In every government in the world there is a senior plumber. ‘House of Cards’ or ‘The West Wing’ showed us on screen the inwardness of this type of figure whose face we hardly get used to. In Spain, personalities such as Luis Sánchez-Merlo, Julio Feo, José Enrique Serrano, Carlos Aragonés, Jorge Moragas, José Luis Ayllón and Iván Redondo. In Catalonia, the most legendary figure was in this position Lluís Prenafeta, ultimately convicted of corruption, in addition to Joaquim Triadú, Carles Duarte, Ernest Maragall, Ramon García Bragado, Pancho Táboas, Joaquim Nin en Meritxell Masó. A curiosity that reflects some of the things that are happening in Catalonia: in the wikipedia Only those who held these positions at CiU / Junts governments are listed. For many, too many, the Generalitat exists when it is controlled by whom. Anecdotes aside, that role is played today Sergi Sabrià under the name of Director of the Office of the President.
Prenafeta recounts in his memoirs that the day they entered the Palau in 1980, Jordi Pujol released him: “Lluís, the Generalitat is me and you”. Both came to the point that when the Pujols left Plaça Sant Jaume in 2003, the president’s wife said that she felt that “they had entered her house & rdquor; and that we knew nothing about her at the time. role as superior of a monastery in which the family’s finances were kept in black as if they were missals.Either way, the general of the President of the Generalitat has always had a decisive weight, largely because in this institution protocol, communication, and appearances weigh far more than real power, more administrative than political.Those who hold this position are usually reflections of their bosses. Prenafeta was one of the thousand faces of Pujol while Duarte was a very different one. García Bragado, tried and acquitted of corruption, had characteristics of Maragall and Táboas had those of José Montilla with whom he could share a car ride for six hours and could not say a word. From intrigue to discretion, the range of registers is wide.
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Sabrià is now Pere Aragonès’ shield boy. They are the result of a strange time. Because of their age, as the information experts on the Republicans explain, it would not be their turn to be in Sant Jaume, but in some ministry. Aragonès was already after the arrest of Oriol Junqueras and Sabrià was a parliamentary spokesperson after Marta Rovira left for Switzerland. From those positions, they handled the extravagances of Quim Torra of the presidency. His mantra for a year was not to be like Torra. Although it forces them to navigate turbulent waters, amid the still hyperventilated world of a part of Puigdemont’s party, the eruptions of the CUP and the silences of Pedro Sánchez. Aragonès and Sabrià are at the heart of what political coffee producers call “Esquerra-govern” in a slightly hostile dialectic for the first time with the “Esquerra party” led by Marta Rovira by Marta Vilalta and the “Esquerra movement” by Junqueras.
The project of Winter Olympics It perfectly synthesizes that whirlwind that Sabrià manages as best he can and as he knows how. He handles the world of the old Convergència known to him well, he knows the parliamentary technique and knows how to defend with his party. Another thing is the institutional relationships that can overwhelm a position that is already complex. A meeting to reduce tensions with Aragon President Javier Lambán, this week ended like the rosary of dawn by a heat in which the possible path of leaving the division of competitions between the various ski resorts of the Pyrenees into the hands of the Spanish Olympic Committee led to the abyss of the number of Spanish and Catalan flags that would be set up and to reopen the dispute of sacred art between two left-wing governments. On Thursday, Sabrià was not a reflection of Aragonès and his counterpart left Lambán in a better situation, more given the outbursts he knew this time to contain. The Minister Vilagrà and the President of the COE, Alejandro Blanco have in their hands returns to the path of a project full of nostalgia for the decadent classes of Barcelona and ambition for that dynamic Catalonia that Esquerra strives to represent. And it’s not about flags or remnants.
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