When Inés Arrimadas decided to move to Madrid and abandon her partners at the Catalan Parliament, it was clear enough that it would not be long for one of the embarrassing episodes she had us used to in Barcelona to happen again. It was, in fact, on Saturday, while celebrating LGBTQ Pride parade which she had to leave, because one cannot have one's cake and eat it. It is naive to think that making agreements with homophobes and being caught in photos with ultra rights is going to go unnoticed and you will be applauded regardless all of that if you attend a mass rally like the one held in the streets of Madrid.
So many years of lies about Catalonia among the clapping and good wishes of a significant part of the Spanish politicians and media who up to now have allowed more than one of her blunders. Some, more than one, without even realising that there is nothing left for Ciudadanos' survival aside from the oxygen that provocation and hate are for them. They need exasperation and confrontation and any clashes to be had. Today, they are accusing LGTBQ groups of being fascists, as they did before with the pro-independence movement, Alsasua's inhabitants, Puigdemont, Torra... All of them but those who really are and she avoids calling them by their name. Always within the frame of fracture as a political referent.
Her faux pas asking for minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska's resignation is in line with what she has been doing in the Catalan Parliament. And so, she asks for his resignation, calling him reckless for nurturing hate towards Ciudadanos. The same she was saying to Puigdemont, Torra or the various Catalan government's cabinet ministers. She defines Marlaska "as a Sanchist version of Torra" and accuses him of "making them the target in the parade". The news archives are full of similar scorns of hers aimed at the pro-independence leaders.
By the way, Arrimadas never had to abandon a mass rally in Catalonia. Could it be, then, that the tension and social fracture are greater in Madrid?