The celebration of the Council of Ministers in Barcelona on December 21 has shown the growing distance between the government independentist movement and the rest. The existence of differences between the different sectors of the independentist movement is not something new, it has been expressed on different occasions and it can be explained because political actors of very different nature coexist within this movement (parties, pressure groups, activists are ascribed and groups direct action) that since the beginning of the process have not only shown strategic differences and different repertoires of collective action to achieve independence but also radically opposed models of society once achieved. Hence, for example, the reluctance of the CUP to join Junts pel Sí in 2015 or its refusal to invest Artur Mas. On the other hand, pressure groups, the so-called civil society led by the old Omnium Cultural, the ANC and the increasingly less visible Súmate, had always advocated the unity of action of the separatism by pressing ERC and CDC and successors to cooperate and concur together to the elections instead of competing. At least until recently.
The primary of Graupera
The decision of the ANC to promote, on the initiative of Jordi Graupera, a primary election in Barcelona and other municipalities of Catalonia to elect the candidates of the independence movement to the municipal elections, and the failure of its unitary strategy for the refusal of the established parties and of the Crida National of Puigdemont to join the initiative, have altered not only the relations between the pro-independence association and PDECAT and ERC but the very nature of the association. Thus, bearing in mind that one of the commonly accepted criteria for distinguishing a political party from other types of organizations is the fact that they present candidates for the elections - which is exactly what the ANC is doing in the face of the municipal elections, something very different from what happened with its leaders Carme Forcadell and Jordi Sànchez when in 2015 and 2017 they were integrated into collective candidacies - it seems that this association is mutating into a party.
The ANC, in addition, has shown great dissatisfaction with the meeting held by members of the Catalan government with members of the Spanish government and for the maintenance of dialogue and maintains its commitment to the unilateral route. It moves away definitively from the governmental independentist movement and even from its leader in prison, Jordi Sànchez, supporter of the meeting, and as regards the strategy it is increasingly closer to the CUP and to the street activism of the supporters' CDRs, the one-sidedness and the implementation of the republic. The distance is such that its leader, Elisenda Paluzie, has come to affirm that if the Catalan government does not comply with this program it will be necessary to think about its replacement. And that, despite its enormous influence, can only be achieved with a presence in the institutions for which, previously, it is necessary to have submitted to elections.
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/opinion/20181227/la-anc-pide-el-divorcio-por-astrid-barrio-7220968
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