The case of the retired painting is an allegory of what Puigdemont has been doing since he became President of the Generalitat
Carles Puigdemont’s favorite painting has been removed from the exhibition ‘Catalonia’s Contributions to Europe’s Social and Political Progress’. Installed in the corridors of the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels, the sample tries to reflect the contributions
Carles Puigdemont’s favorite painting has been removed from the exhibition ‘Catalonia’s Contributions to Europe’s Social and Political Progress’. The exhibition, installed in the corridors of the European Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels, seeks to reflect Catalonia’s contributions to shaping Europe today and opened this week. The former President and his faithful squire Toni ComÃn, who organized the exhibition with the support of the Girona Provincial Council, forgot to include the exact exhibition in the inventory a photo praising the 1-0 referendum and showing happy citizens holding a ballot box. Next to her is a poster that reads: “Catalonia, a pioneer in Europe”. Since the rules of the European Parliament require that anything displayed in its facilities must be approved beforehand, they asked the two MPs to remove it and, failing to do so, they were presented with the image of two chamber officials who took it away.
“Censorship,” proclaimed a Puigdemont who, after years of being ostracized and discredited as a victim, has now risen to the top. And then he revealed the key to his policy, boasting about having achieved the Streisand Effect — you know, trying to hide something that makes it more visible — involving state-of-the-art photography and that sort of forced retreat. The former president was little concerned about the major contributions Catalonia has made to the law of the sea, the agricultural union or the regulation of the working day in the exhibition. He wanted to post his photo so they would remove it and that an unsuspecting person – see this column – would tell.
The case of the retired painting is an allegory of what Puigdemont has been doing since he became President of the Generalitat. a combination of victimhood and Streisand Effect. He took the ballot boxes out into the street to have them taken, proclaimed his independent republic to abolish them, left his haven in Brussels hoping they would arrest him… He was in the doldrums because the Politics of deception had left him to function, they ignored it until it was reborn through the work and grace of other ballot boxes, authentic in this case, that of 23-J.
The Waterloo fugitive opened the exhibition hours before he dictated the shopping list to Pedro Sánchez to make him president and hours after meeting the vice-president of the Spanish state government who is pursuing him, a “notorious” meeting, according to the softest qualifier found by Alfonso Guerra. It’s the refugee’s big moment, to whom All he had to do was repeat Rubiales’ elegant gesture in the Sydney penalty area of the Women’s World Cup final. The problem now is that what he has put on the table – first amnesty and then self-determination – is something real that needs no effects or tricks because he knows there are those who are willing to accept it.
