After the failure of the procés, the separatists now affirm that their objective is to hold a referendum and demand, in exchange for approving the Budgets, that the Spanish Government authorize a negotiating table.
Before the refusal of Pedro Sánchez, they accuse him of behaving like Mariano Rajoy, who in his moment settled the issue with the famous "I do not want nor can I".
Also from other non-independentist ideological spaces, such as Unidos Podemos and its confluences, the falsehood is repeated that the viability of a referendum is a matter of political will alone.
I will not insist on the reactionary nature of secession in democracy, because it is selfish and frivolous, nor in the toxic nature of referendums to settle identity passions.
The news of Brexit enlightens us about the disaster of populist promises.
For the great Canadian federalist, Stéphane Dion, the democratic ideal invites us to live together, integrating our small differences into a larger political community, while secession asks citizens to break their ties of solidarity on the basis of ethnolinguistic belongings.
That is why secession is not a right in democracy and our Constitution is not an exception.
Neither agreed nor consultative referendum
Against what the pro-independence or sectors of sovereignty preach, such as Ada Colau, although there was political will on the part of the Spanish Government, the agreed referendum they are talking about is not possible either today or tomorrow.
The Constitutional Court has unequivocally ruled that introducing the right to secession requires an aggravated reform of the 1978 text. It is a long and complicated process that, as detailed in art. 168, requires the approval by a two-thirds majority of the Congress and the Senate, the immediate dissolution of the Cortes and another ratification by both chambers and, finally, the holding of a referendum throughout Spain. Thus, the only option that a Government in Madrid would have that would like to negotiate self-determination would be to push for a reform of that scope, but with zero guarantees of success.
Nor is a consultative referendum only in Catalonia based on a lax interpretation of Article 92.
The TC has made it very clear in various judgments that "fundamental issues that were resolved in the process can not be subject to referendum or referendum. constituent "and that, therefore, the redefinition of the subject holder of sovereignty must be channeled through the constitutional reform envisaged in article 168. In 2014, said tribunal affirmed that references to the right to decide are not unconstitutional, but he invited the Parliament to formulate a proposal for an aggravated reform, something that the separatists did not do.
So, when they claim to have exhausted all avenues, it is another lie. The truth is that a referendum is a chimera, the absurd thing is that they insist on it to condition their support for Budgets. That is why they are likely to end up accepting the counteroffer of a decaffeinated commission to vote the accounts and keep gaining time.
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/opinion/20190121/presupuestos-y-referendum-7258216
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