Today, June 19, five years ago we made public the Founding Declaration of Units per Avançar, in which our political coordinates are collected. On the national axis we are a catalanist party and on the socioeconomic axis, a humanist party inspired by Christian Democrats. From our Catalan nature derives the defense of the national reality of Catalonia in the bosom of a Spain that we understand as multinational. We do not make an option for independence, but rather we aspire to a new relationship framework between Catalonia and Spain that happens, among others, due to the legislative deployment of constitutional precepts such as the existence of nationalities made explicit in the Magna Carta, rather than its reform. We also aspire to a financing model that it adapts to this reality, that it is based on objective aspects such as, for example, the contribution that Catalonia makes to the GDP of Spain, that it adequately attends to the powers that the Generalitat has assumed over the years and that it confronts rigor and honesty the endemic infrastructure deficit that we suffer.
A Catalan vision that defend our language positively and consciously flees from the sterile confrontation that the two poles of our Parliament intend. we care the evil that certain independence views have done to the social use of the language through botched attempts at appropriation. An attitude that has not only expelled a part of the citizenry that, not having Catalan as its own, had joined the linguistic consensus, but has also given wings to sectors that see the end of the so-called ‘procés’ as an opportunity to disengage of promoting the social use and learning of Catalan. This is the reason why we are part of the National Pact for Language and We have voted in favor of the Catalan law promoted by a broad spectrum of Parliament.
From our humanistic vision it follows an active defense of equal dignity among all people, issue that encompasses not only the positive defense of life, but also a humanistic vision of the migratory reality. On the social level, we make a bitter defense of the subsidiarity principle, understood not only as a regulatory principle of relations between the different administrative or governmental levels, but also -and above all- as the respect that public powers must have towards families and intermediate units. In the opinion of Units per Avançar, the State or the Administration are subsidiaries of the initiative of families and other intermediate entities. We must let society breathe and not replace it. From here arise issues as relevant as the right of families to choose the educational model they want for their children, which places us at the opposite end of those visions that assign a preponderant role to the Administration. We also defend the inseparable link between freedom and responsibility.
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Lastly, on the economic front, we are committed to the Social Market Economy, one that can be defined in a simple and understandable way as “as much of the market as possible and as much of the State as necessary”. A conception that distances us both from the liberal vision that entrusts everything to the market, and from that of a State planning the economy, typical of visions of a left to overcome.
hard times are coming
It is with these coordinates and with these references that we travel through a complex present and towards an uncertain future. The frustration of an important part of the citizenry that feels cheated by the false promises of a new country, is added to the distress from a no less important part, which sees the risk of being excluded as its purchasing power declines, as a result of the perfect alignment of negative factors such as high inflation, the price of fuel and energy and the lack of raw materials, root of the war in Ukraine started when we had not yet healed the wounds of the pandemic. Difficult times are coming that will require agreements between political options of different signs at the service of the most important thing we have: social cohesion. With modesty, but also with conviction, Units per Avançar will bet, once again, on the pact. We have done so in our recent past and we will do so on the horizon of the next municipal elections, betting more on the addition and strengthening of the central space than on its fragmentation.