Catalanism and the judicial siege of the PSOE

BarcelonaIt is now known that the end of the Spanish legislature will be a judicial ordeal for the PSOE. As we explain today, there are up to seven open judicial fronts against members of the party or the government, and that's if there are no secret cases underway that could appear at any moment. Many things can be said, but the only certainty is that the legislature began with right-wing protests in the streets and demonstrations by judges against the amnesty law, and it ends with a judicial siege on a party as has not been remembered at least since the end of the Francoist era.

In this totum revolutum there is a bit of everything: cases that do not hold up, like that of Begoña Gómez, but which are kept alive by the will of a judge who does not hide his animosity towards the government, such as Juan Carlos Peinado, with others with more or less serious indications of corruption, but in which either there are no clear proofs, as in the case of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, or the allegedly embezzled money has not been found, as in the Cerdán case. Be that as it may, the feeling of an end of a cycle is evident and all of this will culminate in elections, before or after the municipal ones, in which the right, the sum of PP and Vox, will aspire to have an overwhelming majority in Congress to impose its agenda.

This is the reality that Catalanism also faces, ranging from the PSC to the CUP, via Junts, and which until now had opted to support the Spanish left as a measure of national and social self-protection. For now, Junts has already made it clear that it will not support a motion of no confidence against Sánchez, and this is an intelligent measure because, in the face of the more than predictable change of government in the medium term, it is necessary to accelerate as much as possible the achievement of agreements that benefit Catalonia. For this reason, it is also not the time for early elections. In this regard, there are two issues that, according to the latest poll by ARA, have the majority support of Catalan society and are crucial for the future of the country. On the one hand, the transfer of competencies in immigration, agreed between the PSOE and Junts and to which Podem now seems open. And on the other hand, the new financing system, agreed between ERC and the Spanish government, which would mean an injection of 4,700 million euros for the coffers of the Generalitat at a time of great need. It is also essential that the Constitutional Court rules on the legality of the amnesty before the end of the year and this regrettable chapter is closed.

Obviously, there are other important issues that should be accelerated, such as the Innofab project, or the unblocking of key infrastructures for the Catalan economy, but those three should be absolutely priority and strategic. It can be argued that it is a mistake to support a moribund government riddled with multiple corruption cases. But hand on heart: can anyone think that the PP is a better alternative from the point of view of cleanliness and honesty? And from the point of view of Catalonia?