“La pela es la pela” or the revolt of a “charnego”
Charnego, is Catalan slang, refers to a person who was not born in Catalonia, but lives in Catalonia for a long time. Do you know a “charnego”? José Montilla, the current president of the Catalonia Autonomic Region, is a “charnego”; he was born on Iznájar – Córdoba – Andalusia (by the way, a village with a Moorish origin name).
It is symptomatic that, usually, the worst nationalists in Spain were those who were born out of the nation they are claiming. A clear example is José Montilla: reviled by the nationalists (leftists such as ERC and conservative, such as CiU) for become the first “charnego” presiding the Catalonia Autonomic Region, and also reviled by the non-nationalists because of that. The problem with those worst nationalists are that they need to be more extremists to hide their “charnego” origin. It happens always.
There is a miser’s legend on the Catalans in Spain, identifying the Catalans as greedy and stingy. And Mr. Montilla, the leader of the PSC (the PSOE faction in Catalonia) is exceeding expectations as a bad “charnego”. “La pela es la pela”, as they used to say. This is not the problem.
The problem is that this collecting greed is a move to hide the Catalan situation, with a lot of companies fleeing from Catalonia to other countries or locations with a cheaper workforce, and with an increase of unemployment and lack of rights on the population. The problem that the claim for more independence, more funds and more differentiation is the only solution of the PSOE on Catalonia for not loosing the power and for fighting the other political forces (specially CiU) with the same arms. And if the PSOE only has the nationalists arms in Catalonia, who is defending Spain there?
The same happens in the Basque Autonomic Region with the PSOE. But the thing is… To whom do I have to believe? Do I have to believe the PSOE in Spain or in Catalonia? Do I have to believe the PSOE in Spain or in the Basque Autonomic Region, or in Galicia, or in the Balearic Islands? What is the real face of the PSOE?
The real face of the PSOE is… none. It does not have any face that the ones that can allow it to gain or retain the power. Is the face of Mr. Zapatero, a person untrustworthy, capable of betrat his best friends of his values (does he have some?) in order to continue being the Spanish president. President of what Spain?
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