Parliament enters the campaign

The appearance before
parliament's permanent commission by the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas, initially convened in order to give explanations about the announcement of the plebiscitary election of September 27, turned into an free-for-all to hurl assertions (some, indeed, from parties up to their necks in problems of their own) disqualifications and unsustained conjecture and to make the house seem like the scene of an electoral debate.
The same parties and leaders
who had accused the president
of trying to turn the house committee into an electoral platform, turned the tables on themselves, creating a pre-campaign rally of gratuitous allegations in front
of the media without providing any proof of their accusations
of corruption and with no comment at all about the elections called for September 27.

Certainly, Mas can be accused of making himself appear a victim of attacks in the parliamentary hearing. But at the same time it is also true that yesterday, the parliamentary groups diligently took the bait, one after the other, and made him the star of the political show. A serious strategic error and an example of a lack of political foresight. To attempt to turn the election into a referendum on the figure of Artur Mas could turn out to be an expensive mistake that those who are obsessed
with doing just that, both for or against, in that order, cannot afford to make, because the public is mature enough to know what is at stake is not the future of a person but the survival of a country.