As Professor of Political Science Joan Botella indicates in the prologue of this book, the reading of Catalunya Mitos y Resistencia offers a guide to the evolution of the "procés" from the legal point of view. And it is necessary to bear in mind that its author, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo is a jurist and has been for many years the Anticorruption Prosecutor.
Thus, the articles collected here constitute both a history of the "procés" and a permanent critical reflection on its limitations, its contradictions and its effects. Put in order and seen as a whole, these texts show a Jiménez Villarejo hostile to the political events that Catalonia has experienced in recent years. But they also show the position of a strong defender of a constitutional reform that gives way to a federal state.
The trajectory of Jiménez Villarejo had a high point with the complaint against Jordi Pujol in the Banca Catalana case, a complaint that was tortuously deactivated by the PSOE Felipe González. This complaint gave him a popularity that continues today intact.
- Joan Botella in the prologue of Catalonia Myths and Resistance:
The "procés", especially in the years of the Presidency of Artur Mas, has wanted to take on legally "correct" forms. To do this, they wanted to build doctrine, with an Advisory Council of the National Transition; lawyers were mobilized; documents were published; it was presumed to have important economic and diplomatic support abroad; and an attempt was made to place it in the wake of other similar recent processes, such as Quebec or Scotland. Transitional laws, referendum law, projects of future Catalan constitution or similar instruments are reviewed with a knife by the implacable logic of the jurist Villarejo, and the result is unappealable: the supposed legal construction of the "right to decide" is not upheld. [...]
What first marvels and then annoy Villarejo is the acceptance of this discourse by a large part of the left (including a good part of the left supposedly "radical" and "transformative"). Recognizing their differences, a good part of the Catalan and Spanish left have considered the "procés" as the expression of a popular, democratic movement that aspires to nothing else than to claim the legitimate rights of people and peoples. Rights that are taken from them by a centralist, authoritarian right, and ultimately, heir to the Franco regime. -
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