Right-wing media, Catalan Alliance and myopia

The little stop The Junts party's failure to allow Sílvia Orriols to remain mayor of Ripoll has led to the Spanish far-right newspapers talking extensively about the Catalan Alliance. And it is interesting to see in what terms they do so, bearing in mind that these are media outlets that, when they write about Vox, usually do an ankle-breaking slalom to avoid labelling them as far-right. The reason, for example, these days they spare them the qualifier, but in the newspaper's archives there are plenty of examples in which Alianza is defined as an ultra party. Neither in theAbc They don't lose their rings to identify them like that. And The World speaks of "the ultra Orriols" from the very beginning. Obviously, none of these media have hung up on the leader of Vox and the words ultra and Abascal They only appear together if it is a quote from a third party.

I don't know to what extent this insistence on not calling things by their name is just cynicism to whitewash the parties of hate or there is a good dose of self-deception. Because if you publish that in Europe and around the world there are proliferating far-right, anti-immigration parties, etc., it is only the mere right of the centre-right block. And warning of the danger of Junts drifting towards disturbing positions without noting the great drag that Abascal and company have exercised with the hesitant Popular Party of Feijóo is one more example, the umpteenth, of the double standards with which these media look at Catalonia.