Under an incessant rain and with
a procession of flags and torches illuminating the night of Barcelona
- a picture that could have come from the darkest years of the last century - the autonomous festival of Catalonia began at dawn on Saturday.
And that spectral show at the Fossar de les Moreres already anticipated what would be
a Diada marked by low participation
-justified in part by the Covid restrictions-
and by the division around which way to follow towards the i
ndependence between the parties that make up the Government
and the associations that support them from the street.
Because the boos and shouts of
botifler
(traitor) who had to listen
Oriol Junqueras
before starting the celebrations reflect
the climate of confrontation between ERC
-which has mortgaged its credibility to the results of the imminent dialogue table with the Government of Pedro de Sánchez-,
JxCAT
-that, as a member of the Government, will participate in the extra-parliamentary meeting, although he has already expressed his skepticism- and the
CUP
-whose frontal rejection does not prevent him from giving two years of truce to
Pere Aragonès
before withdrawing his support.
For its part, from
Òmnium
, have called for the unity of the independence movement to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a weak government, while the
ANC
, which called the evening march, with the motto
Lluitem i guanyem independence
(Let's fight and win independence), it only relies on street pressure and one-sidedness, as demonstrated by the altercations led by the most radical.
However, despite these discrepancies in tactics, what still holds the separatists together is the strategic aspiration to the same goal: the holding of a new referendum on self-determination and, when the time comes,
the unilateral declaration of independence
.
In the institutional speech of the Diada, Pere Aragonès reminded Pedro Sánchez that, at the dialogue table that will begin next week, the Generalitat considers a new consultation for independence "inalienable".
AND
Pedro Sánchez knows that the pardons granted to the 1-O coup plotters will be of little use to him
to those who have already reiterated their willingness to try again to break the constitutional consensus and force the rupture of the territorial unit by
the path of fait accompli.
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