The Catalan president called for "making effective the right to
self-determination" and have "an international mediation"
In the last meeting between the President of the
Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra,
which took place in Barcelona on 20 December, Torra handed Sanchez a document
with 21 points to address a solution to the Catalan conflict. In this document,
released on Tuesday, the Generalitat insisted on the need to "recognize
and enforce the right to self-determination of the people of Catalonia,"
and called for an "international mediation that should facilitate negotiation
on an equal basis." Precisely, this mediation is what the independence
parties now require as a condition to withdraw the amendment to the totality of
the General State Budgets.
Both governments left the meeting defending a brief joint
statement, in which they were summoned to "continue to
promote spaces for dialogue" despite maintaining "notable
differences" on the ways of resolving the conflict.
The document delivered by President Torra to
Sánchez is divided into three areas that the Generalitat considers essential to
reach "a state pact" to solve the conflict. These are: giving a
democratic response to Catalonia; the democratic regeneration of Spain; and making
Spain free of Francoism. Only with these three principles, claims the document,
it will be possible to revert "the distrust of the citizenship of all the
state, and especially the Catalan one, which affects practically all the
institutions".
In the first area, the Generalitat calls for the
right to self-determination to be recognized and "effective", for
international mediation to occur, and for the judicial way to be abandoned. It
also demands that the "police and economic abuses" towards Catalonia
be investigated. In the field of democratic regeneration of Spain, the document
considers, among other points, that "the deterioration of Spain's image in
the world must be stopped" and that to do so "the separation of
powers must be guaranteed". Finally, in the context of what the Catalan government
considers "the influence of the Franco regime in Spain," the document
calls for a debate on the monarchy, the annulment of all Francoist trials and
implementing a policy of mass graves.
The 21 points of the 'president'
1. The Government cannot govern against Catalonia.
2. The right of self-determination of the people of
Catalonia must be recognized and enforced.
3. International mediation is necessary, which must
facilitate negotiation between equal parts.
4. The sovereignty of Catalan institutions must be
respected and not threatened with the application of Article 155.
5. The police and economic abuses exercised against
the people of Catalonia must be investigated.
6. The judicial route must be left behind.
7. A commitment to political ethics is to be
promoted.
8. The separation of powers must be guaranteed.
9. It is essential to put an end to the limitation
of fundamental rights.
10. The decline in the democratic quality of Spain
has to be reversed.
11. The deterioration of the image of Spain in the
world must be stopped.
12. The complicity of police forces and the
judicial apparatus with the extreme right must end.
13. Judicial independence must be guaranteed.
14. It is necessary to ensure respect for Human
Rights.
15. The shadow and influence of the Francoist
culture survives and is incompatible with the democratic fullness in Spain.
16. Indolence with fascism, impunity with fascist
attitudes is directly related to the impunity of Franco's crimes.
17. The neo-fascist groups have to be isolated and
denounced.
18. The existence of privileges derived from
Francoism is incompatible with democracy.
19. It is necessary to undertake an explicit
process of making Spain free of Francoism and a debate on the monarchy.
20. The nullity of the Francoist trials is an essential
step of historical memory.
21. A policy of mass graves must be enforced.
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