I thought I would never see anything like it again. And yet, here it is. In many respects, the ayusism is almost indistinguishable from pujolism. Impunity, impudence, family businesses with public money, tax fraud, the clientelistic network, submissive justice, the media that makes waves and citizens convinced that this is the natural state of things: here it is again .
There are differences, of course. Jordi Pujol was, and is, a cultured man who spent time in Franco’s prisons and accumulated extensive political experience. Isabel Díaz Ayuso exhibits formidable ignorance, she had her Falangist moment and ran the social networks of a dog. Pujol was founder and leader of a Catalan nationalist party. Díaz Ayuso heads the most nationalist sector of the Spanish Popular Party. Madrid is not Barcelona either: it concentrates the great institutions of the State, which allows whoever rules in Madrid (in the sense that the Spanish capital is sometimes given in Catalonia: a concept of abstract power that is superimposed on the city) to extend its influence far beyond the autonomous border.
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