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The negotiating table of Pedro Sánchez with ERC, which will begin this Thursday to try to guarantee the investiture of the socialist leader, worries the entities and associations of Catalan constitutionalism. They do not want to be repeated, as happened in 1996 with the Majestic Pact between the then presidents José María Aznar and Jordi Pujol , that the Executive of Spain pacts with the nationalist elites and, in his eagerness to ensure a placid legislature, "betray" to the millions of Catalans who feel Spanish.

If at the end of October the Catalan constitutionalism returned to the streets of Barcelona in mass with a demonstration under the motto "For the concord, for Catalonia: Enough!", To which the PSOE (reluctantly) joined, PP , Citizens and Vox, now Societat Civil Catalana (SCC) black-on-white a decalogue of demands to Sánchez that delimit the framework of dialogue within the law. A document, to which EL MUNDO has had access, which replicates the requirements for the ERC dialogue to Sánchez and, likewise, wants to serve so that the secretary general of the PSOE does not forget (or purposely ignore) non-independence Catalonia.

"Independence broke all the rules in October 2017, it should be clear now that breaking the framework of coexistence does not give you any right to any preferential treatment," says SCC. The document prepared by the entity chaired by Fernando Sánchez Costa , which is entitled Decalogue to recover democracy , calls first "to make institutions normal" what is a daily reality in the Catalan streets. That is, the Catalan Administration is not refractory to a society that "expresses itself in Catalan and Spanish" without problems. Thus moving away from that "idealistic construct of nationalist court" that Jordi Pujol piloted during his 23 years in command of the Generalitat. "Give visibility to the constitutionalist Catalans," says the main entity of resistance to Catalan separatism.

That scenario would happen, SCC points out, to guarantee the neutrality of Catalan administrations, both in their policies and in their aesthetics - they have turned many of their public buildings into sanctuaries for those convicted of sedition - as well as public media that they have "put themselves at the service of an ideological project, breaking the fundamental democratic principle of government neutrality."

In this sense, they demand President Sánchez to make possible the "ideological decolonization of public spaces" and, even more important in his opinion, put an end to "the system of linguistic immersion and school indoctrination." That the Castilian and Catalan from now on share the condition of vehicular languages in the schools of Catalonia, since for SCC the "school monolingualism system is discriminatory and does not recognize our cultural and social reality."

Other points of the constitutionalist decalogue before establishing any type of dialogue are: the "depoliticization of the Mossos", the cessation of the "client policies" of the Catalan Administration, initiating for this the central government an audit to quantify the public resources that are they have diverted for decades to strengthen the independence project; a clear and explicit rejection of the independence parties of the "unilateral way and violence" as a legitimate tool for their purposes.

Finally, SCC proposes a reform of the Electoral Law that abolishes "the unfair and discriminatory limitation of seats on the province of Barcelona that prevails in the Statute". An imbalance that favors rural territories and where independence has traditionally found more support to consolidate their majorities in the Catalan Parliament.

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