Santi Vila
03/13/2019
00:05 Updated to 3/13/2013 1:03 PM
From the
political point of view, after the declaration of Iñigo Urkullu before the
Supreme Court about the events that took place during the agonizing weeks of
the procés, everything has been said.
The Lehendakari made an accurate, concise and truthful intervention on his
intercessory role between the Government of Catalonia and the Government of
Spain, especially during the last weeks of October 2017. Despite the
evasiveness of some and the lies of some other, with his systematic and
rigorous statement, on the one hand it was proved that the intergovernmental
dialogue had existed. On the other hand, if President Puigdemont finally did
not call for elections, it was due to the pressure of social networks and the internal
revolt within the party itself. In fact, from the pages of this newspaper Enric
Juliana already announced at the beginning of this month a justifying watsap
from Puigdemont to Urkullu, written just in those frantic hours of October 26:
"I have a rebellion among our people. I cannot stand". In short, and
to summarize, that the disaster could have been avoided, had it not been for
the suffocating web of cross mistrust that had been woven between the two
governments, at least since the end of 9-N, and the relationship of fratricide
between the two parties that are still governing partners in Catalonia.
To confirm the
solvency of his testimony, it is significant that while Urkullu was declaring
before the court in Madrid, three copies of a material with more than 300
evidentiary documents and his personal notes were deposited in the archives of
the Sabino Arana Foundation of the PNV; in the Historical Archive of Euskadi,
in Bilbao, and in the Arxiu Tarradellas of the Poblet monastery. Faced with
subjective accounts, interested and unprovable, these are facts, documents and
evidence certainly interpretable but ultimately objective and therefore only
refutable with similar counterarguments. As more of a journalist sighed among
the magnolias of the cloister of the Royal Salesas, today headquarters of the
Supreme Court, probably the Lehendakari is the last of the serious politicians
in Spain. How strongly do we miss such a profile, also in Catalonia, exhausted
as we are from so many rhetorical tricks and gestural pyrotechnics.
Certainly, the
Lehendakari Urkullu is, apart from a serious and solvent politician, the last
of our modern politicians. Modern in the sense of enlightened. Illustrated in
the sense of being convinced of the strength of humanism and the use of reason
as a lay moral basis; as indispensable tools to interpret reality correctly and
to transform it in a progressive and intelligible sense for all men and women
of good will, think as they might think. On the other hand, however, surely
even more strongly, seas of postmodern, liquid –as Bauman would have said - insolvency
continue to make their way polluting everything with viscera, frivolity and
relativism. Thus, against the reasons given by Urkullu, attitudes and
sentimental versions that only seek to confuse the mind, excite the worst
emotions and treasure votes, or, poorer, simple clicks of followers and haters
on Twitter, keep alive. Faced with the politics linked to reality and facts, in
short, the stimulating activism of opportunistic gestures persists, lasting as
long as the incandescence of a flare lasts. And the real truth is that of all the
embarrassment that has generated the procés,
in Barcelona and Madrid, surely the little respect for the reality of things is
one of the most indigestible. At the gates of the electoral campaign for the
general and municipal elections, we would do well to demand arguments and
electoral programs again rational and, on the contrary, reject, implacable, any
populist temptation, wherever it comes from, which always will be the seed of
future confrontations and tears.
Still excited
by the pinch of hope of Urkullu's testimony, I ended the week at the Ideal
Cinemas, near Plaza Santa Ana, in Madrid, watching ‘Green’, the best movie of
the year according to the American Film Academy. In one of its sweetest
moments, Lip, the rude protagonist of this romantic story, writes to his wife a
letter that pretends to be impregnated with tenderness: "Dear Dolores,
sometimes you remind me of a house. A house with beautiful lights ..., where
everyone is happy inside". Yes, listening to Lehendakari Urkullu convinced
me that resuming the path of progress is possible, also in Catalonia. You just
have to know how to closely link reality and dream, reason and feeling. And
banish, for ever and ever, the sellers and scroungers of postmodern smoke!
Because as Steven Pinker wrote in ‘In Defense of the Enlightenment’, finally
"the vast majority think that life is preferable to death, health to
disease, food to go hungry, peace to war, freedom to tyranny, equality of
rights to discrimination, knowledge to ignorance, happiness to misery".
The rest are tam-tams of the tribe or of the guru of the moment!
LA VANGUARDIA
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