1. The week of the forgiveness of part of the debt of the autonomous communities has ended with a final flourish. The president of Madrid, in a cover interview in The World This Sunday, left this headline: "Now we have to assume the Catalan debt, they treat us like idiotsIsabel Díaz Ayuso knows what the issue is that angers part of the citizenry, scares her followers and, at the end of the day, gives votes to the Popular Party. It is her version of "Catalonia is robbing us." and a pathological cynicism, she is given that what she says is true, she does not give a damn that it generates bad feelings among people of the same state and, if it suits her, she hides that the rest of the autonomous communities are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return and that only in interest, was a bloody one for each community. gone again this week, the end justifies the means. But she knows badly that, in this perverse syllogism, it does not matter Catalonia. dead, that the independence movement is no longer the majority in the Parliament and that Catalan is only the habitual language of a third of the citizens. They have already won, but they like to fatten themselves. Cane in "The CatalansAgainst Junqueras and Puigdemont it is no longer enough.
2. All this politics has a media branch, of a devoted and absolute complicity, which is a powerful weapon of mass influence. It is not surprising, but it is discouraging to note that, beyond the interested politics of the Spanish right, so many media that think, write and speak from Madrid join in that pim-pam-pum that spreads hatred. The derogatory way in which "The Catalans" is devastating. It is no longer the equivalence of "independence" equals "terrorist". Now, with the malevolent synecdoche of "The Catalans" is already included despite the cliché, it is radicalized and becomes chronic. Journalistic irresponsibility has no limits. Deontology has been drowned by ideology. And the use they make of the term is so absurd that within "The CatalansThere will also be the 598,000 people who voted for PP or Vox in the elections that the PSC won. In their tangle that makes for a strong argument, there are no longer any distinctions.
3. Francesc-Marc Álvaro, a fellow student and one of the friends I have made in journalism, said it wisely from the podium of Congress. Now as a deputy for Esquerra, he stressed that Núñez Feijóo, former president of Galicia, demands that the regional presidents of the PP reject money for their people because Catalonia has asked for it. He said: "How funny what has happened in the recent history of Spain. For a time, if Catalonia asked for something, everyone wanted it."What Catalonia is asking for». Now we have turned the tables and now it is about saying «If Catalonia asks for it, let no one have it». The paradox, certainly, would make one laugh rather than cry. The hypocrisy was consummated when the representatives of the autonomous communities that the PP rules left, en masse, the meeting of the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy. They made a show of it but, at the same time, they benefited from this debt forgiveness for a total of 83,252 million. They acted aggrieved but took advantage of the measure, like everyone else. Of course, they brandished a textbook justification everywhere. They had left the table "so as not to be complicit in the permanent concessions to the independence movement," as the Andalusian economics minister, Carolina España, said. There are surnames that determine destiny.
