Sánchez's appearance to take stock of the year was exactly as we had predicted: he will hold on.

In the first session of the course in Parliament, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, made a recommendation to Vox: that they read the work of the writer Paco Candel. Breaking all the taboos of his time, the author ofThe other Catalans (1964) gave voice to the immigrants who had arrived in Catalonia during the post-war period, explaining how they lived (often in slums and very precarious conditions) and how they understood their identity. This is not the first time that Illa has mentioned the figure of the Valencian-born writer, but he has not been the only one to do so in recent weeks. In the wake of the celebration of the Candel Year, which commemorates the centenary of his birth, Comuns has also revived him in an attempt to overturn the framework in which the far right is framing the immigration debate. in Catalonia of eight million.

The commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Paco Candel's birth seems to have caught the country off guard. Candel, his social thought, and his literary work don't quite fit in a time of partisan mistrust and hyper-political correctness. It's true that there are still days left to celebrate a Candel Year, which, significantly, the government hasn't made official. But if almost no one disputes the figure's relevance, it's not generating the enthusiasm one might expect.

A hundred years ago Francisco Candel (1925-2007) was born in Cases Altes, a Spanish-speaking region of Valencia. Two years later, he was living in one of the earth-planked shacks at the foot of Montjuïc. The family eventually moved to the Casas Baratas de Can Tunis, there. Where the city changes its number (1957), and later in the Navy, the place where the journalist, writer, and politician developed his life and work. Candel was a child of the first wave of migration and chronicled the second. The other Catalans (Edicions 62) was his most notable book – an unprecedented publishing success in 1964, with 30,000 copies sold in just a few weeks – and over the years it has become almost mythologized as a symbol of "Catalonia, one people", which would drive the PSUC, and later become a motto.