• Catalonia.The CUP pressures Torra and conditions the support for the Budgets to the "direction" of the Government towards independence

Fireproof. Unlike other celebrations of September 11, the independent entities and parties know that they are facing one of their last opportunities to get the appearance of a unit that begins to crack. If in previous calls for the Diada they were clear about the common objective, such as that of 2017 with the 1-O referendum just around the corner, this time the electoral cycle this year and the most likely advance of the elections in Catalonia For autumn or early 2020 they mark any strategy of the parties, including the movements in Congress to justify both hypothetical support and rejection of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez at the head of the Government.

It is clear that the parties begin to move with a speed and a very different objective from that of the social and political entities of the hard core of the sovereignist movement and even within each formation the disparity of tactics to achieve quotas of power or not to lose what is It has made the much-claimed unit more and more difficult. These internal disputes have generated more tension in recent weeks, mainly after the way of expressing disagreements of some entities, such as the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), with the post-election pacts in which both Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) and Junts Per Catalunya (JxCat) dared to put forward an agreement for the interests of the parties rather than for independence.

And it is that the tension accumulated in the street during years of sovereignty process has repelled towards the parties that encouraged it. Former ERC councilors already assured that they would not go to the Diada due to this climate of rejection of their representatives, since one of those who has been more in the spotlight has been the deputy of Esquerra in the Gabriel Rufián Congress for his extended hand to Pedro Sánchez. However, the actions of the Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) leaving garbage and excrement in several headquarters of the two main sovereign formations and their subsequent conviction by numerous leaders of ERC or JxCat are a sign that there is increasingly more distance between grassroots independence and political leaders with their own strategies. Nor does it help that the months continue and the new promised state is not realized.

Given this situation, both Òmnium Cultural and the ANC demanded unity from all sovereignty not so much to have a massive Diada, an obsession for independence that considers that lowering the figures of recent years can be seen as a symptom of weakness by the rest of Spain, but as an essay before the ruling of the Supreme Court against the secessionist leaders tried for rebellion, disobedience and embezzlement and that is expected to be known in October.

That is why yesterday the spokeswoman for JxCat in Congress Laura Borràs said that the sentence will be "the closing of a cycle that began with the 1-O" and the beginning of a "new stage" in the sovereign claims, without specifying what they will consist of . That is why he appealed to the sovereign parties and entities to make "a common front" since beyond each other's strategies "the objective is the same." Speaking to Rac1, Borràs said that this Diada should be against "a response from all, as unitary as possible" since "in Spain they see disunity."

Also from the CUP they demanded a “as unitary as possible” Diada, with “a great mobilization” of citizens, although the anti-system assured that they maintain “their own agenda” of acts to be able to claim their proposals. This was explained by the deputy of the CUP in the Parlament Carles Riera who stressed that training will alternate participation in unitary acts, in which "a very broad response in favor of the political rights of Catalonia" is visualized, with an "own agenda »Of mobilizations. "The CUP will make every possible effort to ensure that the Diada has the most unitary mobilization possible, and more when it could coincide with the ruling" of the Supreme Court assured Efe Riera and added that when the judicial resolution is known, "it will possibly be a moment critical for what must be a great demonstration of unity, as strong as possible, in defense of civil and political rights and the exercise of self-determination ».

On the events for the Diada, which has not yet materialized, the CUP does not want to give up "to put its own political profile on the street through a mobilization agenda of the independence left" as it does every year. In this way calls will be made in the Fossar de les Moreres in addition to the own demonstration at a time other than the unit organized by the ANC. A few days ago, the CUP already announced that the best response to the sentence is "to generate a mobilizing wave of more than October 1 and 3, 2017 and sustain it, so that it drags parties and institutions towards a break with the State."

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