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ERC wants to drag United We can to shore up its pressure strategy and force the Government to agree to a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia.

After the election results of February 14, Gabriel Rufián took advantage of the platform of Congress on Wednesday to launch a call to constitute a "broad front" in the Parliament in which, in addition to the Junts and the CUP, the

commons

also participate

, so that Together they act as a lever to force Pedro Sánchez to raise this query.

The ERC deputy had to defend a motion that demanded a referendum agreed with the Government, however, he preferred to defend it implicitly to concentrate all his intervention on appealing to an agreement between "the 82 deputies who are unequivocally in favor of a political solution discussed and agreed ".

The ERC parliamentary spokesman claimed that on Sunday "a" speech "and its" strategy "within the independence movement were reinforced and that it is ERC as the" winning "force of the bloc that has to" assume the leadership of that majority. "

Thus, Gabriel Rufián declared that the objective is to bring together "all the self-determining leftists", which includes the

commons

, the United We Can brand in Catalonia.

"We are not anyone's servants"

"We add like never before, that forces us and mandates us and condemns us to understand each other," Rufián said about the independence movement, although he calls to widen the space of ERC, Junts and the CUP by configuring that "broad front" with Podemos, in order to proclaim that "We are not anyone's servants."

In a criticism of Junts, Rufián called for a "new cycle" and a "new horizon" so that part of the independence movement is not "ethnicist".

"Let it not be said that the son of an Andalusian is a settler, never again against anyone", because, he added, "ethnicism is ethnicism regardless of the country that is held in your heart."

The motion to negotiate an agreed referendum will not be approved by Congress because the PSOE, PP, Vox and Ciudadanos will vote against it.

United We can abstain this Thursday, when the vote is taken.

The debate revealed the cracks and tensions in the independence movement between ERC and Junts.

The spokeswoman for the latter party,

Miriam Nogueras

, put pressure on her partners saying that they are expectant about whether they will assume "the clear mandate" of the polls for the sake of secession.

Junts and the CUP

In an analysis different from that of Rufián, Nogueras said that on Sunday "the way of standing up, the uncomplexed way, the way of having just dropped his pants was more than supported" before those who reject the referendum.

For the deputy of Junts there was a "technical tie" and although she did ask to agree, she demanded to go towards the "necessary survival, that is, independence."

Along the same lines, the CUP pointed out that the presentation of the motion means that the dialogue table "has not worked," and it made ERC ugly to continue talking with those who treat them "badly" like the PSOE or abstain like Podemos.

The fourth actor appealed by Rufián, Unidas Podemos, had a bitter confrontation with the ERC deputy over the criticism leveled against them for "fueling fascism" or the imprisonment of rapper

Pablo Hasel

.

"Apart from Twitter, which is very good, they have the BOE. Tweeting when you can legislate is not solidarity, it is cynicism," Rufián had told him.

Jaume Asens

stirred in his turn against those words.

"Anti-repression lessons, none," he said.

We can ask "to become independent from Junts"

The

purple

spokesman

called on ERC to run a left-wing government in Catalonia without Carles Puigdemont's party.

"Before independence from Spain, it must become independent from the Junts", he stressed, invoking that the path is "a clear majority of the left" with the PSC.

From its position against the referendum, the PSOE reproached ERC for his motion setting the condition of an agreed referendum and regretted that the agreement of two weeks ago to resume the dialogue table without red lines or demands was being questioned.

José Zaragoza

questioned ERC telling him that the PSOE will be in the "dialogue" and that this is what can solve the problem, not the referendum.

In this way, he called to

stop the sanitary cords

against his party in Catalonia and to allow the "reunion" of society.

The position of the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos was much more forceful and totally against a referendum.

While the PNV will support the motion and argued that there may be one in the Basque Country at some point.

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