Do we need to be told any clearer? Trump's referent in Spain is Vox. Amid threats of cheating, mile-long lies and displays of chainsaws, the person whom the President of the United States greeted by name during the sinister festival of the world's far right gathered in Washington was Abascal. Just like Trump, Vance and Musk's referent in Germany is Alternative for Germany, the xenophobic party that one in five German voters voted for yesterday.
In an impeccable analysis immediately after the results of the first polls were known, TV3 correspondent in Berlin, Oriol Serra, noted that the historic increase in participation that there was this Sunday also shows that Germans who did not want the extreme right mobilized. He spoke of Germany not working as a source of social unrest and of trains as a metaphor for a country that has stopped working like a clock since the moment when investment in maintenance fell and the railway service began to be increasingly unpunctual.
In Catalonia, in this quarter of a century we have gone from 6 to 8 million inhabitants. It is impossible for healthcare to not make us wait, for quality education in Catalan to reach everyone, for universities to be cutting edge or for infrastructure to avoid the daily collapse of mobility if we are not financed according to our fiscal effort and needs that have multiplied in a short time. Let the Government note this when negotiating financing: when a country works, it removes the temptation of fascism. The lies of hatred cannot be given even the slightest excuse.
