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Updated Saturday, March 23, 2024-00:33

The candidacy of

Carles Puigdemont

in the May 12 elections, which the fugitive presents as his opportunity to return as a "legitimate president," leads Catalonia to backtrack to the starting point of the

process

. With ERC dislocated and forced to compete with Junts in independence purity, Catalans will have to decide once again with their vote whether or not they want to reopen the path towards rupture.

Seven years later, the man who led the October 1, 2017 insurrection, with l

because he tried to foreignize his fellow citizens, he intends to return to preside over the Generalitat thanks to an amnesty that he does not see as a lever towards "reconciliation", but as a measure "torn" from the PSOE that

will serve to resume the process towards self-determination

. Faced with the government's false justification of concord, Puigdemont only offers blackmail and humiliation.

In the announcement of his candidacy this Thursday in Elna, the French town where the independentists hid the ballot boxes from the illegal referendum, the fugitive offered the separatism to present a unitary list - ERC has already rejected it - and hold another referendum in 2027. One of his objectives involves belittling the Republicans, who, alongside them, are portrayed as timid negotiators. So,

He boasted of having sat the Government at a negotiating table in Switzerland

.

Puigdemont's electoral push is presumed greater than that reflected this week in the Catalan CIS, which placed Junts in third position after the PSC and ERC. Contributing to this impulse is the poor management of

Pere Aragones

at the head of the Government, with the drought, prisons and school results as the main problems.

Puigdemont's anti-system radicalism, fueled by Pedro Sánchez in his strategy to avoid alternation in La Moncloa, returns Catalonia to the beginnings of

a harmful illiberal bet that has seriously damaged Catalan society

and to the whole of Spain.

The network of alliances woven by the PSOE not only facilitates a scenario as surreal as the flight, immersed in a case of possible terrorism (

Tsunami case

) and noted for its ties to the Kremlin (

voloh case

), can once again preside over the Generalitat. It has also triggered a race between the pro-independence parties, with ERC calling for the unsupportive "fiscal pact" - similar to the Basque concert - that

Artur Mas

claimed to

Rajoy

in the hardest part of the financial crisis. After his refusal, the then

president

He launched into the secessionist adventure.

A decade after the first "consultation" in 2014, Catalonia is facing a new

processes

. With two differences: now

the legal, legal and moral defenses of the State are deactivated

, and the false nationalist story is legitimized from power. The Government smiles while Puigdemont repeats that he will do it again.

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