Barcelona. AFP. After six months of disagreement, the Catalan independence movement has become a unite ahead of regional elections, which hopes to transform in a first step towards secession, despite warnings from Madrid and the king’s efforts.
One of lime and sand . The lime was given by the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, on Thursday, to react strongly to the creation of a unified list for the independence of Catalonia: “There will be no independence of Catalonia” said sharper than ever <. / p>
The sand comes from King Philip VI, who in his first year in office intensified its visits to this region of 7.5 million inhabitants and a fifth of the Spanish wealth.
On Friday received a formal meeting at his palace Catalan independence president, Artur Mas, for an hour and meeting room which must not be released.
“I come in peace,” joked But before being received by the monarch, with a straight face and barely a word.
Three days before ruling agreed with the Catalan independence of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) a plan to accelerate a hypothetical secession of Catalonia if they win the elections on 27 September.
Curbing can. Faced in recent months for their ideological differences, the party Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC, center-right) Mas and ERC (left) will be presented in coalition in this election they want used as a referendum on independence
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The bid, led by the powerful ANC and Omnium civil associations, responsible for mass demonstrations, aims to revive the nationalist electorate and can halt the rise of.
We rocked in the past year and now persuades Spanish policy in Catalonia, thus threatening the power of nationalism. The party rejects independence but promises a new constitution that reflects the multinational character of Spain and Catalonia’s right to decide their future.
“There is concern about the emergence of Podemos” said the political scientist and columnist for the conservative daily ABC , Ignacio Martin White. Agrees political analyst Joseph Ramoneda, to ensure independence between the parties was feared that the emergence of the background can leave in the nationalist debate.
This fear was born, according to Ramoneda, in the municipal elections of May 24, when a citizen integrated platform we swiped the Mayor of Barcelona to the nationalist movement.
For September, the Left is preparing a similar list, with the aim But to beat, who relate to budget cuts and corruption.
This threat caused the two separatist leaders, Mas and ERC President, Oriol Junqueras, leave behind the evidenced differences from the symbolic referendum held on November 9.
Since then not stopped losing support, according to surveys by the regional government, which for the first time since June 2011, showed an anti-independence majority.
“the possibility of defeat looked and increased pressure to agree,” said political analyst Klaus-Jürgen Nagel of the University Pompeu Fabra.
The list is not the headline But frowned upon from the left, but Raul Romeva a ecolocomunista exeurodiputado emerged from one of the Allied formations can. A decision “a clear attempt to neutralize can,” said Martin White.
What will Carme Forcadell and Muriel Casals, the ANC leaders and Omnium, whose demonstrations forced over to leave behind his moderate nationalism to embrace independence.
If you get a parliamentary majority, which recent polls cast doubt, they will undertake an ambitious plan to achieve independence, even declaring it so unilateral.
But even not exceed an absolute majority, the pro-independence coalition seems to have secured power in the region. The opposition would be very fragmented and irreconcilable parties as we and the conservative Popular Party, so “there is no possibility of alternative government,” said Ramoneda.
“will be a sovereigntist government but probably not enough to take steps towards independence and will continue in this situation of stalemate that already does exist and is not resolved weather force, “he predicted.
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