Antoni Bassas' analysis: "Very mobile and few commuter trains"

A note on a very important issue that is not in the spotlight these days: the PSOE-Junts negotiations for the transfer of immigration powers to the Generalitat. One of the negotiators says that the situation is in such a way that it can be stuck for days or weeks or develop in a hasty manner, because they are in the thick of things. In fact, it has been stuck for days: the agreement was planned around Christmas, more than two months ago.

Meanwhile, This morning it started in Barcelona a global event, that of technology, the Mobile Telephony Congress, which has brought together one hundred thousand congressmen and women in the metropolitan area.

Politically, this morning serves to reinforce the narrative that Catalonia is normalized, now that it is presided over by A socialist who goes to greet the king at the door. In any case, the world's leading technology companies are in Barcelona, ​​​​one more year.

This mix of technology and international prestige contrasts with the image of an abandoned country of their governments that continues to provide the service (poor service, specifically) of Cercanías.

This weekend The service has failed again on the R-2 South. And what happened this weekend (and today) is very serious, because the official reason for the problems is the construction works on the Mediterranean corridor. Well, if it is not an unforeseen event, if you yourself know when the disruption will begin and end, it is unforgivable that you did not have a solution planned and that people were not well informed and the bus drivers did not know where they had to go. Because, in addition, it turns out that the drivers, who do not want to depend on the Generalitat and are against the transfer, say that the fault lies with the company for not having planned the needs in advance. Result, five hours to go from Reus to Barcelona, ​​people confused by the platforms, today people getting up at five to enter Barcelona and arrive at work on time and that feeling of dirt given off by the painted wagons, which show that Cercanías does not know how to safely guard the material that we all buy from it. President Illa, we are not sorry to hear you defend the right of Catalans to use public transport worthy of the taxes they pay.

And if that were not enough, Ayuso, this political machine of fabricating lies and hatred, President Díaz Ayuso.

"It is time to turn off the tap on the corrupt business of nationalism, which has been whining for decades with the money of all Spaniards. give me something, give me something, But if you are spending everything on embassies, on black holes, you are giving everything to the Catalan class, which is suffocated by taxes and bureaucracy. No, things have gone better in Catalonia the more autonomy and money the Spaniards have had, not the other way around."

It's the other way around, a very important part of Spain's money leaves Catalonia and doesn't come back. That's why we have the trains the way we have them. As it says in Xavier Bosch on today's back cover"Ayuso, with inflated ambition and pathological cynicism, doesn't care if what she says is true, she doesn't give a damn if it creates bad feelings among people of her same state and, if it suits her, she hides the fact that the rest of the autonomous regions are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return. There will be the 600,000 people who voted for PP or Vox in the elections that the PSC won."

Here, hatred is normalized.

Good morning.