The election results bring good news for most voters (which does not mean "for most parties"). First, for the independentistas. At one point on election night, when almost 70 percent had been counted, Lidia Heredia, on TV3's special program, said: "Independence is not a soufflé, it's an Alicante nougat!"
She was right. The independence movement, managing the pandemic, with leaders imprisoned or outside Spain, with a rivalry that would make Mourinho and Guardiola pale with envy, and with all the force of the Illa operation, wins and breaks records. It achieves 74 seats and the symbolic 51% of the votes (and that's with Pdcat and Primàries falling by the wayside). Independentista voters ---who, as we have seen, are not those on Twitter--- want their leaders to understand each other.
The Republicans move ahead of Junts (there is a technical tie between Illa and Aragonès, closely followed by Borràs) which makes Aragonès president and shifts the government to the left. For the first time, and in the absence of pacts, there will be a party with "republicanism" in its acronym presiding over the Generalitat. Good news for the CUP, which with Dolors Sabater achieves a great result, and good news for the Comunes, who are surpassed by the CUP, but who can approve budgets that take into account the crisis that will have to be managed. Now is Pere Aragonès's moment. As someone said during the campaign: "You would leave him the keys to your house." Many people have left them to him. These are keys he will use, I have no doubt, to talk. That's what is needed.
On the "constitutionalist" side, then, are the usual voters (there are no more) distributed differently. Above all, Alejandro Fernández's PP loses. Fernández is a good conversationalist, funny, and positive. I heard him on Laura Rosel's program and thought I would gladly go to dinner with him. He is the Catalan PP, the one from before, the one who would not go to tear down yellow ribbons, nor to Puigdemont's town, nor would he ---I hope--- take photos for Telva in the Parliament. Fernández, in his appearance, came to say that there had been "external forces" that had conditioned his result. He was referring to Bárcenas's last gasps, I suppose. But he made a lethal move. Lethal for Ciudadanos, but also for him: he signed Lorena Roldán, who had been called ---and I think not at all convinced--- to be an Arrimadas 2. This was a hard blow for the disoriented Carrizosa (of whom, as in El Cantar del Mío Cid, you think: "God, what a good vassal if he had a good lord"). But it was a declaration of intentions (similar, with all due respect, to the signing of Álvarez de Toledo) for the serious voter of, so to speak, Santiago Fisas's PP. In fact, we haven't even heard her during the campaign.
We can also consider Vox's entry into the Parliament good news. Yes, yes. Let me explain. This party (of which we will now know the number two, three, four...) takes most of Ciutadans' voters. Therefore, it hates, as we know, the "separatists" and all that they are and represent. But it hates more groups. And this is the good news. The affected groups will be able to share this hatred and all its picturesque ways of representing it much better, which we will soon see in the Parliament.
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