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Again in Barcelona , where this week he negotiated with ERC the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, has made, this Sunday, a call for independence, which has sounded like a desperate plea, so they can take advantage " the opportunity "of the dialogue offered by the socialists.

With these words, Ábalos has closed the XIV congress of the PSC, which has unanimously re-elected - 93.5% - and with hardly internal debate to Miquel Iceta as first secretary. Reinforced by the PSOE and theirs, Iceta has proposed the holding of a referendum in Catalonia to vote "an agreement".

"We are facing an opportunity for those who think that conflicts are faced through dialogue. Because if the dialogue thesis is not fulfilled now, it will be broken. I don't know if there will be other moments," Ábalos has warned. The Minister of Development has called ERC - interestingly, the only party of the Parliament with the CUP that has not been present at the close of the PSC Congress - to make "courageous decisions before they are aborted."

Without dissimulation or nuance, Ábalos has linked the investiture of Pedro Sánchez to a possible solution of the "political conflict, of coexistence, call it what you want" that Catalonia suffers. "The Investiture is the first step to address a dialogue process," he reiterated. Either Sanchez or chaos, or socialism or train collision, has come to say the secretary of the Organization of the Socialists, thus putting in a same degree of responsibility to independence and Spanish "right."

More blunt, in this sense, has been shown with the PP and Citizens than with ERC and Podemos, its impending government partners. Popular and liberal, whom he considers "cynical and hypocritical," he has been accused of blocking the constitution of a new government by pure revenge.

The "alibi" on the right, according to Ábalos

"The right does not feel concerned for governance. To say that we want to govern with those who want to break Spain is their alibi," said Ábalos, ignoring that Sánchez has not responded for weeks to the calls of the president of the PP, Pablo Casado , and the leader of Citizens, Inés Arrimadas. "They are complexed by the extreme right and want to suffocate Spain."

In the intervention of Iceta, already re-elected as the first secretary of the PSC and with the endorsement of the PSOE against the criticism of some territorial barons such as Javier Lambán and Emiliano García-Page, Iceta has run to be the next president of the Generalitat and He has defined as a "federalist" who wants to vote in referendum "an agreement" on Catalonia. "We want to vote on an agreement, not a division, not a break," he stressed.

The leader of the Catalan socialists has also wanted to replicate criticisms about his defense that Catalonia is "a nation". The recipients of his words have been veiled Lambán and García-Page, but also Manuel Valls, for his article published in THE WORLD, and the PP and Citizens.

"I do not admit that they tell me that I am outside the Constitution, a text we are proud of, because we were in its elaboration," he said visibly offended. "This Constitution has a second article that says that Spain is made up of nationalities and regions, and we know why they were integrated. Lesson just and those who can give them, which are very few," added Iceta.

The XIV Congress of the PSC has finished with the whole plenary standing up singing the anthem of Catalonia and the International.

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