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Pablo Iglesias
, former vice president of the left, and
José María Lassalle
, former secretary of State of the PP Government, have inaugurated a cycle of conferences and debates organized by the Generalitat delegation in Madrid to accompany the work of the dialogue table on Catalonia . Both have debated in the
Blanquerna bookstore
with a pedagogical tone, typical of their status as university professors. Iglesias and Lassalle have agreed that the Government-Generalitat dialogue table opens an opportunity for dialogue to channel what they
both consider a "conflict"
between an important part of Catalan society and the rest of Spain.
"It is not possible that Spanish democracy cannot resolve its conflicts with dialogue," said the former Secretary of State for Culture.
The former vice president pointed out that
PSOE and ERC
are the two actors that should lead the dialogue process and warned that the Prime Minister,
Pedro Sánchez
, is showing little ambition, by going back to the past and hugging
Felipe González
in the last Socialist Congress, despite the fact that he was one of those who shot him down before the primaries. In his opinion, it is necessary to give up the "nostalgic dream" of bipartisanship in order to come to fruition. Lassalle, for his part, warned that at this time there are many sectors of politics that "are comfortable in the conflict", and that there is a high degree of emotion and passion that does not help dialogue in Catalonia, or "loyalty "necessary to channel the conflict. Iglesias replied that politics is marked by passions.
"It is necessary to reduce the emotionality"
, concluded Lassalle.
Both also agreed that some characteristics of this time, such as political polarization and the questioning of the current order, is dangerously similar to the
Weimar Republic
and the interwar period in Europe.
"Be careful not to look into the abyss, because the abyss can look out to us," warned the former PP secretary of state.
Iglesias
regretted that there is "nothing like a strategy"
on the part of the Catalan independence parties, and warned them that "it is very difficult to defeat a state."
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