know what agreement the Catalan and Spanish governments have reached regarding financing.

The Cerdán case (for now, just Cerdán) points to a serious case of corruption. But don't doubt that a section of the justice system and the entire Spanish political and media right (and socialists like Felipe González) are behind the idea that everything—the commissions and the amnesty—were part of the same corruption. That one made the other possible. Therefore, by putting Cerdán in prison, they see the man who made a pact with Puigdemont more than a corrupt person.

Good morning.