What We Can vote on Tuesday against the delegation of immigration powers to the Generalitat on the grounds that the Mossos d'Esquadra could carry out racist raids is insulting to the Generalitat as a whole and the Mossos d'Esquadra in particular. The presumption of racism of the entire police force subject to the law of a democratic state is an accusation of an argumentative solidity similar to that of cotton. It would have been as sincere to say that they want to make the Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz government lose votes by pointing out that they have the support of a party, Junts, that is fighting for the votes that the Catalan far-right is snatching from the polls. But this would have been too long, andracism, on the other hand, is ideal for headlines and marking an ideological position in the controversy.
Yes, of course, all power can lead to abuse, but that's why we have laws, courts, and a system of political control that, by the way, in the case of Catalonia, would depend on a left-wing majority in the Parliament at this time. In fact, if any nation in the State contributed decisively to Feijóo's victory eventually becoming a socialist government with the crutch of Sumar, it was Catalonia, which, we don't know for how much longer, resisted the Spanish right like Asterix's Gaul.
Junts and Esquerra saw in this Sánchez government the possibility of leading big fish to the horn of the Generalitat, but, for the moment, most of these fish continue to swim peacefully in the sea of interests and rhythms of the PSOE and the Spanish State. Which is a shame for those who, in the face of the Process's momentum, argued that negotiation and agreement, the classic paradigm for improving self-government, were the most useful path for Catalonia. For the moment, neither is the delegation of immigration.
