In a campaign that has revolved around the future of the coup prisoners and possible government pacts, a document from a hitherto unknown independentist group, with just 500 followers on Twitter and headquarters in a municipal gym, which was signed by all The separatist parties with the commitment not to reach any agreement with the PSC, has served to give a last boost to the candidacy of Salvador Illa, when it began to show signs of weakness in the polls.

And to advance the photograph of a scenario of possible blockade after 14-F if the independence movement does not obtain an absolute majority, this sanitary cordon of doubtful application, since the ERC candidate, Pere Aragonès, did not sign it, dismantles the message of "democratic normality" that Pedro Sánchez has transferred in his speeches during the campaign, presenting the 14-F as a turning point in the political and economic situation in Catalonia. Everything points to the fact that the dynamic of blocs that governs Catalan politics, from that all the parties signed the Tinell Pact against the PP, will remain in force. The "beginning of a new stage of dialogue and reunion" promised by Sánchez is on the way to perishing like so many empty campaign slogans, as the correlation remains intact after the elections. of forces between the independence movement and constitutionalism, and a situation of institutional blockade of difficult solution, with eight parties ruffled in the Parliament, which would push Catalonia to a

Electoral repetition. The strategists of each formation begin to prepare, admit in private, for a few months in the trench that precede a new clash at the polls.

"We consider that the most likely option to vote again," says a PSC deputy, who believes that the tripartite will not add due to the personal and political distances that the campaign has opened between socialists and ERC, and that in nationalism it will not have an absolute majority the 14-F to reissue the Government JxCat and ERC. This scenario of ungovernability could favor Illa, according to socialist sources, insofar as it would highlight that it is the "only option that offers stability."

In this sense, they believe that something similar could happen with the repetition of the last general elections, which allowed Sánchez to destroy Ciudadanos, retiring Albert Rivera early, and soften Pablo Iglesias and the leadership of Podemos so that he could sign The government pact. While waiting to see which parties will be the most harmed by an abstention that ventures historic, all the pressures fall on ERC, the party that would hold the key to the future government of the Generalitat. The Republicans are reluctant to do so. to Laura Borràs president, and to re-assume the role of subordinates in a coalition government with JxCat (a formation that climbs in the last minute polls and points to the winner of 14-F), renouncing his old aspiration to become the hegemonic party of the new Catalan nationalism;

But they are not considering facilitating the inauguration of the socialist candidate with their votes. Borras yesterday delved into ERC's doubts and questioned whether his veto of the Socialists has real value.

"Credibility is treasured or not based on what one says and does. We are told that it is impossible to agree with the PSOE, but in Madrid whenever you have had to choose between PSOE or JxCat, Sánchez has been chosen", affirmed the JxCat candidate, ignoring that they govern the Barcelona council with the PSC. In her reply, Aragonès tried to settle the debate, in which the 300 thousand pro-independence voters who doubt their vote on 14-F emerge in the background, ensuring that between "the PSOE and Catalonia we always choose Catalonia".

While Illa took advantage of the veto, false or not, to equate the decision of the independence movement with the "photo of Columbus."

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