PSC Primaries?

Yesterday's La Vanguardia carried a story suggesting that the PSC might--might, not will--hold primary elections to chose the party's candidate for the post of Catalan premier in the upcoming election. Bundles with the primary was some kind of democratic opening up of the party's process for choosing its other 134 candidates for parliamentary seats, which was to have been the subject of today's post. Three observations: firstly, this is a trial balloon and may come to nothing; second, if there are primaries and only one candidate stands for election, the process will mean nothing more than its own staging; third, the only primaries the PSC has ever held to choose a candidate, in 1999, were likewise a one-candidate affair. One candidate does not an election make: election means choice.