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It is becoming more and more astonishing to observe the sanctimoniousness of a certain Spanish political class which believes it can get the public to swallow anything. We are seeing it as a result of Vox's emergence onto the political stage. This political class marched together with Vox at the unionist demonstrations in Barcelona, ​​they felt comfortable with the anti-independence civil group SCC and they applauded the imposition of article 155, the suppression of Catalan self-rule and the imprisonment of its government and independence movement leaders. There, in that Spain which without blushing reached back to adopt behaviours more typical of the Franco regime, and still without blushing sang "Go get 'em" to encourage those who would then make use of disproportionate violence against Catalan society; there, that's where the Vox phenomenon took root.

Today everything is Vox. In the opinion surveys, in the debates, in the party meetings, in the configuration of governments like that of Andalusia. And their proposals are abhorrent, of course. The latest is their refusal to back a right-wing coalition government between the Popular Party (PP) and Ciudadanos (Cs) in Andalusia if these two parties don't withdraw their commitment to implement, with the corresponding budget allocations, all measures of the law on comprehensive prevention and protection against gender violence. We need to oppose this outrage without any ambiguity. I will say that as many times as necessary. But it's PP and Cs who are whitewashing Vox's policies, and it was the Spanish and Catalan Socialists (PSOE and PSC, respectively) who showed not a bit of revulsion towards Vox in the demonstrations against the Catalan independence movement. And now Vox will conduct a private prosecution in the referendum trial and the party's secretary general, Javier Ortega, who is also the party's lawyer, will most likely be their candidate for the mayoralty of Barcelona. He'll steal a good part of the media limelight from the others. And Cs, lost with its candidate Manuel Valls, who has yet obtain liftoff, and the PP, with a candidate who seems to be a tribute to freakishness.

And in the middle of all this, I read that Miquel Iceta (PSC) is demanding that we avoid making the extreme right decisive and letting it hold the key to the institutions. His party had to be expelled from the Andalusian government before they asked for help and woke up to what had happened. And before polls appeared giving a majority in a Spanish general election to the sum of PP, Cs and Vox. There were even those who thought that a little Francoism would not go amiss and who claimed that Catalonia needed to be disinfected. And that it was of no importance if Catalunya Ràdio was violently attacked or if the far right was free to act as it wished on the streets of Catalonia, as this would frighten the independence supporters. They didn't take into account that playing along with the extreme right would have its consequences. And today they are frightened. When the snowball has already become too big.

It was so easy to see it, when the referendum case against the independence movement first began and when its leaders and governors had all kinds of rights violated! But then, everything was valid in the name of Spanish unity.