There are days when politics stops pretending.
Days when a vote is cast, and with that vote, each person reveals themselves.
Today was one of those days.
Because when Congress votes on pension increases, it's not voting on a technicality or a parliamentary nuance.
It's voting on something much simpler: whether you are on the side of those who have worked their entire lives or on the side of political calculationAnd today, PP, Vox, and Junts voted together against it
It's not too surprising from the PP and Vox.
In their ideological manual, pensions are never a consolidated right, but rather an inconvenient expense.
There's always an excuse: that it's not the right time, that there's no money, that it's irresponsible.
Excuses that curiously disappear when it's time to bail out banks or lower taxes for the usual suspects.
Vox, moreover, doesn't even try to hide it: it votes against any measure that smells of social justice. It's consistency, even if it's with a profoundly unsolidary vision of the countryWhat is truly revealing is Junts.
Because it's high time to say it plainly and without complexes:
Junts is acting today as the Catalan far-right.
It is not a transversal party.
It is not a difficult actor to fit in.
It is hard right, neoliberal, and perfectly comfortable voting with PP and Vox when it comes to striking down social rights.
The excuse is the same as always: that the decree mixed things up, that pensions should be voted on separately, that it wasn't the right way.An elegant alibi to hide a very specific decision: to vote no
This vote does not punish a government.
It punishes millions of elderly people who live dependent on every increase, on every bill, on every euro.
People who have already fulfilled their part of the social contract.
When PP, Vox, and Junts agree on a vote like this, it's no coincidence.
It's ideology.
It's a specific way of understanding politics: identity and strategy over rights.
Today they voted together.
And it's worth taking note.
