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Quim Torra intends to take advantage of the renewed alliance between PSOE and Ciudadanos on the occasion of the state of alarm to encourage confrontation against the State and reactivate the separatist process once the first wave of the coronavirus has been overcome.

"The new normality must culminate with an independent state, it is irreversible", the head of the Catalan Executive in the Parliament has proclaimed, in response to a question from the spokesman for Citizens in the Catalan Chamber, Carlos Carrizosa , during the control session held this Thursday.

Torra has accused Sánchez of applying a "155 health" by extending the state of alarm without an agreement with the Catalan independence forces, which demanded the end of the single command and a commitment to "co-govern" the remainder of the health crisis without the guardianship of the State in exchange for its abstention.

Already yesterday, after no ERC, CUP JxCat and plans of the government, called Torra all Catalan separatist forces to "work together to complete the independence of Catalonia".

Torra is eager to use the failure of the ERC when agreeing to the state of alarm to regain leadership of the independence process and to point out his still members of the Govern as a force that invested Sánchez so that months later he would strip Catalonia of powers during the pandemic and despise Catalan independence despite having been key in their arrival in La Moncloa.

Faced with this situation, ERC can only try to redirect the relationship with the PSOE to agree on the return of the table on the Catalan conflict, although publicly it hardens its speech against Sánchez and threatens to dynamite the legislature. "It cannot be that, at each step we take, the dialogue table must be renegotiated. What we agree must be fulfilled, "said the national coordinator of the Republicans, Pere Aragonès , in this regard. The formation chaired by Oriol Junqueras cannot allow the separatist forum to fail, after his determined commitment to promote a negotiation with the Government to agree on a self-determination referendum. The abrupt end of the table would offer new weapons to JxCat to underline the PSOE's betrayal of independence and portray ERC as a naive collaborator of the State.

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