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  • Politics Ministers Montero and Subirats defend a referendum in Catalonia to change "the structure of the State"

Although avoided, the territorial issue is hidden in the Government's agenda. The purpose of La Moncloa to take the territorial conflict out of focus has managed to reduce its protagonism, but Catalonia continues to demand a referendum. In the presidential complex they do not contemplate it and, in fact, they distance themselves from the claim of sectors of United We Can that a consultation be held in this community. "The

procés

was left far behind," they say in La Moncloa.

One of the great political bets of Pedro Sánchez was to try to deflate the Catalan conflict. For this, he decided to assume the cost of recovering the dialogue table and granting pardons to the leaders of the

procés

. What the President of the Government does not contemplate is a referendum. Not even a "consultation on a change in the structure of the State", as Joan Subirats, Minister of Universities and the sphere of United We Can, pointed out just a few days ago.

In La Moncloa they insist that their dialogue with the Generalitat will be "within the framework of the Constitution and the law". "When there is a consultation, it will be a consultation on agreements [at the dialogue table]. We are not going to transfer to society the responsibility of doing something that corresponds to politics," said Isabel Rodríguez, government spokesperson and minister of Territorial Policy.

Once it was visualized that the institutional relationship between the Government and the Generalitat was being resumed, the PSOE opted to end the

procés

.

The time of the referendum had passed, also that of the judicialization of the conflict, it is the moment of dialogue, the socialists maintained.

"Catalan society is not in that scenario," Rodríguez has argued about a referendum.

"2017 is far behind."

"We do not share independence"

Rodríguez was the government representative who attended an act by Pere Aragonés, president of the Generalitat, in Madrid a few days ago, in which, among other things, he vindicated the referendum and pointed to the right of self-determination as something "inevitable".

In the Government, in the socialist sector, they insist that it is a red line.

"We do not share the political position of independence. In the scope of the Constitution and the law they will find us," says Rodríguez, who strives to convey that what he says is the position of the Government.

Since it was decided to recover the dialogue table, the Government has contemplated that Catalan citizens could vote in a consultation on the agreement that, if it occurs, is reached in that forum.

The political measures or decisions that the Executive and the Generalitat could agree on.

There is yes, they see margin and they see possibilities.

But not in lighting a kind of new secessionist consultation.

In any case, the government's commitment remains to let the Catalan conflict hibernate.

The decision to freeze a new meeting of the dialogue table is part of this strategy, which the secessionists are pressing to meet now.

The government agenda

La Moncloa wants to give absolute priority to economic recovery, the management of European funds and overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic.

They do not want to open the door for issues that cover this government action to be introduced into the political agenda, as, for example, has happened with the crisis caused by the statements of the Minister of Consumption, Albert Garzón, on livestock.

What will meet in the coming weeks will be the Generalitat-State Bilateral Commission, which is where economic and competence transfers are negotiated.

The Government spokeswoman,

Patrícia Plaja

, has announced that she will meet in Barcelona between the end of January and the beginning of February.

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