Carles Puigdemont makes it clear that he does not intend to give up his goal of achieving independence because this is “the only way” so that Catalonia continues “existing as a nation”. In the midst of a countdown to the deadline for an investiture, the mediator and national recognition continue to be two knots in negotiations that all parties agree are moving forward without wanting to take them to the limit and that have as their epicenter a amnesty law of which they do not let go of a pledge. So much Pedro Sanchez like the former president, they have been surrounding their respective areas for days Room for maneuverand if the acting president seeks to clear the unilateral path as a threat and limit the agreement within the framework of the Constitution, the moral leader of Junts aims for the independence aspirations are not injured and acquire a new status of legitimacy before the State.
In case anyone has lost this fragment of the first conference of September 5 in Brussels, please reproduce: pic.twitter.com/9ImlYxfXIu
— krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont (@KRLS) October 22, 2023
It is from this situation that Puigdemont has once again published a new message with the intention to set the tone in a negotiation in which the interlocutors carefully measure when they intervene publicly and in what terms to pull the rope, but without breaking it. In his letter on the Specifically, the one that refers to Catalonia being “an old European nation that has seen their national condition attacked by the Spanish political regimes since 1714, done because they see their political independence as the only way to continue existing as a nation“.
A way of conveying that neither a supposed agreement for the investiture nor the approval of the amnesty law will put an end to the root of a conflict that claims to be born from a historical domination of the State over Catalonia and the impediment to their aspirations. Beyond the exoneration of the causes of the ‘procés’ and an external arbitration that supervises the negotiations, Junts insist that there be an explicit recognition of Catalonia as a nation and of the wrong sufferedas well as “respect for the democratic legitimacy of the independence movement”, the basis for being able to project an agreement with a “historic” character.
Just this Sunday, the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illahas called for abandoning “personalisms” and “partisanships” to take advantage of what he considers to be a “exceptional opportunity” to end the conflict in Catalonia. But both the ‘president’ Pere Aragonès this week in the Senate and Junts insist that the amnesty is only a starting point to address the root of the disagreement. Asked about that status that Puigdemont wants to reach an agreement with the PSOE and that connects with his strategy of defending against the European courts that there has been a “persecution” of the independence movementIlla has limited himself to saying that both the Statute like the Constitution “are clear” when defining Catalonia as a “nationality” simply.
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In the speech on September 5, the former president He did not put as a condition ‘sine qua non’ for the investiture the holding of a self-determination referendum, a claim that was left for a second phase in a legislature in which Sánchez, if he manages to repeat as president, will continue to need the votes of Junts. He did say that what he would demand was nothing that could not have a place in the Constitution if there is political will on the other side of the table. Also, and with a vocation to move its strategy away from that of ERCthat its seal would be that of “payment in advance”despite the fact that Junts already assume that the amnesty will hardly be approved before the investiture and that it is possible that the Catalan officialdom in the European Union, an issue that the European General Affairs Council will deliberate again on Tuesday, will take longer to become a reality.
On the other hand, national recognition would not depend on administrative procedures or institutional calendars or court endorsement, but would be an intangible that could be displayed immediately against the independence movement in a negotiation in which both Sánchez and Puigdemont will need to project that they come out on top.