The Catalan National Assembly (ANC) It has established itself as the voice of the pro-independence supporters who did not go to vote in the general elections on July 23 and wants to impose its theses and a sort of strategic direction of the pro-independence movement in the negotiations for the Congress Table and, above all, in those related to the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
The organization has fertile ground in Junts, whose hard core around Puigdemont exhibits pro-independence firmness and “Octobrist” orthodoxy before the socialist and Sumar interlocutors, and wants to extend its influence to ERC and that the formation of Oriol Junqueras come back to the fold AND in ERC there is a notable predisposition to rebuild the bridges with the so-called “civil independence movement” after a phase of disagreement that culminated in the “Diada” a year ago, when the party did not attend the “unitary” call due to the veto of the organization itself, which accused the party of having taken an autonomist turn with the table of dialogue and his pacts with Sánchez regarding pardons and the reform of the Penal Code.
So both parties are interested in a confluence. To this end, the ERC spokesperson, Marta Villalta (attached to the fugitive Marta Rovira), announced last Thursday that her party would attend the demonstration organized by the ANC for next September 11, a regular appointment but one that this year is especially relevant because it will take place in the midst of contacts for a hypothetical investiture by Pedro Sánchez.
Vilalta’s thesis is that “Circumstances have changed” and that this year the call is not “hostile” and it is considered “from a more open, transversal and plural perspective”. However, the turnaround coincided with the support expressed by Teresa Jordà, the new ERC spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, for the PSOE to preside over the Congress Table.
The conditions of Dolors Feliu
A day later, the president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu, marked the guidelines of the “reunion” on the radio of the Count of Godó. “The parties that call themselves independentistas have to make a blockade in Madrid and not provide facilities for a government if there is no path to independence“, stated the leader of the separatist entity. “There can be no State Government if there is no referendum,” Feliu insisted on the same microphones in a specific message for ERC.
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The independence movement takes amnesty for granted and alludes to the intention of the Constitutional Court Prosecutor’s Office to appeal the inadmissibility of Puigdemont and Comín’s appeal for amparo regarding their arrest warrant in Spain decreed by the court’s Vacation Chamber as proof that the PSOE is willing to force a judicial shelving of all cases related to separatism. But that is not a sufficient condition for the most orthodox sectors. The referendum is non-negotiable, as Puigdemont’s deputy Antoni Castellà, also spokesman for the Council of the Republic, stated this Saturday. “Catalan Brexit or electoral repetition“was the headline that the former Christian Democrat dropped.
This is also the thesis that the ANC wants ERC to assume, a party that until now has emphasized the transfer agenda, the cancellation of the Generalitat’s debt with the Autonomous Liquidity Fund and an economic concert for Catalonia similar to the one of the Basque Country.
He Eleven of September It will be a litmus test for ERC, which comes from two electoral setbacks in the municipal and general elections, rules in the Generalitat with only 33 deputies out of the 135 that make up the regional parliament and fears that a repetition of the general elections will consume a overtaking of Together in the separatist camp.
The ANC is organizing a demonstration with four columns. The first, called “liberty”, will depart from the city of Justice, in Hospitalet. The second, that of the language, from the Proa School. A third for “country”, from Sants station and the last one, for “sovereignty”, from the headquarters of the Tax Agency in Barcelona, in Plaza Letamendi. They will all come together in the Plaza de España, renamed for separatist purposes as “Plaza Primero de Octubre”.
Pressure on Republicans
Dolors Feliu refused to give figures on the sale of shirts and the number of registered in her radio intervention, but she was confident that all the independentistas who did not go to vote on 23-J following the call to abstain from the ANC itself and other separatist organizations they will turn to the Diada this year, whose background will be to demand that ERC (with Junts it is not necessary) to force Sánchez to mark a defined, clear route, with dates and with guarantees towards independence. That or an electoral repetition that Feliu, Castellà, the president of JxCat Laura Borràs, her general secretary Jordi Turull and the headliner in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras, all agree. means giving the “extreme right” and the “extreme right” a chance. But as Castellà said this Saturday, “there is a before and after 1-O” of 2017 and Puigdemont did not go to Belgium to remove and install presidents of the Government of Spain.
2023-08-13 17:27:42
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