Taking advantage of the summer heatwave and the break in news coverage for any political issue other than the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the conversations about the Congressional Bureau and the daily offer to try and seduce Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan European Democratic Party - better known as the PDeCAT - has leaked that in September it will hold an assembly to decide whether it would be appropriate to dissolve the party after the electoral failure of July 23rd and the economic deficit that it has left in the organization's accounts.
The party created on July 10th, 2016, and which intended to provide a makeover for the former Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), after its former leader and long-time Catalan president Jordi Pujol had confessed in 2014 to having an endowment from his father in a bank account in Andorra, has failed to overcome, first, its lack of leadership - both Marta Pascal and David Bonvehí collided from the very first with those who had been leaders of CDC until that moment - and, later, the division that culminated in 2020 with the departure almost en bloc of its main leaders starting with Carles Puigdemont and the-then jailed ministers Jordi Turull, Josep Rull and Quim Forn. Later, Artur Mas and Xavier Trias, among others, also walked away.
After this departure of nearly a thousand members, everything was a matter of time. Even more, if it hadn't been for interests who saw that a political party like the PDeCAT maintained a certain capacity to subtract votes from Together for Catalonia (Junts), the dissolution would have been finalized quite some time ago. Thus, with an assisted will, it participated in the last election held for the Catalan Parliament. It did not obtain any MPs in those elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, but its 77,229 votes were enough to achieve its purpose and prevent Junts from having options for the presidency of the Generalitat, which fell to the Catalan Republican Left (ERC), after finishing with about 50,000 votes more than its rivial.
Then came the recent municipal elections, which resulted in another failure - it won 187 local councillors out of the 9,069 elected in Catalonia - and on July 23rd the cycle closed with zero deputies out of the 48 elected to the Congress of Deputies from Catalonia. The PDeCAT was thus officially a zombie. Ten days after these elections, in which their candidate Roger Montañola, despite running a good campaign, obtained just under 38,000 votes and was overtaken by animal rights party PACMA, the time has come for creditors, debts and a non-existent future.
It remains curious that, in very different circumstances, Ciudadanos and the PDeCAT have both collapsed with just a few months between them. In the end, satellite parties, created from nothing or without a real base, end up disappearing no matter how much interest there is or how many services they have provided.