Ada Colau already has someone to accompany her on her adventure in Madrid. The Comuns have validated the lists for the general elections, which hid a last-minute surprise: Aina Vidal, the current deputy spokesperson for Sumar in Congress, has been excluded. This Wednesday's national council was not exactly smooth sailing, with several voices dissenting from this decision, which also provoked a significant protest vote. The lists for the four Catalan constituencies were approved with 66% of votes in favor, but with 34% against and 20 blank votes. Vidal was the head of the Comuns list in the 2023 elections.

On Friday, Els matins on TV3 paid attention to the debate and the vote on the housing decrees in Congress. Ariadna Oltra interviewed representatives from different political parties to analyze the consequences of the standoff between the Spanish government and Junts. A tense countdown with a lot of political and popular tension. One of the connections to Madrid was with the Comuns spokesperson Aina Vidal. The deputy was wearing a very bright yellow t-shirt with a printed legend that said, in huge capital letters, "Catalonia is not CiU". "There are slogans that unfortunately do not go out of style," Vidal noted sarcastically when Oltra asked her to clearly show what the slogan said. This staging for the media was already an indicator of the virulence of the day in Congress and the climate of hostility between parties.

Only bad faith or utter ignorance could give credence to Vox and its proposal to ban the burka and niqab in public spaces. They speak of "our culture" as if theirs were everyone's. Their stale patriotism, their Francoist nostalgia, their radical misogyny, and their freedom-crushing attitude are certainly not "our culture." But what's surprising isn't Vox's racism, but the ineptitude of a left wing that doesn't seem to see these things coming, and out of laziness, mediocrity, or cowardice, allows certain thorny issues to fester until they erupt in controversies like the one we're seeing these days.