Three months of negotiations, disagreements and misgivings, but from the conviction that the only possible formula for the independence interests was another coalition government, have been reflected in the 46-page document with which ERC and JxCat have agreed to the investiture of
Pere Aragonese
as president of the Generalitat.
A pact in which the two formations warn of their strategic differences, which leads them to establish up to five internal coordination commissions as a firewall against the effects of discrepancies that they themselves consider inevitable.
In addition, it establishes the coordinates of the new route to "build the Republic, which will combine its permanent challenge to the State with a medium-term objective: to prepare a self-determination consultation, which will be reissued and expanded on October 1, starting in 2023; or opt, if the Government of Spain does not accept it, unilaterally.
Unit of Action
The first pages of the Government agreement, negotiated for three months in the Lledoners prison, the residence of
Carles Puigdemont
in Waterloo, and the last weekend as a staging of unity in two rural houses in the north of Catalonia, they focus on reinforcing the "unity of action" of the independence movement. Questioned during the negotiation both by ERC, when in the middle of the negotiation it threatened to govern alone, and by nationalist bases increasingly demobilized when the two parties failed to fulfill their promises. Faced with this moral defeat, republicans and neo-convergents pledge to "take the initiative" and convene the first working meeting to lay the foundations for the constitution of a "great National Agreement for Self-determination" that goes beyond the political parties and "gather strength" from all sensitivities and voices of separatism. All this, from the "unequivocal commitment that from the dialogue and the democratic attack on the State, with the democratic and social confrontation, for which it will be necessary to prepare, if necessary, to be in a position to overcome this attack ".
Collegiate address
The programmatic agreement explains without restrictions or dissimulation the will of ERC and JxCat to continue governing only for those Catalans who feel independent, holding on to the fact that on 14-F they obtained 52% of the votes, and with the final objective of the Catalan Republic . And it points out that "only a self-determination referendum agreed with the State can replace the political mandate of the 1-O referendum." To do this, and aware of their different strategies with which to achieve the common objective of sedition, they agree on what Puigdemont demanded: a collegiate mandate that in form and in practice dilutes the power of the new president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès. The guardianship will be carried out mainly through two bodies: the Council for the Republic, as JxCat wanted from the beginning, and a newly created one,called "Space for Coordination, Consensus and Strategic Direction", in which, in addition to republicans and neo-convergents, the CUP and the separatist entities ANC and Òmnium will sit. Despite this evident submission of the executive power to two bodies of dubious legal reserve, ERC has introduced a verbal lifeline in the agreement by noting that Aragonès will only respond as president for his political actions against "the Parliament, since it is the Chamber that It has given him confidence and represents the will of the citizenry. "ERC has introduced a verbal lifeline in the agreement by noting that Aragonès will only respond as president for his political actions against "the Parliament, since it is the Chamber that has given him confidence and represents the will of the citizenry."ERC has introduced a verbal lifeline in the agreement by noting that Aragonès will only respond as president for his political actions against "the Parliament, since it is the Chamber that has given him confidence and represents the will of the citizenry."
Dialogue table and street threat
Despite JxCat's skepticism, the government pact expresses its willingness to resume the bilateral dialogue table with Pedro Sánchez to negotiate the referendum and the amnesty of the coup prisoners, although without this being sterilely delayed over time. Unlike the previous agreement with the CUP, a period of two years is not set to achieve "the results" that the independence movement expects from its negotiation with the central government, but it does underline that it will be "monitored" periodically by all the separatist forces and "based on this evaluation, the next steps will be decided, including the continuation of the same negotiation process." In this sense, they admit that the negotiation with the State "has enormous difficulties and very limited possibilities of success."Which is why, ERC and JxCat wield the street threat, as it happened in the fall of 2017, noting that it continues "to a citizen mobilization determined to the democratic and civic confrontation."
Concessions to the CUP and promotion of Catalan
In the social field is where the pact offers more concessions to the antisystem of the CUP, the third and essential actor in this government agreement. Among its commitments, the "obligation to incorporate gender clauses in the framework of socially responsible public procurement" stands out, or to move towards a "universal income" and review the "security model" to initiate a purge in the body of the Mossos d'Esquadra. Likewise, they undertake to tighten the measures to support Catalan as the main language of social and institutional use, with a "Pact for the Language that protects, encourages and increases the use of Catalan in all sectors, especially in those with the greatest social impact. and communicative, and among the population ". Thus giving "compliance" to the Cinema Law, "ensuring a greater presence of audiovisual products produced, dubbed or subtitled in Catalan and Occitan ", and promoting the" video game in Catalan ".
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