The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas has assured today in Switzerland that the State will not agree to a referendum on the independence of Catalonia neither in the “short nor in the medium term”, Europa Press reports.
In a roundtable discussion titled ‘Celebrem! Future perspectives of the Center Català de Lausanne (Switzerland) together with the general secretary of ERC, Marta Roviraand the former CUP deputy in the Parliament David FernandezBut he added that, however, the best conditions are given to try to negotiate a referendum. “The pro-independence world has the upper hand,” he stressed after making it clear that “it will be difficult for this situation to be repeated again.”
Rovira added that, sooner or later, a response will have to be given to the right of self-determination of Catalonia. “The independence movement has no other possible project other than a referendum,” she stressed. For his part, Fernàndez has shown his distrust of the State to materialize a hypothetical referendum and has said that the Government will not accept it. “none” of the five proposals in the report on the clarity agreement.
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Rovira, who has resided in Geneva (Switzerland) since 2018, has warned that “the political conflict cannot be resolved with an amnesty law” and has stated that with this law, in his opinion, some political rights that should not have been recovered would be recovered. lost. Meanwhile, Mas has accused the PSOE of moving “out of necessity, and not out of conviction” before the negotiations for the investiture of the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. “The PSOE thinks that by giving the amnesty it already complies,” he said ironically.
Rovira has opted to unite the forces of the independence movement. “Negotiating separately is crazy, it doesn’t make any sense.” “We have only advanced when we have gone together,” added Fernàndez about the need to define a joint dialogue between the Catalan independence movement and the State.