MADRID. Institutional alarm restarts in Spain. After months of internal battles, the Catalan separatist forces for the first time joined in a united front and promise to declare independence if they get a majority in the elections scheduled for September 27.
The regional president Artur Mas (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia) revived this week to unblock a deal that was going to fail. Oriol Junqueras, leader of Esquerra Republicana, go with him on the same list with a program that includes an explicit commitment to break with Spain within a maximum period of nine months.
The magnitude of the challenge took by surprise Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government, which hoped that the territorial crisis opened three years ago had passed. “It’s going to be independence. We are facing an irresponsible action that will not allow,” he said yesterday.
Unlike what happened last year, when Mas convened a separatist referendum without legal basis, the call early elections to change the government is a legal right that is in your hands.
A Rajoy will cost challenge it in court. Conflict can be huge if the list of Mas and Junqueras wins a parliamentary majority and is about to declare a new state. The Spanish Constitution expressly prohibits it. And react remains to be seen how the European Union (EU), who never lived a similar situation with one of its partner countries.
“Our list is the ballot itself in the referendum that will not let us do” He said yesterday the environmental leader Raul Romeva, who was assigned to lead the unified ballot. But go fourth, but would continue as president in the event of success, according to the agreement.
It was a very unusual decision, which seeks to dilute the prominence of the campaign More and convergence, hit hard in his image.
“We represent Catalan society beyond the games. That’s the message. When we achieve the goal, each will compete for their ideology,” said Carme Forcadell, an activist who occupy the number two in.
The list coincides with a political offensive slump sovereignty apparent momentum. The latest poll released two weeks ago by the social research center under the regional government revealed that 50% of Catalans rejected break with Spain, while 43% want independence. Last year most were those who wanted to leave.
The Catalan political scene is a puzzle. Some polls show the outraged we first in the polls, with less than 20%, far from dreaming of self-government.
Its national leader, Pablo Iglesias, supports the right of the Catalans to decide their future in a referendum, but says he wants in Spain. Some of his allies falter. This is the case of the new mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, it has been ambiguous in discussing the separatist attempt. By the “Espanyol” side, the Popular Party (PP) of Rajoy and socialism collapsed in the May municipal elections. Best Liberal Party stopped Citizens, which the Catalan Albert Rivera gave national projection appears.
More speculated that the independence fervor will explode as the elections approach. They are just after a new mass demonstration by the National Day of Catalonia (September 11).
The unit list is composed of 60% of deputies elected by Mas and 40% by Junqueras. In exchange for this concession, Esquerra forced to shorten the declaration of independence. .
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