Politics has become “above all the art of humiliation.” Archive classic definitions of “politics as a science concerned with the management and organization of human societies.” Hamas terrorists humiliated the arrogant Israeli secret services and their technological superiority by skillfully bypassing every security obstacle to cross the border and committing a heinous crime. One thousand four hundred people were killed and two hundred people were kidnapped. On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the leader of the massacre that claimed the lives of 8 thousand people, half of them children, humiliates the United Nations and the world, which asked him for a ceasefire. And this humiliates Secretary of State Blinken, who flew from Washington to Jerusalem again to plead for “humanitarian pauses” in his offensive; In response, they are again bombing hospitals and ambulances with new massacres.
“Puigdemont intends to humiliate the State,” says La Mancha president García Page. “A negotiator has the capacity to allow himself to be humiliated… because it befits his dignity,” he adds. However, he warns: “Someone here will end up as a botifler (traitor in Catalan). “It’s either one or the other.” So it’s either Pedro Sánchez or former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Brussels six years ago.
The presidential investment to prevent a repeat of elections in Spain is quite complicated because Puigdemont has seven committed MPs and wants to humiliate Pedro Sánchez, whom he does not trust. Six years of self-exile led to revenge. Compare the aging Puigdemont’s face a few months ago and the smile he now displays during photo walks in the European Parliament.
The leaders of Esquerra Republicana join in this humiliation and promise that a “referendum on self-determination” will take place after the Spanish Government eliminates all conditions it finds unsatisfactory. Oriol Junqueras and Pere Aragonés are competing to challenge the state because they are fighting Carles Puigdemont to be the most pro-independence; but also between them, because the amnesty will return Junqueras to candidate status and Aragonés will have to leave the Presidency of the Generalitat. Of course, if they win again.
Meanwhile, the Spanish right is also celebrating this humiliation because it opens up space for new electoral advances against those who want to give Pedro Sánchez a chance but are already disturbed or depressed by this spectacle. And it’s not just former president Felipe González who stands out in this growing group.
The clock is ticking and November 27 is the limit. The Congress, chaired by socialist Francina Armengol, allowed Saturdays and Sundays as working days to celebrate the appointment, if necessary. The Senate, with its absolute popular majority, is changing regulations to block a future Amnesty Bill that is at the heart of the deal between socialists and independentists. The National Court is filing a lawsuit against CDR (Committees for the Defense of the Republic) activists who will be subject to amnesty measures. Five years later, the Civil Guard is now presenting its report on the Democratic Tsunami responsible for the unrest in Catalonia, and at the head of this report is Marta Rovira, the number two of the Esquerra Republicans who was exiled to Switzerland.
Puigdemont will push the limit by crucifying Sánchez. But be careful, Pablo Iglesias, the founder of Podemos, is also waiting for his turn later with the same desire for revenge, only to be appeased by the reappointment of the indescribable Irene Montero, the mother of his three children, as minister. This is no longer politics. A docudrama of interests, grudges and revenge.