On the eve of National Day of Catalonia, in which hundreds of thousands of people will again take to the streets to demand consultation and independence, the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, made a unit of lamamiento sovereignism to keep alive the independence process, which began two years ago and has its culminating dated November 9. A goal that requires not spend forces in internal disputes.
Mas has always argued that the main pillars of the project are strong social mobilization, a senior political consensus and respect for legality. The first is still alive today and will make a show of muscle, with the concentration of the ‘V’ human, the Catalan National Assembly and Omnium Cultural, two engines of independence, organized in the streets of Barcelona. It will be the third consecutive major mobilization, fourth if you count the rejection of the decision of the Constitutional Statute in 2010, celebrating the Catalan and shows that if it’s convening power, Catalan challenge is thriving.
“The social majority that makes the political process in Catalonia can not faint, but still more alive and stronger than ever”, yesterday said Mas in the speech of the president of the Generalitat on the occasion of National Day . The central government, he said, “should take note and listen to the peaceful and democratic clamor of the people.” In his view, Rajoy “is still time” and warned that “silence the voice of a people who want to talk about is a mistake” and “deny the vote to the polls who sees the solution, not the problem, is a double error. ”
The second column of the process, the unity of the parties, however, falters. But knowing that is a very delicate edge, called to close ranks. With the celebration of National Day “we have the opportunity to park our sometimes excessive internal divisions” to give “response to the desire and the will of the majority of our society,” said the nationalist leader. The four games that drive the inquiry, CiU, ERC, CUP Initiative and have been able to come together almost until the eve of the referendum, but as we approach the November 9 common interests it cracks.
The ‘case Pujol’, which has forced the sovereignist forces left to face CiU for the creation of a commission of inquiry and, above all, the answer Mas has to give more than probable suspension of consultation by the Constitution, have opened a schism in sovereignism that neither the spirit of 1714 seems able to stanch. “The political consensus” process vertebra Catalan said Mas, who externalized their “will” that this “does not crack unit” and, moreover, can “expand”.
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The President of the Government tries to keep alive the flame of the query, but also think about the day after, giving almost for granted that the referendum may be concluded that the Constitutional suspended and shall abide the law. The number two Convergència, Josep Rull, said that it is not making a “sham” vote, which is what they ask ERC, CUP and the Catalan National Assembly when urging civil disobedience. “If the polls are taken out to the street, bad business, because the polls must be at polling stations,” Rull, which so far was one of the leaders of it maintained a more Convergència independence unequivocally stated online, but with your turn hints that CiU and would have assumed that the referendum may not be held.
The Catalan CiU and do not want a query without legal protection, then you do not have international validity and that is a ceremony in which only part of the independence vote and does not serve to be replanted in Madrid and urge Mariano Rajoy to make a move. Therefore, Mas gave notice in its institutional discourse Oriol Junqueras unit to make the transition between the date of the consultation and the plebiscitary elections, in which if they managed to agree on a unified list and sweep the polls, they could play hard on the doors of the Moncloa.
To tandem Convergence and ERC could join the PSC sovereignist splinter. Not so Unio, whose president, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, and is preparing a new centrist party, as an alternative to independence.
What is not clear is that ERC wants to go Convergència hand, a party in free fall and hurt by Pujol and Millet cases. Republicans feel strong, “gesture” as Rull said, because they aspire to be the benchmark of sovereignism and while this growing electoral support has tightened Mas, despite the presidential advisor, Francesc Homs, denied yesterday that the government Catalan ERC has pressures.
More used the speech to call on citizens to manifest. “The Catalan people will show the world what the Catalan way of understanding democracy and freedom,” he said. He stressed that this National Day has a “special historical significance” and adorned his speech with historical references. “Also this flagship lounge Palau de la Generalitat was the place where the decision to defend the Catalan constitutions and resist heroically in Barcelona until saw the entry of the Bourbon troops on September 11, 1714 was made in 1713.”
took advantage to give moral support to those who begin to see trembling in the legs – “my commitment to convene consultation is firm,” he said, stressing that the “Catalan nation is alive; have country; and prepare ourselves democratically, peacefully and civilly to decide our future. “
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