Spanish nationalism, which exists
and is transversal, and which is as legitimate a feeling as any other, is
copying step by step the strategy of the 'procés'
No matter how
hard we try, and be sure that I try every day, it is impossible to escape the explosive cyclogenesis
that Spanish politics has become. The resounding derailment
of the proposal to place a
rapporteur in the negotiations on Catalonia is at the moment the last chapter.
But, in line with this explosive cyclogenesis, wanted to refer to the next Sunday
demonstration in Madrid against Pedro Sanchez as a big storm, because there will be lightning and thunder
everywhere, and just as by now the storms are known by specific names, I think
we could baptize that call for demonstration with a very significant name: 'counter-procés'. The 'counter-procés', in case there was any doubt, is
already a reality in Spain. Do you
want a very curious detail? Since 2014, in all the independence demonstrations
in Catalonia, the motto has been: 'Fill
the streets to fill the ballot boxes’.
The article
that this Friday publishes Pablo Casado in the newspaper 'El Mundo' is
entitled: "Fill the squares to fill the ballot boxes". Someone might say: coincidence? No.
Spanish nationalism, which exists and is transversal, and which is a feeling as
legitimate as any other, is copying step by step the strategy of the 'procés'.
Banners on the balconies, emotional appeals, appeals to the common homeland,
demonstrations on the streets, general mobilizations; and those who do not
agree with this will immediately be treated as "traitors, not patriots,
felons ..." Exactly the same thing that the independence movement in
Catalonia has done in recent years; only with some linguistic nuance: in
Catalonia the traitor, the not patriot is also called 'botifler'.
However, ¡watch
out, very important!, this 'counter-procés'
covers a huge space. Toni Martinez describes it splendidly in the 'Huffington
Post': "This story -he says- is not of Vox, neither of the PP, nor of
Rivera, nor of the old guard of the PSOE, nor of the pro-Spain sectors of Podemos,
nor of the socialist barons, neither of the King, nor of the powers of the
State, nor of the mass media, nor of the taxi drivers, nor of the pub
conversations; it belongs to no one and belongs to everyone”. Because that
story arises from the fact that the Constitution of 78 was drafted at a time
when screaming "Spain" was
embarrassing because it was associated with the Franco regime. Therefore it
was a hung up Spain which remained. And, on the contrary, it was a moment of
sympathy towards the peripheral and progressive nationalisms.
But some of
these nationalisms did go too far;
we must punish those responsible for this disloyalty and redistribute the cards
of 1978. This would be a little bit of a summary, and I am convinced that this
discourse, this idea -with all the nuances if you want- is subscribed to by the
right, left, through the center, from north to south and from east to west all
over Spain. But there is something else, and I want to say it: just as in the Catalan sovereignty drift there
were too many people, for too long a time, who kept silent for fear of the
hegemonic discourse of independence, now I also find clamorous the lack of
reply or alternative to this tsunami, which might end not with independence but with less self-government. In
short: 'procés' and 'counter-procés'. May god catch confessed those trapped in the middle - we are quite a
few -.
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/opinion/20190208/articulo-opinion-carles-francino-el-contraproces-conflicto-catalan-nacionalismo-espanol-pablo-casado-7294138
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