Everyone knows what to do, Mr. President. Why aren't they doing it?
The problem is concrete: aside from the lack of political power (autonomy is utterly insufficient given the magnitude of our problems), it's the political and administrative paralysis, which, under the guise of due process, has transformed political management into a bureaucratic labyrinth where the only thing that matters is clinging to power—a kind of "whoever keeps pushing, keeps moving" mentality. And that's how things are going for us.
President Isla's statement still lingers in current political affairs,"I know what needs to be done, what Catalonia needs"An idea he will surely elaborate on in his interview on TV3 tonight at 10 pm. Coming from him, it can only mean collaboration with the State, such as bringing in the second-in-command to the Minister of Transport to put an end to the Renfe and Adif chaos on the commuter rail lineAnd a demand for Esquerra and Comuns to approve the budget. The leader of the opposition in exile, Carles Puigdemont, rightly reminded Salvador Illa yesterday that the legislature didn't begin yesterday, that he has been governing for a year and a half, lest the Catalan government try to use his medical discharge as a way to reset the clock.
On closer inspection, the explosion of problems at the beginning of this year in Catalonia (teachers, doctors, trains, housing) is a consequence of how slow the solutions are in the political-administrative framework for problems that hundreds of experts have been diagnosing for years: There is a shortage of doctors.But we can't train more people because of the single university district; we can't pay them more because the money is flowing out of Catalonia and never coming back, and medical professionals are leaving to work in Europe, so we have to bring them in from abroad, some of whom make a scene because a patient speaks to them in Catalan. The commuter rail crisis has been going on for 20 years. The housing shortage has also been known for some time. (What's the point of a Catalan high school diploma? Why is there still a shortage of skilled workers that vocational training should provide? Why isn't the teaching degree more demanding?, to name just a few more). We're slow to solve problems that are growing very rapidly. The statement by Councilor Paneque that "we found the commuter rail system to be much worse than we had imagined" is quite explicit about the lack of a sense of urgency with which the political class addresses society's problems.
Of course, Isla, and any other president, and any of us who are even moderately informed, knows what's lacking in our country. And I'm not referring to grand solutions. The problem is concrete: aside from the lack of political power (autonomy is utterly insufficient given the magnitude of our problems), it's the political and administrative paralysis, which, under the guise of due process, has transformed political management into a bureaucratic labyrinth where the only thing that matters is clinging to power—a kind of "whoever keeps pushing, keeps moving" mentality. And that's how things are going for us.
Good morning.
