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A fledgling extra-parliamentary formation born a year and a half ago to try to bring together the highly atomized moderate Catalanism is behind the challenge that puts the postponement of 14-F in check.

The political scientist

Astrid Barrio

(Barcelona, ​​1974)

presides over the

Democratic League and claims in conversation with EL MUNDO that "Catalonia is in an almost Bolivarian situation" after the Government decreed on Friday the suspension of the elections and linked the call for 30 May to his own analysis of the evolution of the pandemic.

Against an "absolute perversion" Barrio defends acting.

Against "a flagrant abuse" and "the possibility that a government in office, ill-welcomed and fought, lengthens its stay in power and is enabled to call elections whenever it wants based on criteria that we do not know" "And much more taking into account that there is no president, who is the one who has the power to dissolve parliament, "he insists.

"We do it because we are not an interested party in the elections, but we are in defending the rule of law," offers the leader of the Lliga, who resigned from participating in the Catalan electoral race after failing her two priority avenues to do so.

The conversations to "articulate a Catalan center force" did not materialize, nor did the very advanced negotiations held with the PSC crystallize, because, after the landing of

Salvador Illa

, the Catalan socialists only proposed the incorporation of members of the Lliga to their list, not the creation of a "platform" that would make the project of this formation visible with broad coincidences with the more Catalan ideology of the PSC.

It has them because those from Barrio ask for "the recognition of Catalan peculiarities", they demand "that this difference be recognized", they openly advocate a "plurinational federalism" and because four months ago they formally requested a pardon for the promoters of 1-O understanding that "it is much more useful for all Catalans out of jail."

His stay in prison "contributes to a very powerful mobilization of the pro-independence electorate", says the leader of the party that he directs together with

Josep Ramon Bosch

, former president of the Catalan Civil Society.

“We are challenging the decree although, if the appeal is successful, it may prevent us from running for the May elections.

But we assume it because our main obligation is to guarantee democracy at this time from outside the institutions, "continues Barrio, while denying recourse on behalf of the PSC:" That theory, taking into account what it would mean for us, has no path ».

Certainly, all the options of entering the Parliament in the next legislature seem ruled out for the Lliga.

The lists for 14-F are already closed and the PSC has threatened to appeal the modification of the candidacies if the elections end up being held on May 30, which means that it could not integrate Lliga candidates in supposed payment for their appeal before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia.

Barrio assumes its role as a forward against the suspension of the Catalan elections and urges the PSC to "appeal to the Central Electoral Board" considering "that it is a more effective way" only explorable for parties that were going to go to the elections.

"But it has a complicated position, an important dilemma, because that would be a declaration of war at a time when the PSC is going to need a lot of consensus if it wants to go ahead with its plans to govern the Generalitat," he points out.

Neighborhood also spurs Ciudadanos and PP to follow in their footsteps.

"It is absolutely unacceptable that this happens without the opposition parties challenge and that they, who have become guarantors of the rule of law, accept a decree that suspends democracy in Catalonia from total arbitrariness."

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