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On June 28, 2010, the TC declared 14 articles of the 2006 Statute of Catalonia unconstitutional and reinterpreted another 27. Among the issues that were affected in the High Court ruling, of more than 800 pages, was the recognition of Catalonia as "Nation", which was specified as having no legal effect.

"Since then, we know something: that the independence of Catalonia is irreversible and that we do not have to give up anything that in a peaceful, democratic way and, when necessary, disobeying in a non-violent way leads us to the independence of Catalonia," he said. Today the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, during an event in Lleida.

A decade after the Constitutional ruling, several political leaders have reflected on what has happened since then in Catalan politics, where the so-called independence process began to take shape, which had its first iconic image at the 2012 Diada.

Through Twitter, the ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras, said: «Ten years ago, the TC cut the Statute and violated the rights of the citizens of Catalonia. Ten years ago, the State taught us, once again, that the only way to make a better country is the Catalan republic ».

«Ten years of the sentence against the Statute, against the Parliament , against the Cortes , against the referendum. In the name of the Constitution that had just been uploaded. Ten years later, the State has not made any rectification, made excuses, or made any self-criticism. On the contrary », the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has written on the same social network.

His predecessor Artur Mas, who was in the kitchen of the statutory text, has affirmed that the TC ruling was "a blessing" for the "pure independentists" because he promoted this movement, which in the last decade has multiplied support to approach 50% of the electorate.

In an interview in Ara , another of the protagonists of the Statute, former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, regretted that the TC ruling limited "unnecessarily" the recognition of Catalan identity and catalyzed the process , a project that In his opinion "it has been a long time since it peaked" and that it has been shown that this is not the way to go. Now, according to the former socialist president, it's time to turn the page and look for a new agreement that will resolve the political conflict. The dialogue table between the Government and the Generalitat , stresses, is the "only hope" that there is currently to achieve this end, reports Efe.

Along the same lines, the leader of the PSC, Miquel Iceta, who claimed the dialogue, has stated: "There is only one way to move forward: maximum unity, good government and negotiating will and capacity."

From the commons , its leader in the Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, defends that "Catalonia needs a reset and face the future in order to move forward," with a new Catalan government "that believes in dialogue."

Different is the opinion of the CUP deputy in the Catalan Chamber, Carles Riera , who wrote on Twitter: «I voted not in the referendum on the Statute. The resolution of the political conflict neither passed nor passes through a better Statute, it passes through independence. Today the dialogue wants to rebuild bridges with the Spanish State and what it is about is to break them ».

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