They will take our earpiece

The election campaign is the same news cycle as before but with posters, envelopes from each party in mailboxes with ballots –because they can't even agree on that– and electoral slots on public channels as if we were still in the Pleistocene of Suárez with “Libertad sin ira” and had not entered the era of the algorithm, the podcast, the youtuber and the AI vote recommender.

We are also where we were in 2023, when the unfailing author of Manual de resistencia had the audacity to call an election in July, lose it, and, for the first time in history, end up governing thanks to the unexpected prominence of Puigdemont (whom he was supposed to bring in under arrest), a moment that turned the election night count into a Greek tragedy on Hispanic right-wing and left-wing channels.

With the exception of the amnesty, our problems remain the same, and derive from the lack of political power, which this legislature has reached the Celtiberian grotesque of the new financing for Catalonia, which could not be approved because there were elections in Andalusia and it was not a matter of upsetting the socialist candidate.

And since everything is capable of getting worse (except Rodalies), if the polls don't fail, it will happen to us like in that episode of the New Testament, where they will even take away the little we have, that is, an earpiece, the one that served to be able to speak in Catalan in Congress so that those great polyglots that are their lordships could understand a Latin language, but which is seen as an intolerable affront to their honor. In other words, in relation to Spain, one day it rains and the next it hails. These elections are so exciting.