In 2017, Ciutadans rubbed the sky in Catalonia: with 36 deputies, it became the first force in the Parliament and was gaining momentum for the definitive assault on Congress in the 2019 elections. It would be the blow to the repeat election seven months later: the formation went from 57 seats to 10. The party would then fall into a spiral of internal fights and a loss of leadership (with a hostile takeover bid by the PP (including) that have led to the practical disappearance of the institutions. But what has become of the former glories of the orange party?

The contest Atrapa'm si pots is a kind proposal from TV3 for weekend afternoons: a contest of accessible questions asked humorously by Llucià Ferrer. But this Sunday it was at the centre of a new controversy because a twelve-year-old contestant was asked what cereal most traditional Italian pasta was made of and she only knew the answer in Spanish. When she asked if she could say it in Spanish, the presenter reminded her that it was not an option: "Here, that's not an option, because it's a TV3 contest in Catalan and we have to answer in Catalan. I'm very sorry, but I can't accept it". The rules of the contest, to which ARA has had access and which are given to all participants, are unequivocal. "The answers given must be correct and exact, without changes or nuances and in Catalan," they read.

To many it may seem like déjà vu, but the fact is that today the triple right, that is, PP, Cs and Vox, are once again demonstrating together in Plaza Colón in Madrid, as they did on 10 February, 2019 to protest against the talks between the Spanish and Catalan governments. Two and a half years later the same protagonists (with some change because Albert Rivera is no longer there and Inés Arrimadas missed the plane and did not attend then) meet again in the same place to protest against the granting of pardons to Catalan political prisoners that the Spanish government is preparing. And this is because during all this time both the PP and Cs have tried to distance themselves from the extreme right, but at the moment of truth the Catalan issue brings them together again and puts them on the same stage.

The Spanish right is getting ready for a political and judicial war, taking to the streets against the cabinet conceding pardons to Catalan political prisoners, after Pedro Sanchez paved the way despite the Supreme Court's opposition. Although the PP and Ciudadanos were reluctant to take to the streets and wanted the offensive to be mainly institutional, such as the collection of signatures that PP has announced and the motion it will take to regional parliaments and city councils to force the PSOE to show its hand and thus wear it down, in the end they have finally given in. In fact, the pardons are bringing back together the three parties that converged in Plaza Colón in February 2019, portraying a right-wing front against Pedro Sánchez's government at a time of détente with pro-independence parties. It also adds to the rapprochement between Pablo Casado and Inés Arrimadas, who would be trying to rebuild bridges after having met a few days ago at a meal in Madrid to recover the relationship lost after the failed motion of censure in Murcia, as advanced by El Confidencial and ARA has confirmed.

It is not at all clear that Inés Arrimadas was aware of the impact that her pact with the PSOE to dislodge the PP from the main institutions in Murcia would have, but the truth is that the earthquake completely changes the correlation of forces on the Spanish political map. From the outset, the fragile equilibrium that still existed in the party between the moderates (in favour of a rapprochement with the PSOE) and the riveristas has been broken. People like Toni Cantó, who negotiated the Valencian budgets with Ximo Puig following the new guidelines of Arrimadas and now denies them, can become the voice of internal opposition towards the leader of Cs and can make the party implode. Every time Rivera's successor takes a step towards the PSOE in exchange for power or influence, she loses votes on the right. And right now she risks being swept away in Madrid by the media steamroller that Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) and Rocío Monasterio (Vox) have set in motion. Words such as "traitor" or "Judas" were trending topic in the networks in reference to Arrimadas.

The citizens of Madrid have gone to sleep this Wednesday without knowing whether there is an election called for May 4 to elect a new regional Assembly or whether there will be a motion of censure against president Isabel Diaz Ayuso. The legal rigmarole is so great that it will most likely be the justice system who will have to decide, in scenes which up until now were only accustomed to seeing in Catalonia.