Madrid .- “Do I want that Catalonia becomes independent? No, but I know that the Spanish breed has insulted the Catalan”. With those words Pablo Iglesias ripped the applause in December in Barcelona, chosen for his first meeting following his appointment as secretary general of Podemos.
It’s been eight months since then and, with the election of 27 September in the northeastern region of Spain just around the corner, the party continues to balance emerging in a scenario that has never been comfortable for the left. Catalan accommodate diversity implies loss of votes in other territories, DPA reported.
“We are not separatists, but you do not have any fear or to vote or the democratic consultation, “said a few days ago the number two, Inigo Errejón, head of campaigns.
The formation defends the right of the Catalans to decide about a future with or without Spain, but claims that right in all areas, not only in relation to secession. “We defend a constituent to discuss with each and every process,” Iglesias said in December in Barcelona. The party is held on it and, at the crucial Catalan elections, polarized by the secessionist thesis and Unionists, opens a third way.
“Our program has always been clear, putting forward the needs of the people, “argues Errejón.
With a social approach and focusing on a new constitutional process, which is not a reform of the Constitution, the party that has revolutionized the Spanish policy destabilizes a scenario two poles: the head of the Catalan government, Artur Mas, and its unitary list for independence and against the secession, formed by the Popular Party (PP) Mariano Rajoy, the Socialists and Citizens
“I think we are the only force that is capable, with a program of defeat in elections Mr. Mas” believes Errejón. “Catalan is a historic election but not because Mr. Mas wants to convene the key plebiscite, but because PP and PSOE will have a position as little secondary.”
We can repeat in Catalonia formula in the municipal elections in May allowed to reach the municipalities of Madrid and Barcelona two electoral lists for change.
It integrates into the platform left Catalunya Yeah it’s Pot (Catalonia Yes we can), which are also part ecosocialists ICV and Esquerra Unida and which has ruled out supporting a hypothetical unilateral declaration of independence by Artur Mas.
“We now have three options have broken the schemes of the campaign. And this explains why Artur Mas and Junts role Si (Together for Yes, the secessionist unitary candidacy sponsored) are attacking almost more to Catalunya Pot really is that the unionists, “he told dpa political scientist and professor at the Carlos III University Paul Simon.
At first Catalan elections only a few months before the general elections in Spain, we can go worn.
From the first quarter has been deflated in the polls. In the latest barometer of the Center for Sociological Research, the study of the country’s largest opinion, had an estimated 15.7 percent vote, a similar level of a year ago, far from the 23.9 percent in January, when he stood as a second force, advancing the Socialist Party (PSOE).
His electoral decline occurs with the countdown to the general elections underway. And the special dynamic of the Catalan elections is not expected to result in them generate changes in the electorate of the rest of Spain. However, what happens on 27 September will serve we to signal whether it works the strategy of going to the polls with regional organizations that have a residency and a previous structure.
We have been approaching left formations with territorial implantation in Valencia, Aragon, Galicia and the Balearic Islands and it seems increasingly likely that in the year-end elections concur in those places where candidates with them.
“If you take a decent outcome in Catalonia understand that the strategy works and they have to bet in a more determined way for it” in the general election, says Simon.
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