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In the aftermath of a recent meal at the Círculo del Liceo, one of the few refuges that the Barcelona bourgeoisie has left, a group of prominent men analyzed how, since the outbreak of the procés, the main institutions of Catalonia had been falling into the hands of the more independentism radical and thunderous.

In the conversation, nostalgia for lost power mixed with the smoke of some Petit Churchills and impotence in the face of a new world dominated by populist codes, was mentioned as an example of

"the brains" that lead Catalonia to the abyss

the name of Joan Canadell (53).

Current president of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the brand new commitment of Carles Puigdemont to act as his vicar in JxCat and, if Laura Borràs ends up being disqualified by the courts, she will opt for the presidency of the Generalitat after the February 14 elections .

Born in Barcelona in 1967, Canadell has gone in a decade from being a three-to-fourth businessman, better known for the great stars that decorate his nine gas stations than for the (almost non-existent) benefit of his business, to presiding over the Chamber of Commerce from Barcelona.

Replacing Miquel Valls in May 2019, after defeating two figures of

the

Catalan

establishment

at the polls, such

as the banker Carlos Tusquets and Enric Crous, former general director of the Fira de Barcelona and the Damm beer company.

The unexpected victory of Canadell, married, father of three children and industrial engineer, culminated an entryist operation by the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), which would later emulate in other Catalan institutions to extend the capacity of influence of the independence movement beyond the political sphere.

The landing of Canadell in the Chamber, after a controversial vote that the Prosecutor's Office now asks to annul after having found numerous irregularities, caused a great impact on the Barcelona business class,

as he was a person outside the halls of power of the Catalan capital

and presented himself as the scourge of the "Upper Diagonal", which is how the independence movement of the provinces identifies the bourgeois neighborhoods of the upper area of ​​Barcelona, ​​where in the hard years of the

procés they

wore more flags of Spain than stars on the balconies.

Canadell, however, was already before presiding over the Chamber a character admired by radical separatism, due to political activism in social networks and in nationalist associations that began in 2008 by confusing the Catalan Business Circle, an

entity that has as The aim is to bring together all the independentist business community

and establish itself as an alternative employer to the historic Foment del Treball, which it considers to be one more Spanish phalanx.

It is this political activism, together with the determination of the upstart, which best defines Canadell, a regular beach volleyball player in Atmella del Vallès, who had his political baptism as an ERC militant at the beginning of the century, with the tripartite government formed together with the PSC of Pasqual Maragall and Iniciativa per Catalunya.

An alliance with the left that turned the guts of the young Canadell,

considering it contrary to the "independence essence"

, which led him to go together with the republican councilor Joan Carretero to Reagrupament, a new party and in tune with the xenophobic discourse of the Italian Liga Norte.

Canadell chatting with Torra

An ultra-nationalist radicalism that Canadell carries in his DNA - he usually calls Catalan constitutionalists "colonists" - and which has been increasing in parallel with the growth of his popularity and media coverage.

Thanks in part to all kinds of outbursts and eccentricities, such as his public defense that Christopher Columbus, in addition to the game of Chess or the United States flag, are of Catalan origin, which have made him add to the label of supremacist the geek.

The first, thanks to statements such as the one made during the state of alarm, when he stated that

"Spain is unemployment and death,

Catalonia is life and future."

Reinforcing the message of the Generalitat, chaired then by Quim Torra, so similar to Canadell in moral baseness, that Madrid had gone from "stealing" Catalonia to "infecting" it.

Another of his outstanding actions as president of the Chamber was to request a boycott of large companies such as La Caixa, El Corte Inglés or Repsol, considering them enemies of the Catalan people for not supporting the independence plans.

He also recommended consuming services and products from companies that

"have nothing to do with the Ibex-35 or the BOE."

The second label that Canadell proudly carries is that of being an eccentric person and passionate about historical revisionism and strange theories.

He is particularly fascinated by the obscure and subsidized Institut Nova Historia, whose contributions to universal historiography include the "discovery" that Leonado

Da Vinci was actually Catalan

and that the mountains he painted were not the Dolomites, but Montserrat .

Thus adding, according to Canadell and his iconoclastic historians, to another long list of illustrious Catalans, including Shakespeare, Erasmus, Santa Teresa, Copernicus and Lope de Vega.

There is nothing.

With the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, Canadell once again demonstrated that his commercial sense of smell is not one of his virtues, nor with the invaluable help of TV3 as a showcase to promote the launch of a "100% Catalan" mask, which covers the entire head with a combination of plastic and cardboard, and of which he recognized, in a gesture of sincerity that honors him, that it was not the safest on the market, but it was the

most "committed" to Catalonia.

Undoubted advantage with its competitors that did not prevent the patriot mask from being a sales failure.

All this combination of xenophobia and magical thinking has ended up seducing the fugitive Puigdemont, a man who loves to surround himself with eccentrics and fanatics,

choosing him as his new puppet in JxCat,

waiting for Canadell to be the president of the Generalitat and reactivate, with his directives from the den of Waterloo, the breakthrough path of Catalan separatism.

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