Podemos supremacism

The Spanish legislature is currently what was once known as a black market, when language wasn't required to go through the abrasive grinder. There are still crumbs to be shared. But elections loom on the horizon, for which the main and secondary players are already openly taking positions.

The one most viciously joining the bombardment is Podemos. It's well known that it's better for the little guys to have a bad temper to stick their heads out. The more dwarfed they are, the more shouting they get. You have to stand on tiptoe to gain height and be heard.

The position of the right and the far right is more honest than that of Podemos.

The purple party leaves no stone unturned. Sánchez is a warlord, despite the president's utmost theatricality regarding the Palestinian tragedy. Those in Sumar are weak, and from then on, for them, everything is fascist-like right- wing politics . Or almost.

The duo Ione Belarra-Irene Montero and composer Pablo Iglesias should be given a separate meal. Yesterday, they performed their favorite piece of recent times again. Accusing the Mossos d'Esquadra (Spanish police), Junts (Junts), and, by default, anyone who thinks that immigration demands stricter control of incoming flows and greater integration requirements for new arrivals, of racism.

Podemos reiterated its refusal to vote on Tuesday in favor of the law that would allow the transfer of some immigration management powers to the Generalitat of Catalonia. This was a crucial agreement between Junts and the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) to save, in the nick of time, one of Pedro Sánchez's omnibus decrees just as the legislature began.

Podemos's refusal will make it impossible to comply and adds further uncertainty to the legislature, although Pedro Sánchez can always claim it wasn't his fault. But beyond the impact Podemos's decision may have on the poisoned web of relationships that have turned the legislature into a sick man on the verge of brain death, given the seriousness of what has been said, it is important to focus on the reasons given by the purple party for refusing to vote in favor of transferring immigration management powers to the Generalitat.

The main argument is that these new powers will be used to develop racist policies, and that this will be achieved with the collaboration of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police force), which, according to the argument, is also a racist police force.

The reason for such an outrageous assertion without blushing is that the party demanding jurisdiction is Junts, which, feeling threatened by the Catalan Alliance, wants to promote anti-immigration policies from the Generalitat. They forget, among other details, that Junts does not govern Catalonia.

This voting motivation on the part of Podemos shows its true face, which is the face of authoritarianism, which, as is well known, also nests within the left. Things are only good if they are led by me or those who think like me. Their supposedly decentralizing approach is not territorial, but rather based on ideologies. If you're blue, you don't deserve a competition; if you're red, perhaps; if you're very red, go ahead. It's strange that, with so many theorists, academics, and intellectuals as Podemos has in its ranks, they are incapable of developing anything more solid than this filthy argument to defend their position in a vote.

The position of the right and the far right is much more honest than that of Podemos. The arguments of the PP and Vox for new concessions of powers respond at least to a certain vision of the State and to the fact of considering the decentralization process complete (the former) or to the desire to reverse it (the latter). Podemos's position is something else. It is denying a power to a region simply because they believe it will not implement it according to the only program they consider legitimate: their own. Gabriel Rufián was right to censure his close Podemos friends on this occasion. And Puigdemont also nailed it a few months ago, when he accused Belarra of being a supremacist for insisting on accusing the regional council members and the Mossos d'Esquadra of racism. Indeed, ideologically, they are.