Independence offers symptoms of exhaustion. The indefinite mobilization encouraged by the Government of the Generalitat to respond to the Supreme Court ruling on 1-O loses strength in the streets. Yesterday, 350,000 people demonstrated in Barcelona, ​​according to the Urban Guard, to defend the culmination of the separatist project and ask for the release of the procés leaders, which is 30% less than in the general strike on October 18, when 525,000 secessionists gathered in the Catalan capital for the same purpose. The decline exceeds 40% when compared to the march of the Diada , when there were 600,000 mobilized sovereigns and up to 65% if the million protesters of September 11, 2018 are taken as a reference.

"We will go as far as you want us to get," Quim Torra cried at the beginning of the demonstration, before knowing that the street he was spreading begins to turn his back on him with the numbers in his hand.

The division of separatism led the president of the Generalitat to delegate to the sovereign mass the reaction to the ruling of the Supreme, but neither its harangues nor the desperate occurrence of holding a new referendum of self-determination at the end of this term seems to be correcting a Downward trend that weakens the "massive civil disobedience" project devised by the Government and implemented by the ANC, Òmnium, the CDR and the opaque Tsunami Democràtic.

Aware of the growing risk of demobilization, the leading leadership of the independence movement redoubled efforts yesterday to pretend unity and maintain its challenge to the State.

The staging began hours before the independence demonstration started, when almost 800 separatist mayors from all over Catalonia went to the Palau de la Generalitat to support Torra in his sustained pulse with the Government and Justice. While the councilors raised their command rods and claimed to have approved in their town councils motions against the Supreme's ruling, the president proclaimed: «Our commitment to exercise self-determination has no return. Do not faint ».

The vice president of the Government, Pere Aragonès, seconded the harangue and asked the mayors not to let "push" to achieve the freedom of the "sovereignist prisoners" and the holding of a referendum agreed with the State to which ERC, unlike Torra, He doesn't want to date.

The president of the Parliament and the dome of the Government attended a performance that Artur Mas inaugurated in 2014 to seek the support of the municipal world to the 9-N consultation and which imitated Carles Puigdemont in 2017 at the gates of 1-O with the support of the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, then promoter of the event and yesterday absent.

The mayor also avoided appearing in the evening demonstration, which sought to overflow the borders of independence and bring together formations and entities outside the separatist cause but dissatisfied with the ruling of the Supreme. Nor was that objective fulfilled, as evidenced by the disruption of CCOO, which was initially part of the promoters of the concentration, but who decided to leave after finding the violent drift of secessionism.

The demonstration was, then, and as always, in the hands of the ANC and Òmnium that yesterday already fed without a doubt the conspiracy theory that the City Council of Barcelona is deliberately lowering the number of assistants to the independence demonstrations since the PSC began to control the Urban Guard after the municipal elections of May 26. "Shame, we will ask for explanations," cried vicemnium vice president Marcel Mauri. «We begin to believe that there is intentionality. Let's see what figure they give tomorrow [for today], ”added Elisenda Paluzie, president of the ANC, referring to the constitutionalist march called by -Societat Civil Catalana that Barcelona will travel today.

The successor of Jordi Sànchez - today sentenced to nine years in prison for sedition - proposed during the general strike last week to unilaterally declare independence and "defend it" in the street. Yesterday, he delved into that line without being so explicit and addressing the Government of the Generalitat directly, to whom he demanded "an urgent institutional response and at the height of the current historical moment".

Torra, Aragonès, Torrent and the rest of the Government dome listened impassively from the head of the demonstration while their dwindling followers demanded "unity" to a separatist movement with no more road map than castling.

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