Several authors have shredded the process with sharpness and clairvoyance : Jordi Canal, Lola García, Pau Luque, Guillem Martínez, Sánchez Cuenca. Others, taking advantage of the insurrection of 2017, have contributed a wide-angle view, such as John H. Elliott in Catalans and Scots and Ruiz-Domènec in Report on Catalonia , both published by Taurus. This group should include a general essay of a revolt (Gutenberg Galaxy), by Francesc-Marc Álvaro. The La Vanguardia columnist and former chronicler of EL MUNDO DE CATALUNYA incisively addresses the origin, causes and protagonists of the sovereign process. Mix history, journalism and political science . Flee from dogmatism and maybe that's why he will be branded as a perfidious third party.

One of the juicy chapters of the book is titled Trampantojo. After recording the distance that separates the independence report from the prosecutor's accusations, he says he is interested in investigating the "factual truth", not just the "procedural truth". He regrets the "tons of noise" that buried the events of October and digs into the final conclusions of Melero. Forn's lawyer argues that the Generalitat "made no declaration of independence." No laws or decrees were enacted. The flag was not lowered. There was no notice to the diplomatic corps. And there was a general compliance with 155. Beyond the criminal consequences of 1-O, Álvaro's virtue is to use Melero's description to strip the clumsy and improvised imposture of the Puigdemont government . To reveal a colossal fraud incardinated in the long march initiated by Pujol at the time of building the bases of the revolt. The independence scam eats everything it touches : the prisoners, the masses - paralyzed by frustration - and now the commands that will shake the streets after sentencing. Álvaro's essay helps to understand the kamikaze roadmap of sovereignty. In his view, the submission of the process to an "extreme acceleration" led the secessionist parliamentary majority to violate the legal framework of autonomy. Hence underestimated the coercion of the rule of law of the fourth economy of the euro.

The impending sentence will mark 10-N. The Chamber chaired by Marchena will issue the penalties under fully guarantee legislation. But the mere fact of calibrating preventively its political effects, in one sense or another, reveals the failure of the institutions of our democracy in addressing the territorial issue . The inability of the political class, on either side of the Ebro, to abandon emotional tension and articulate reasoning channels will only aggravate the Catalan problem , which is actually the Spanish problem .

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