Separatist prick before the sentence of the procés

Independence yesterday issued a gasp before the 1-O ruling. The ANC only managed to congregate 600,000 people in the demonstration of the Diada, 400,000 less than in the 2018 edition, according to the count of the Barcelona Urban Guard. Never before, since 2012, the process began, had less separatists congregated to request the independence of Catalonia, taking advantage of the commemoration of 9/11.

The municipal police of the Catalan capital had always offered much higher attendance data. He spoke of 1.5 million people in 2012, 1.6 million in 2013, 1.8 million in 2014, 1.4 million in 2015, 875,000 protesters in 2016 - taking into account that the Diada was decentralized in Five cities - and one million people in 2017 and 2018.

The last cry of secessionism before hearing the Supreme Court ruling was drowned by the internal fracture of the parties promoting the illegal referendum, which not even yesterday, in the middle of Diada, were able to demonstrate united by the streets of Barcelona to claim absolution of his cause partners.

It was the ANC who expelled, in advance, the independence formations at the head of the march in retaliation for not having agreed on a common strategy to respond to a possible conviction against the 12 leaders of the jailed process. The separatist entity reserved the first row of the demonstration, with an epicenter in Plaza España, to relatives of prisoners and escapees, witnesses of the 1-O trial or lawyers involved in the defense of the defendants.

Infiltrated among the protesters, the members of the Government decided to put land between them. Thus, supporters of unilateralism, with Quim Torra in front, were placed in the second row, immediately after the header. Together with the president of the Generalitat, the rest of the representatives of JxCat and those of the CUP protested. While ERC was crouched in section 12, in queue, to protect themselves from the enclosures and public reproaches of summoners and protesters.

Neither the Republicans nor the post-convergents managed to avoid the reprimands. "If they don't get up, we'll get up." "If we have to arm it, we will arm it." «If the politicians do nothing, the people will have to do it», the concentrates claimed, clinging to the TV3 microphones, before, after the symbolic time of 17.14 hours, the ANC president, Elisenda Paluzie, implored the leaders of the independence forces "do not disarm" the process.

The ANC leader admitted that yesterday's concentration was "the most difficult" of all those organized by her entity. Paluzie recognized "discouragement and disenchantment for the divisions of political parties" and justified the puncture for the absence of horizons for an independence that had previously manifested before the 9-N consultation or the 1-O referendum. «Now we don't know what we are going to do. We were all against it, ”he insisted before demanding“ unity to finish what we started. ”

But he did not obtain any clarification from the Government of the Generalitat about his plans to react to the sentence. As he did during his institutional message, issued on Tuesday night, Torra opted for "disobedience" and "mobilization" against the decision of the Supreme magistrates. "Today a stage is closed and the sentence begins to be answered," the president said, but failed to specify how he intends to encourage this permanent protest, what these acts of disobedience will consist of, nor if he will promote them from the Catalan Executive himself.

More sparing was, if possible, Roger Torrent, the president of the Parliament, an institution on which Torra intends to fall back on the approval of the strategy to follow after the Supreme Court ruling. "We have to look for a large majority and be able to find an answer," the ERC leader said to confirm that his formation faced this Diada defensively, with the sole intention of not losing electoral pull. Not surprisingly, Republicans defend the early call for regional elections as the most convenient reaction to the High Court ruling.

This explains, also, that his leader, Oriol Junqueras, recalled yesterday from prison that unlike Carles Puigdemont stayed in Catalonia and appeared before the Supreme Court after unilaterally declaring independence.

The lack of unity and assistance tried to be replaced by independence with the already recurring attacks on the State. That is, with the burning of flags of Spain and photographs of the King by Arran, the youth arm of the CUP, or with the usual comparisons between the process and 1-O with the struggles of Luther King and Gandhi or with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Part of the disoriented sovereign mass decided to pay their frustration with the Parliament at the end of the day. Hundreds of protesters congregated in front of the Catalan Chamber and only the strong device deployed by the Mossos d'Esquadra prevented their anger from being discharged by the same institution that passed the "disconnection laws" a little more than two years ago, declared unilaterally the independence of Catalonia and considered a non-existent republic outside the independentista imaginary.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• ANC
• Jordi Sanchez
• Supreme Court
• Diada
• Catalonia
• Cup
• ERC
• Quim Torra
• Roger Torrent
• Oriol Junqueras
• Mossos d'Esquadra
• Spain
• Carles Puigdemont
• Barcelona
• Catalan Elections
• Politics

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