On October 25, 2017, four representatives of the Catalan business community visited the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu to try to get him to convince the president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, of calling elections and not proclaiming the independence of Catalonia. They were: Marian Puig, president of laboratories ISDIN, participated by the perfume and fashion group Puig; the naval engineer Joaquim Coello, then president of the Carulla Foundation; lawyer Emilio Cuatrecasas, and the notary and vice president of Caixa Foundation, Juan Josà © López Burniol. It was the last act, already desperate, of the Catalan business establishment to avoid the worst nightmare. They did not succeed. The monster they helped create, directly or indirectly through silence, thinking they would eventually tame it at the last minute, had slipped out of hand. It was too late when they realized. Once again, the appeal for dialogue had failed.The Catalan Parliament declared independence. A blow to the State and to the law in every rule that forced it to react immediately. Declaration of article 155 of the Constitution, intervention of the community and declaration of new elections for December 21, 2017. Won Citizens, withIn Ar © Arrimadas at the head, but the independence movement returned to add. The presidency of the Generalitat was accepted by a forgettable man named Quim Torra. From Waterloo, the escaped Puigdemont and, from the Lledoners prison, the imprisoned politician OriolJunqueras they have continued to pull the strings of the movement. They do not give up their objective, although the forms are different and their puppets different. They want to go back to their old ways.
Almost three and a half years after the events of October 2017, Catalonia will return to the polls without a clear forecast. The PSC wants to succeed C’s as the most voted party, with Salvador Illa, the former minister of the pandemic, as a candidate. C’s, PP Y Vox they fight among themselves for being the fourth party of the Parliament, with the permission of the Comuns, the Catalan franchise of Podemos.
“We are no better than three and a half years ago”, confesses – “do not quote me” – one of the four people who visited Urkullu. Among the lifelong Barcelona bourgeoisie, which yearns to turn the page, it worries, and a lot, that the independence movement will add again. For this reason, even before the elections, the verb dialogue is conjugated. “Faced with dialogue, there is only strength, the use of the stomach instead of the brain. There is no other choice but to speak,” they say, almost assuming that the independence movement will once again add a majority and that they will unite again even if they hate each other. The challenge for ERC and JxCAT, after all, is the same.
In Catalonia, five years have been lost. The misrule has been absolute. Only the vitality of a society that has known how to move in parallel with the political madness, has managed to stay afloat. Barcelona is a city that has suffered three inclement events: Ada Colau’s populism, independence movement and now the pandemic, which has destroyed the tourism sector. But there is an underlying asset that remains; but that, depending on new events, can generate more uneasiness. There is no room for more mistakes or more silences. This week in Economic News We wanted to get closer to the Catalan business community, to some of the most significant representatives of its civil society, starting with the president of the Economy Circle, Javier Faus. We seek your answers and doubts regarding what may happen the day after tomorrow. In the past, some have flirted with the pro-independence bet, apologizing for their disgust with how Spain was managed. The future? They appeal for a Government of the Generalitat to flee from unilateralism, that thinks about the management, that dialogue and execute a program of progress. Rebuilding Catalonia is the only option. Hopefully, no one will ever be fooled again.
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