Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'A few MNAC resisters'

Hello, how are you?

Yesterday, while we were waiting for Sánchez's end-of-season report, I told you that the Spanish president, deeply affected by the corruption in the Cerdán and Ábalos cases, had no choice but to resist, because he didn't seem to be in a position to approve a budget. And so it was. To project an illusion of strength (a pale illusion, of course), he announced that would present a draft budget Even if he doesn't have the support tied up, which he doesn't. How will Sánchez be? who said he was willing to meet with Puigdemont to approve themIt's a lure that the president in exile is unlikely to fall for. It's a tempting lure: today, Junts' main strength is its seven deputies in Madrid, and Puigdemont has long been demanding that, given there's no judicial amnesty, there be at least a "political amnesty," a public rehabilitation. The meeting would be one, but not for approving Sánchez's budget, but rather for immigration or Catalans in Europe. Besides, the majority of Sánchez's investiture is so heterogeneous that any of them, like Podemos, could fail him. Take note of this idea: Podemos is all the way to receiving Sánchez's blame if the Spanish government falls and a PP-Vox government is elected. Sánchez is more electorally interested in having the blame fall on Podemos, because he can reap significant electoral benefits among left-wing voters.

Meanwhile, in Catalonia, Junqueras notes that if funding depends on Vice President Montero, the candidate for the presidency of Andalusia, the negotiations cannot go well.

This was the same day that technicians from Aragon, or rather, those hired by Aragon, because they were from Valladolid, entered to take measurements of the Sijena paintings, which will soon be looted by court order. At the door of the MNAC, around fifty independentists were waiting for them. Led by the leader of the ANC, Lluís Llach, more or less like those in Montserrat or at the Liceu the other day during the visit of the king. The voluntarism of those gathered deserves all due respect, but the image is proof that the independence movement has become a matter of thought, not action. It hasn't disappeared: the latest CEO study put the independence movement at 40%, which, frankly, after so much repression and disunity, is remarkable. What do Junts, Esquerra, or the CUP say when they see these images? It's time to focus more on self-respect than on grievances, with renewed leadership and new narratives. Because the reasons for holding on to it remain.

Good morning.