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In this

Catalan

cul de sac

that are the 14-F elections, where the candidates jump from obvious to obvious, from promise to deception, hoping that election night will not turn into their particular Waterloo, Esquerra Republicana has recovered the

Josep Lluís Carod Rovira's

old aspiration to

deceive the voters of the metropolitan area, mostly Spanish-speaking and working class, with an independence movement that camouflages its identity essence, its stale nationalism, through

of a cataract of social proposals, in what is still a contradiction to the essence of the independence process, which in its prodigious decade has socially broken Catalonia and has condemned its popular classes to job and economic precariousness, but it is also a betrayal of Carlistón conservatism, of humid sacristy that Oriol Junqueras carries in his DNA. ERC's strategic commitment to brighten his speech with social democratic verb and score and manual multiculturalism, following in the wake of the "independence movement in Castilian" proposed by Carod and It has in

Gabriel Ruffian

his standard-bearer, is explained by the republican need to differentiate JxCat.

Once ERC has resigned, in part due to the imprisonment of Junqueras and the flight of

Marta Rovira

, to beat in radicalism and Trumpist populism the hosts of

Carles puigdemont

.

In addition, it allows them to gradually pay the ground so that none of their voters allege surprise, or ignorance, when they reissue the tripartite government with the PSC and the commons of

Ada Colau

The only formula of government that, no matter how much hpy the socialist

Salvador Illa

, would allow Junqueras to kill in Puigdemont -a Shakespearean obsession- and turn the republicans into the hegemonic party of Catalan nationalism.

The new

pal de paller

political and social (axis and base) that was the Convergence of

Jordi Pujol

, father of the country and still a benchmark of Catalan sovereignty despite corruption and corruption.

While the socialists are guaranteed to step on the carpets of the Generalitat again and a few years of peace to

Pedro Sanchez

in Congress The tripartite is, therefore, the most plausible arrival station, according to the polls, although that commissioned candidate who is

Pere Aragonès

is strategically showing only the paw of his true intentions, ensuring that after the prediction at the polls he will propose "a government pact to the commons and the CUP."

The 14-F ERC disputes with JxCat the primacy in the nationalist space and with the PSC something more important: to be the formation that remains ahead and, therefore, to take over the presidency and handle of the new Catalan government. corny claim to be the party of the people - its motto for 14-F is "Beside the people" -, ERC wants to penetrate into metropolitan voting grounds traditionally dominated by Citizens and PSC, with the purpose of "broadening the base" , once they have verified that despite the institutional and highly subsidized propaganda, separatism does not manage to exceed 50% of the votes. "Only we can win them in Badalona, ​​Sant Adrià, to overthrow the eternal majorities of the socialists, we are, for they see us as their great rival, "declared Junqueras this Monday at a ceremony in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, a socialist bastion.

"The 14-F is about who faces social reconstruction," added Aragonès. The republican resignation to its traditional nationalist discourse and its transformism into a social democratic party makes all the sense in the current socio-political context of Catalonia, where the demographic studies indicate that, Despite being one of the most affluent regions in Spain, the sociological center-right space has been reduced by a third in recent years (partly due to the link between conservative ideology nationalism and Spanishism). , day by day, in a way that is sometimes more subtle, other times more direct, ERC is defending Catalonia's right to self-determination for supposed earthly issues: the improvement of wages, public benefits, respect for minorities ... the unilateral path that JxCat continues to support and to hold a referendum in the coming years.

One way, as Junqueras affirms in his speeches / homilies, to consolidate a social majority that allows them to overwhelm the State when they decide to strike the next coup.

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