With Salvador Illa we have a problem | Opinion

The first biopic About Jordi Pujol It is titled Parenchy and will premiere in a few weeks. The main plot of the film is the controversy of the patriarch, his wife and three of his children about what was the best defense strategy to face the journalistic revelation of his bank secret: The accounts that the family had in Andorra. But there are several Flashbacks To underline what were the key moments of the biography of the President. One of them is secondary in the script, but politically it was capital. In 1993, Felipe González who ruled with the parliamentary support of CiU offered Miquel Roca to enter the Council of Ministers. In the film, Roca and Pujol discuss it in an office. « The answer is that no, » concludes the pujol that interprets a Josep María Pou monumental. The reasons for that not repeated for 20 years were multiple, but a consequence is clear: Catalan nationalism refrained from acting from the Spanish Real Decision Centers and prioritized to use its influence to obtain transfers and act as lobby. Probably, because Pujol’s aspiration was trying to build that power from the Generalitat; But in the long run, already in 1996, that strategy has been one of the Catalan unpacking factors.

During the last decades The regional economic weight He has not had a correlation in his presence in the power nuclei linked to the State. The finding of this political dysfunction, and the will to reverse it, is part of the implicit government program of Salvador Illa. It was clear at the conference, solemn and tarradellismo 2.0 scenery, that on Thursday he spoke in the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid. Was A demonstration of soft power that has decided to exercise and the type of Spanish projection that is playing and is already recognized. The most cunning policy of Spain – I mean, obviously, Isabel Díaz Ayuso – is aware of the implications of the alternative that represents the Catalan project of Illa. On Thursday, the president of the community did not miss the opportunity to make cane nationalism in the assembly when she encouraged the low passions when referring to the cast of the poor immigrants and at the same time charged against the assistance of Sánchez government ministers to the conference of the President of the Generalitat.

But as significant as that presence or that of the presidents of the BBVA, Aena, Enagás or Repsol, it was that of old socialist rockers: Solana, Aranzadi or Solchaga. There is a thread of continuity between the praxis of Illa and those veterans of the best felipism that acted in their day according to the parameters of liberal socialism: the awareness that without the increase in productivity there can be no « shared prosperity » (to say it with the fetish expression of the conference). In this idea is the main and today unique real counterpoint to ayusism. For the unexpected competition that it raises in the Aznarist matrix power block, but above all for something that is associated with that OPA: the society model that can be built through politics and that needs the recovery of economic weight. There are no magical formulas to share prosperity. The really existing mechanism are taxes, Global battlefield of democratic regression and only efficient guarantee of social cohesion. Only an appointment: « We are very clear that fair taxation, strong public services and an accessible housing are essential for long -term economic dynamism. For a simple reason: an unequal society is not economically competitive in the long term. » With Salvador Illa, said with other words, we have a problem.