What game is Junts playing? After a long tug-of-war with the Socialist government, with modest results, they've suddenly become restless. And the fireworks began. First came the solemn announcement, with Puigdemont's blessing, that they were ending the negotiation phase and supporting the majority governing Spain. Now they're taking it a step further with their catastrophic rhetoric: Miriam Nogueras proclaims, with the expressive tension that characterizes her when she wants to demonstrate indignation, that Junts will veto the fifty or so laws that the Spanish government currently has under consideration in the Valencian Parliament. Probably because they've realized that the first threat was going unnoticed, as if the idea wasn't quite credible. Could anyone have imagined that Junts would pave the way for the newly consolidated PP-Vox alliance?
This debacle coincides with Feijóo's decision to take the definitive step towards the far right, entering directly into a coalition, even though it may seem suicidal because it places the PP in the hands of a rising Vox party that has much to gain and little to lose. What does Junts intend to do? Should we understand that it is joining the ranks of European right-wing parties that are gradually legitimizing neo-fascism? If Junts and the PP could form a coalition on their own, we could understand that their proximity on economic matters might temporarily offset their differences in their vision of the State, but knowing that they depend on Vox, the whole thing becomes pathetic. And ultimately, it's simply an expression of one reality: Junts' difficulty in adapting to the current phase of Catalan politics, with the demobilization of a portion of the pro-independence vote that it once capitalized on.
The line between doing politics and playing at politics is very thin, and it's bad when it becomes blurred, because it can be a sign of losing touch with reality. Junts is showing a bad symptom, which is perhaps what has sparked this anxiety to make itself noticed: its noise, which was once effective, now, after the bewilderment of the unfinished Process, often falls flat. The lack of results from its tentative approach seems to be starting to wear people down. And Junts is struggling to find a way to remain a decisive force in the current situation. And yet, the threat has limited guarantees of success when your interlocutor knows you have little to gain on the other side, where the PP depends on Vox and can't offer you anything. Junts is entering the theater of the absurd. If it were to bring down Sánchez, who would capitalize on it?
