Antoni Bassas's Analysis: 'Puigdemont and Rufián tweet on a Sunday morning'

The week begins with a hangover from the previous one, which already speaks volumes about the level of slowdown or general gridlock that Catalan politics has reached, with no budgets in sight in either Catalonia or Spain, and none of the major agreements reached by Junts and Esquerra with the Socialists have been finalized.

Even yesterday, the president Puigdemont felt the need to explain himself In a long tweet on X, he recalled things like "in Madrid we have never gone to make friends or to act like such nice Catalans that they don't seem Catalan" or that "we comply, but the levers of power are all exclusively in their hands" and if they don't use them, he recalled Trias and his "may they pump you all."

Not even an hour had passed since the Esquerra deputy Gabriel Rufián responded on the same network with another long tweetThe article begins with the phrase: "Too much talk to justify you throwing all this out with the PP and VOX." It then lists 23 laws that must be voted on in Congress.

The Junts' refusal to continue negotiations in Madrid This has led, according to today's El País, to Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment del Trabajo, traveling to Waterloo this week to meet with Puigdemont to discuss the implications of labor legislation and energy policies. Over the past two years, the relationship between Foment and Junts has been smooth, and Foment now fears losing a party that could defend some of its interests. Meanwhile, Rufián continues his "I told you so" line, saying that this would end with Junts supporting the right and far right—something that, so far, hasn't happened. Junts has already said that a motion of censure in favor of Feijóo will not pass.

All of this is profoundly tiring and slow, in a world that moves at a fast pace and has become very expensive, and with a society that is increasingly demanding and financially just. Look at what it says, in another tweet, the mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas:

"Since I was appointed mayor, we haven't received any budget from the Generalitat or the Spanish government. It's been almost three years, and we municipalities are seeing everything extended and being asked to do much more."

Under these conditions, political analysis can only confirm the rampant corruption in the PSOE, the PP's subservience to Vox (this week they must finish deciding who they will put in as president in the Valencian Country) and a political balance so precarious that it does not respond to the needs of the people, precisely now that it would be fundamental for the macroeconomic figures to translate into policies in favor.

Good morning.