Sánchez and Catalonia, quite a bit more than 2%

That Pedro Sánchez is the smartest in the class and gives Alberto Núñez Feijóo fifty communicative turns (as is being seen these days every time the PP leader opens his mouth at the scene of the fire) does not mean that the tricks of the dialectical sleight of hand he practices are not visible from three hours away. In the political year review that he presented today, Sánchez recalled that in 2018, when he arrived at Moncloa, 40% of Catalans stated that one of their main problems was the relationship between Catalonia and the general state administration, and that, on the other hand, today, this percentage is only 2%.

We already know the survey trick. In 2018, the trial of the Procés had not even begun, and the existential anguish of that moment is incomparable to anything. And, therefore, if he really wants to know whether Catalans continue to have a problem with the state administration or not, let him go every morning to the Renfe platforms and ask passengers about the commuter service or the Adif works, to see if the discontented are only 2%. Or let him ask drivers what they think about AP-7 traffic or the containers that have to go by highway because they cannot go through a Mediterranean Corridor that is still not finished. Or what do we think about the State only investing 8.6% of the total in Catalonia. You will see how appreciated the action of his government is in Catalonia.

Perhaps the amnesty law will end up being applied before the end of the year, but precisely now that the emotional intensity has decreased, it is perceived more clearly that the material reasons that drove the Procés are still very much alive, because the State continues to be far from adequately responding to the needs of Catalan society.