El legítimo heredero del ‘procés’
Nacionalpopulismo y extrema derecha no son exactamente lo mismo, pero ambos se alimentan de mentiras
It is astonishing how rapidly the right-wing, secessionist and Islamophobic Alliance Catalana, led by Sílvia Orriols, has grown in Catalonia. According to the CEO, the CIS Catalonian poll rates the party as the third most voted in Catalonia, ahead of Junts; other surveys place it second, ahead of Junts and ERC. This growth was predictable and was even foreseen.
In the novel "Independencia," set in 2025 but published in 2021, when AC was insignificant, a character notes that what truly changed Catalonia was not the process itself but the 2017 attacks carried out by ISIS operatives bred in Ripoll. The plot revolves around a populist mayor who has become the center of Catalonia's politics, injecting Islamophobia into local discourse.
Much of this is attributed to AC: a party born in Ripoll from the trauma of 2017, with Orriols as its current mayor. It's inconsequential that the novel was not authored by a public servant; what's crucial is that the invented scenario was bound to unfold in reality, especially since Islamophobia has long been a core ingredient of European far-right politics.
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