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Oh, the slings and arrows of politics! Suddenly, your party loses, your personal star falls, your protector disappears from the map and nobody wants to know anything about you. This has happened over the last few months to Enric Millo, who discovered there was no place for him in any electoral list for his political group, the Popular Party. As the Spanish government's delegate in Catalonia, he was the Viceroy Almighty under deputy PM Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, but has had a hard row to hoe under the PP of Pablo Casado, despite the services rendered on that awful October 1st when a thousand people needed medical assistance as a result of police violence.

The role to which Millo has now been relocated is pure sui generis and gets right to the nub: he is to be the new foreign action secretary for the government of Andalusia. All that bad-mouthing of the Catalan embassies and defining them as dodgy outfits promoting the independence movement and, before you know it, on your new calling card you are listed as the coordinator of the dodgy outfits promoting Andalusia. It could have been anything else, but the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno - who, let's not forget, came to office through an accord between Vox, the PP and Ciudadanos - almost seems to have done it deliberately. A coalition government between PP and Cs, with a Catalan in charge of the embassies. It is even slightly comic.

Following the political trouncing of the PP, Millo will take refuge in Andalusia. His party has not only lost its bearings throughout Spain but has sunk completely below the waves in the Basque Country and Catalonia. Zero deputies and senators in the Basque Country and just one deputy in Catalonia out of 48. Tough times are ahead. And moreover, that single Catalan seat is occupied by someone from outside the party organization, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, the Marchioness of Casa Fuerte, who knows very little about the reality of Catalonia. It is not that there was any problem during the campaign or now because she can't speak Catalan, but rather it signifies that the party is hitching its wagon to a linguistic war that only a minority is interested in waging, something which Madrid doesn't want to understand.

Even García Albiol, who has been everything for the PP, is shying away from the party acronym in his battle to recover the mayoralty of Badalona. The PP hold the most difficult piece in the political puzzle right now. And their problems may have only just begun.