The joint communique issued by the Government and the Generalitat after Thursday's meeting at the Pedralbes Palace contains a phrase in which both administrations are committed "to an effective dialogue that conveys a proposal that has broad support in Catalan society." It is written with calculated ambiguity, according to the sources consulted, to satisfy both parties and which served to stage the promise of institutional dialogue, but which is also interpreted differently by each other.
Junts per Catalunya and ERC, the two parliamentary groups that support the government that Quim Torra, disagreed yesterday when EL PAÍS asked them if they are willing to abandon the unilateral path in a definitive way as a result of the aforementioned dialogue. Elsa Artadi (Junts per Catalunya), Minister of the Presidency, said: "Our priority is dialogue." However, she added: "We have always said and will continue to say that we do not rule out any mechanism, as long as it is democratic and non-violent. Yesterday [on Thursday] we all talk about dialogue and we will continue talking. But they should not be just speeches. " Artadi, therefore, does not rule out other ways. In turn, the vice president, Pere Aragonès (ERC), declared that "the priority is negotiation," but when asked what would happen if this were not enough to achieve independence, he replied: "We will insist on dialogue, build bridges and weave complicities. "
In silver: Junts per Catalunya asks for dialogue and, if it breaks, does not rule out other alternatives; ERC demands dialogue and, if it does not work, insist on that path.
The answers reflect the two sensibilities of the independentist movement that governs Catalonia, although these differences almost never emerge in public. ERC, which was the party that decisively pushed Carles Puigdemont a year ago to continue with the declaration of independence and not call elections, is now more inclined to "broaden the social base" of the independence movement, instead of betting on unilateralism . Junts per Catalunya is now championing more radical postulates, sometimes close to the CUP, although in that parliamentary group there are also diverse political sensitivities between the PDeCAT and the Puigdemont supporters.
New statute
The Government considers that there is no possibility of a referendum: the proposal that can be supported by the majority of Catalans is a new statute of autonomy. This is what Pedro Sánchez has explained since he arrived at La Moncloa in June. The last time he insisted on that idea was the past day 12 in the Congress, during the monographic debate in which the president presented his political proposal to unblock the Catalan situation.
The secessionism rejects the option of a new statute, considers it "a past screen" and insists that this path has already failed with the Constitutional ruling of 2010, which cut the text voted by the Catalans. The two parties of the Govern, on the other hand, maintain that the transversal political proposal to get out of the current political blockade is a referendum to "exercise the right of self-determination" that, according to its estimates, supports 80% of the Catalan population. And they remember that it was also the option that the PSC defended until July 2015: the legal and agreed consultation on the political future of Catalonia.
The Moncloa considers that there is no such right to self-determination. Sanchez has also repeated, the last time on the 12th, that he will not authorize that referendum. The Executive understands that the respect for the "rule of law" contained in the communiqué with the Government implies an "unequivocal" commitment of the Generalitat, although sources of the Executive recognize that it could have been more explicit if an express reference had been included to the Constitution, which the Generalitat asked not to include.
If within a few months the failure of the promised political dialogue were confirmed, the independence movement could go back to the old ways and opt for the unilateral path that it had practiced last year with the already known political and judicial consequences: the application of article 155 of the Constitution after the holding of the October 1 consultation and the unilateral declaration of independence and a process that led its promoters to jail or to flee from justice. It is a scenario that can not be ruled out in response to a hypothetical hard condemnation of imprisoned politicians.
https://elpais.com/ccaa/2018/12/21/catalunya/1545423532_601662.html
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