For decades now, people from Esquerra and Junts, formerly Convergència, have been saying the same thing publicly called Rufián and Dalmases in private. Not everyone, of course, but the resentment some feel toward the classist distance of others is at least as old as Catalan politics since 1977.
The ambition to be the straw man for the "strict Catalan obedience" vote, the 23 years of Pujol, the tripartite coalitions, the Trial, the prisons, the exiles, and now the pacts with the PSOE, squared by the number of social networks, has turned the competition between the two parties into a spectacle that can only stimulate their respective parties.
Politics already has this, and everywhere. Just look at how brutal the power struggles within each party are. But this discord is especially bitter for thousands of people, because Esquerra and Junts have been more than just two parties when the streets were "always ours" and no one asked the protester next to them which party they voted for. Then, with the invaluable help of the CUP (United Left of Catalonia), neither of them was able to provide any benefit to the pro-independence majority in the Parliament, and they were even incapable of governing in coalition.
Of course, each party is the owner of its own strategies. From the outside, however, one would say that both ERC and Junts are subjected to the same contempt from the PSOE, and that where one stumbles on immigration or the Catalan language in Europe, the other will stumble on commuter rail or special financing. Therefore, this confrontation will not only fail to bring them closer to politics, but Isla will remain president for several years.
