CiU's xenophobic video.

I will never learn the lesson. After listening to Rajoy's demagogic discourse throughout this last four years I desperately looked around for the hope of a different kind of right-wing party in Spain. And thought I found it in Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, the Parliamentary spokesperson for CiU, Catalan Christian Democrat party, in Congress. A man of great oratory and gently manners, conservative yes, but of a healthy kind.

But today my hopes have gone astray after seeing Duran i Lleida's new video for the March 2008 campaign. At the beginning of the video one can see a Catalan newspaper in a bin with a headline about the story of a Moroccan father prohibiting his daughter from attending PE classes in school. The paper is located on a dark alley surrounded by Arab businesses in Barcelona clearly linking immigration and the intolerance of an isolated case. It is interesting as the entire video is all about complains, infrastructures, education and crime, with immigration put into the same basket of 'bad things' happening in Catalonia.

I will never learn the lesson. Right-wing parties cannot help themselves to score points on such cheap arguments. I am extremely disappointed with the only right-wing politician left in Spain I had a bit of respect for.

You can watch the video here:

http://www.ciu.cat/reproductor.php?v_id=22418