The deadline for reactivating the "negotiating table on the Catalan conflict" ends without any anticipation that it will resume. The ERC vehemently demanded that the forum be reactivated during the month of July in exchange for support for the latest extension of the state of alarm, but the Republicans have met with the null interest of Quim Torra to return to share a table with Pedro Sánchez. The Government has taken advantage of the president's laziness to postpone the meeting and continue cultivating his relationship with Citizens with a view to an eventual support of the liberal formation to the General State Budgets that could save the approval of the accounts if those of Oriol Junqueras opt for reject them to mark their own profile at the gates of the autonomous communities.

"There is no time to convene the table in July, but not because the Govern has not had the will. Who has not had it is the Government, which has sought various excuses, "said yesterday the spokesman for the Catalan Executive, Meritxell Budó .

The facts deny it. It was Torra who in early July launched a boycott of the forum when she refused to agree on a date for the second meeting with the government until she had the guarantee that the meeting would discuss the holding of a referendum and the prisoners' amnesty. The President of the Generalitat announced that he would hold a previous summit between the pro-independence forces and entities - to which the CUP or ANC was invited in addition to ERC - to agree on a roadmap focused on the organization of a new 1-O, a completely unaffordable script for the Government.

However, on July 14, Torra decided to postpone that meeting sine die alleging that the outbreaks in Catalonia pushed the Government to focus all its efforts on containing the second wave of infections.

No other movement has since made Torra to revive a table that he always planned to dynamite to deprive ERC of its main electoral argument, that they managed to get Sánchez to sit down to negotiate secession.

"We have availability and it is not for us if it is not convened in July," contested the government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero , and then urged ERC to negotiate the Budgets independently of the table tempos.

Junqueras continues to bet on resuming negotiations with the government even though he accused the state of "being afraid of him and wanting him locked up" after suspending the third degree judge and returning him to prison along with four other secessionist prisoners.

But Torra is only pursuing an open confrontation until the elections. "If the Government has any hope of resuming dialogue, it will be necessary to demonstrate first that they have the firm will to stop hostilities against the Catalan independence movement," he proclaimed in an institutional statement issued after learning of the prisoners' fate. "With this decision they make us stronger and invite us to better prepare ourselves to definitely stop being prisoners of an authoritarian state," he threatened.

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