2023-09-10 22:25:51
Pere Aragonès has warned that an amnesty for all those responsible for the ‘process’ would not be “the end of anything”. The president of the Generalitat has demanded the start of a “second phase” of negotiations with the State that will lead to a referendum on independence in Catalonia.
In his traditional institutional message on the occasion of the Day of September 11, Aragonès has made implicit reference to the negotiation for the investiture of the next president of the Government, for which the votes of ERC and JxCat are decisive.
Ways to “resolve the sovereignty conflict”
Aragonès has been convinced that Catalonia has “the opportunity to resolve the conflict of sovereignty with the State” through two means: “Definitely overcome the repression” and “lay the foundations” so that Catalans can decide “without any limits.” “the political future of Catalonia.
“We know that it is difficult, that the State will not make it easy for us and that it will not give us anything; that there will always be those who fight against it and who will try to undo all the progress we have made. But we also know that nothing is impossible,” he said. pointed.
“Until the Spanish State responds to this democratic demand, the conflict will exist”
In an implicit call for negotiating unity between pro-independence parties, he assured that by “joining efforts” and working “jointly” Catalonia will have “more strength to take advantage of all the opportunities” that open after the general elections, which have given the key to the Spanish governance to ERC and JxCat.
The amnesty is one of the demands that ERC and JxCat have put on the table for any investiture negotiations, and Aragonès has also demanded the transfer of Cercanías and “the end of the fiscal deficit.”
The Catalan president has now added another claim: “Immediately begin a new phase of the negotiation focused solely and exclusively on the substance of the conflict.” He wants that in this negotiation the governments of Spain and Catalonia agree on a way to “respond to the majority will of the citizens of Catalonia to decide by voting what the political future of the country should be.”
For Aragonès, ending “all forms of repression is an indispensable condition” to be able to negotiate on an equal footing, “but amnesty, by itself, does not resolve the conflict of sovereignty with the State.”
“Catalonia wants to vote freely on independence. And until the Spanish State does not respond to this democratic demand, the conflict will exist,” warned Aragonès, who has avoided using the word “referendum”, but has demanded at various points in the speech a vote on independence.
Independence unity for the “second phase of negotiation”
That is why he considers it necessary to start “a second phase of negotiation”, after the dialogue table between governments of the last legislature, now “adding complicities and aligning strategies”, unlike in recent years, in which JxCat did not want to accompany ERC in their talks with the central government.
Aragonès is committed to agreeing internally on “an inclusive proposal” on how the citizens of Catalonia should vote and “jointly defending it before the State” so that it can be conveyed, for example, through a “clarity agreement.”
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