Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Is the far right the solution? What's bread got in its eye?'

The Center for Opinion Studies published its latest poll yesterday. Almost everyone expects to repeat last year's results, with two exceptions:

Together would go down and Aliança Catalana would go upIt would increase to such an extent that it could multiply the two seats it currently has by five, reaching ten. And this is the first reading of the poll: Junts is losing voters to the Catalan Alliance. That's why today Núria Orriols, who follows Junts news for ARA, wrote this analysis:

"Together they have a problem with Sílvia Orriols". Not just Junts. Indirectly, the entire sovereignty movement. Because if the Catalan Alliance wins, an independence majority, or at least an independence government, will not be possible. Of course, for what the independence majority and the Esquerra-Junts government served, not much would be lost either. In short, Carles Puigdemont wasted no time in rememberingThat at the start of the last election campaign in the Parliament, the CEO gave better results to the PSC and ERC than those that came out, and Junts gave it fewer seats than it ultimately obtained. And Puigdemont says: "I have no doubt that someone thought the CEO should intervene to boost the chances of some and curb those of others. That said: the polls, all of them, those that go well for you and those that go badly for you, should be taken with great caution, especially if it happens as in this case."

Juntos has long known that it has a way out on the right, and that's why, note that its great pact with the PSOE has been over immigration management.

Be that as it may, there is an undeniable underlying current that favors the Catalan far right, just as it favors it throughout the Western world. And this is bad for the Western world and for Catalonia.

There are thousands of immigrants who want to speak Catalan and can't find places, schedules, or teachers. Is this the fault of the immigrants or the Generalitat? Is Renfe the fault of the immigrants? Is Adif the fault of the immigrants? And this: Catalan family income has been stagnant for 25 yearsHousing has become so expensive that Catalonia can now grow (blue line). The money we have left in our pockets began to decline in 2008, bottomed out in 2013, and is now stagnant. Is that the fault of immigrants?

The opponents of Catalonia's economic and social progress are diverse, but they will be found in a state that thinks of itself as radial and centralized and that takes a disproportionate share of our taxes. This is where the battle must be fought.

Thinking the far right is the solution to something is a sweet poison that always has catastrophic results. The far right has no solutions, only culprits. False culprits.

What about radical imams? We monitor their speeches. But the white, Catholic Catalonia will never be the same as it was 100 years ago. Catalonia has always changed and always prevailed. Why not now? Are we incapable of anything great?

Remember Jordi Pujol, who has observed and written about immigration in Catalonia all his life: Catalonia must ensure that immigration is integrated "from a perspective of respect," and at the same time, the country must be forced to accept that it will never be what it was 50 or 100 years ago. It's clear that a nation like Catalonia, which doesn't have its own state, has a more exposed, more fragile identity and language. Fine, we have to work harder, but without complexes, without fear, without hatred. And without hypocrisy: how many people who say at a Saturday dinner that there are too many immigrants in Catalonia benefit on Monday from being able to hire immigrants at low wages?

I'm done. The driving force of the Catalan Alliance is Sílvia Orriols, because it doesn't matter that she doesn't want to, and Sílvia Orriols's political driving force is hatred. To think that what this party claims is the solution for Catalonia is absurd.

Good morning.