When he decided to form a government through an unprecedented coalition with Podemos, Pedro Sánchez knew that the vote of the independents would be decisive. Hence, Esquerra Republicana, aware of the nuclear role it can acquire in this legislature, is subjecting the PSOE to an unprecedented derision. The pact signed yesterday by the National Council of ERC endorses a bilateral table between the Government and the Generalitat of extraparliamentary character. In addition, it pushes the Socialists to accept a referendum in which only Catalan citizens decide their future , thus opening the door to undermine national unity. And all this, without making an explicit mention of the Constitution, extreme that Sánchez already assumed in the surrender of Pedralbes. The terms of this agreement, framed in a rhetoric that assumes the demand of independence to force the State to negotiate self-determination, are deeply damaging to national sovereignty. Spain does not deserve that its president leave a parliamentary majority based on those who perpetrated the 1-O coup.

The approval of the abstention approved in the National ERC Council clears the impending investiture of Sánchez. It was the position defended by the dome of this formation and also by Oriol Junqueras himself, although ERC preferred to delay the final decision in the deliberation bodies to stage his punishment in terms of public image and political credit to the Socialists . The conversations with the PSOE are being used by JxCat to agitate secessionism against Esquerra because the loot obtained is scarce. Torra, which today could be disqualified by the Central Electoral Board, yesterday disavowed its Government partners and demanded Sánchez "a clear vote on independence." Nationalism has always been insatiable in its voracity that, in the case of Catalonia, is no longer of self-government but of separation. This shows Sanchez's serious mistake in accepting the independence votes to remain tied to power.

It is unpresentable that the Spanish found out yesterday about the content of the PSOE pact with ERC through the latter. The acting President of the Government, instead of offering a detailed and public explanation, has preferred to stand on opacity and secrecy . And it should be stressed that what Sanchez has agreed to negotiate concerns all Spanish citizens. Opening the door to call a vote supposes, de facto , to legitimize the main requirement of separatism, which consists in recognizing Catalonia as a subject of sovereignty. No investiture is worth humiliating Spain.

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