This week, Junts came across a video from Mr. Esteve's Trump supporters in which Sílvia Orriols appeared beating Puigdemont, or firing a shot, or stepping on his corpse, depending on the version. An unpleasant and ill-timed message, coming from a meeting in Waterloo with the party's municipalist wing (the Junts mayors), which, among other things, concluded that it is necessary to reach government agreements with the Catalan Alliance when appropriate. That those to whom Junts is about to extend its hand as potential partners, those to whom it has already begun sending signals of agreement, should respond with a video in which their leader shoots the president in exile is a bitter pill to swallow.
Or not so much: there has been a more or less official protest from Junts over the tasteless video, and Puigdemont has announced legal action against its authors (hiding in anonymity), but the silence with which the Junts entourage, usually so conspicuous when they feel that the legitimate MHP Puigdemont is being touched, has taken is striking. For much less than that, when someone on the left dares to make even a joke, the hangings of traitors, Lerrouxists, Falangists, and leftists immediately begin. woke Sold in Spain. When the far right humiliates and threatens the president on social media, the brave patriots remain silent and swallow. Curious, to say the least.
The fact is that Junts finds itself between AC's sword and the hard place of the Brussels agreements for which it voted in favor of Sánchez's investiture. Faced with this discomfort, and especially in response to the polls (which say AC is eating away at its electorate as punishment for supporting the Spanish left), Junts is willing to break with the Socialists and the investiture bloc. AC, meanwhile, criticizes them for "Junts' drift to the left," which according to them is what supports Sánchez entails. The "cowardly right"AC is Junts, and Junts reacts to it like the PP reacts to Vox: with overacting and increasingly exaggerated gestures. Now comes the attempt to overthrow Sánchez, the dark object of desire, after threatening to do so a thousand times.
Sánchez won't fall either if Junts doesn't support a motion of no confidence alongside the PP and Vox, something they've ruled out for the moment. However, they won't be able to prevent withdrawing all their support from him from placing them, within Spanish politics, and paradoxically, alongside the Spanish-speaking hard right. Internationally, becoming the architects of the fall of one of Europe's last progressive governments would place Junts in the orbit of the extreme nationalist right. Regarding Catalan politics, a split would leave Junts alongside the Catalan Alliance and its pistol-whipping videos. And what's certain is that it would eliminate any possibility of amnesty for Puigdemont. The worse it is, the better, in reality, often becomes the worse it is. But anyway, if they're so keen, go ahead.
