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The fiction of democratic and social normality in Catalonia, in a sort of

pax sanchista

that needs to keep the Government alive until 14-F so that the

Illa operation

does not remain naked in its contradictions, was violated this Thursday at the beginning of the electoral campaign with the umpteenth separatist challenge to the State, after the Government of the Generalitat decided to bring the coup prisoners into the fray, granting them a third degree that contravenes the indications of the Prosecutor's Office -which is going to appeal the measure- and the Supreme Court .

This maneuver by JxCat and ERC, which will allow some leaders of the

procés such

as Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull or Carme Forcadell to participate in rallies and celebrations, and which was celebrated by Pablo Iglesias as the "best news for democracy", is an attempt to deny the "end of the

process

" that Moncloa announces with such fervor.

As he also wants to agitate with the dialectic of the conflict with the State an electoral appointment that can register record numbers of abstention.

Out of fear and discouragement after a year of the coronavirus pandemic, which has revealed the mismanagement of the Government of the Generalitat, uniting in its criticism the hospitality, sports and culture sectors.

But also, by a feeling of political disaffection that affects both the independentists and the constitutionalists.

To the former, because they see the promised advent of the Catalan republic increasingly distant.

Independence is beginning to be accepted as a chimera, no matter how much they manage to retain the majority in Parliament after 14-F.

In the second, when observing how the same people who starred in the 2017 coup will hardly stop having both feet in the Generalitat, either with the reissue of the government alliance between JxCat and ERC or through a tripartite formed by Republicans, Socialists and the

commons

of Ada Colau.

Pedro Sánchez and the PSC candidate for the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, this Thursday, in Barcelona.

Sánchez: "I want the division to end"

In this context of general discouragement and uncertainty, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has decided to heed the polls and be photographed with Salvador Illa from minute one.

With a message that advocates "dialogue" and that shuns melee with separatism, thinking about future electoral pacts.

"The time has come to turn the page to 10 years of confrontation and division," said Sánchez at the PSC headquarters, defending that the "beginning of the end" of the independence process begins with Illa.

"I want to achieve the reunion of all Catalans, that the division ends and a period of cooperation begins," the PSC candidate reiterated for his part, who has managed to return to socialism, after many years in a secondary role, the favorite condition in elections to the Catalan Parliament.

A psychological asset that allows the PSC to present these elections as a dispute between Illa and the independence movement, between Illa or chaos.

Dialogue in which neither the PP nor Ciudadanos nor Vox would have anything to contribute.

In what is a sort of

symbolic

Tinell Pact

that anticipates the institutional silence to which these parties - "the reactionaries", according to Sánchez, will be condemned - if the tripartite is reissued after 14-F.

Pablo Casado and the PP candidate for the Generalitat, Alejandro Fernández, this Thursday, in Barcelona.

Married: "The tripartite, bargaining chip"

An election that is disputed on two levels.

A strictly Catalan one, where in addition to Illa's options for victory, the nationalist hegemony is settled between JxCat and ERC.

And another level in a national key, which makes it inevitable that a failure of the

Illa operation

will be interpreted as the first great setback for Sánchez at the polls.

How the leadership of Pablo Casado would capsize if

Vox's

surprise

to the PP

is confirmed

, which some polls predict.

The landing in Catalonia of the main national leaders, including the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who will be with

Alejandro Fernández

this Saturday in Barcelona, ​​testifies that on 14-F many more things will be decided than color and the accent of the new government of the Generalitat.

Inés Arrimadas and the candidate of Cs to the Generalitat, Carlos Carrizosa, this Thursday, in Barcelona, ​​EL MUNDO

In his first speech, Pablo Casado warned that the PSC, although it may join with the rest of the constitutionalist parties, will end up reissuing the tripartite so that "Sánchez uses it as a bargaining chip in Madrid to stay in Moncloa."

Meanwhile, the leader of Cs, Inés Arrimadas, warned that a tripartite would reinforce both the

procés

and Sánchez.

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  • Catalan Elections

  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Pablo Casado

  • Inés Arrimadas

  • Salvador Illa

  • PSC

  • PP

  • Citizens

  • Junts per Catalunya

  • ERC

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