The Government says enough to avoid being caught out by the commuter rail system.

BarcelonaGood words, the creation of working groups, and close collaboration with the central government. This recipe hasn't worked for the Spanish government, and after a week of chaos on the commuter rail network, it has said enough is enough. In just a few hours, the Catalan government has gone from appearing alongside the Spanish government announcing the resumption of service to going it alone to demand the immediate dismissal of the two companies that truly control the trains in Catalonia, Renfe and Adif.

Another day of "intolerable" chaos, as the Minister of Territory, Silvia Paneque, repeatedly stated this afternoon, has completely reversed the government's strategy, which until now had never sought confrontation with Madrid. A controlled confrontation, it must be said, because only a few minutes passed before that the two dismissals desired by the Generalitat have been announced, demonstrating that they had been agreed upon between governments.

In the last week it has become clear that the Generalitat has no control over Cercanías (commuter rail), despite being the owner of the service, but until now it had not clearly distanced itself from the management of the operators. Paneque, in fact, He is a target of the opposition precisely because of the lack of forcefulness in defending, as he has done today, that Cercanías "is not up to par".