In the next hours, a thousand institutional posts, the vast majority being the 948 mayors of Catalonia, will receive a serious warning from the Spanish government to not collaborate with the referendum summoned by the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, on 1st October. Spain's Public Prosecutor has decided to instigate criminal lawsuits against all members of the government for having signed the decree to call the referendum, and another criminal charge against the five members of the Board of the Catalan Parliament — the president, vice president and three secretaries — who allowed the vote of the Law of the Referendum on Wednesday. The Constitutional Court suspends in less than 24 hours the call and the Law of the Referendum, and in the next hours will make the same with the Law of Transitional Jurisprudence and Foundation of the Republic. A Civil Guard vehicle remains in Constantí, for over 36 hours ago, in front of a printing company and at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, to check if ballot papers are being printed there, and searching the cars of the workers as they leave. And we could go on.
This has been the response of the Spanish state without examining the tsunami that has been put in gear in Catalonia. It is possible that the whole of the Catalan Executive will remain without its responsibilities in the coming months due to ordinary court decisions, if the Constitutional Court does not agree and ends up suspending them beforehand, but really this is of little importance to them for the evolution of the process of independence of Catalonia. President Puigdemont has announced that over 500 mayors have already put in writing their disposal, and have informed him that they will facilitate their schools for the vote on 1st October, and in doing so have not only joined the referendum project but are also in contempt of the state. Will criminal lawsuits be presented against most of Catalonia's mayors and disqualification be enforced? How will they stop the vote? By the way: is the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, conscious that her great objective of one day occupying the post of Pablo Iglesias will not be possible if she ends up aligning with PP (Popular Party) and Ciutadans (Citizens), and the mayor's office will not last out 2019?
Has anyone stopped to think that behind the current Catalan government there will be another obliged to defend the same, and that things no longer happen as before, and that the current situation will not be resolved in an office, nor by the agreement of four gentlemen who do not dedicate themselves to politics? The reiteration of an immobile speech does not turn it into a progressive speech. In the same way that repeating a coup d'état is occurring in Catalonia is a phrase for internal consumption that keeps the militants and those very convinced happy. Do they really believe what they say? Who are they talking to? With foreign correspondents or with embassies, certainly not.
And regarding the debate of these two last days in the Catalan Parliament, there are already enough lies. The alteration of ordinary parliamentary mechanics is certainly not a coincidence. What is indefensible, however much emphasis they place on it, is he who denies the debate wants to stand up in defence of freedom; that those who practice parliamentary filibustering and provoke an uprising of the first order end up complaining that the plenary is everything but a normal Parliament; that those who did not want to take part in commissions claim that before there has not been debate. Has independentism had any other option if it did not want to renounce the celebration of the referendum? Has someone from here or there wanted to sit at a table to agree on a referendum beyond the majority of secessionists and some public positioning of Podemos (We Can)?
The reality is that nobody has. Everything has remained in the hands of the justice, but the justice is not good for everything. Or does anyone think it is?