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The reunion between the President of the Government,

Pedro Sánchez

, and the President of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonès

, this Friday in Moncloa showed that the main element that puts pressure on the strategic alliance between the PSOE and the ERC is to find a formula to make what the independence movement calls the "dejudicialization" of Catalan politics.

That is to say, greater shielding against legal action for nationalist parties and activists -to apply, for example, linguistic immersion in schools-, and an agreement that allows those who have fled justice in Belgium, with

Carles Puigdemont

at the head , return to Catalonia with the certainty that they will not go to jail.

The ERC's intention is to prevent Puigdemont from being able to regain legitimacy as the leader of the independence movement that he has been losing with his "exile" in Waterloo, for which he trusts, after yesterday's talk between the two presidents, that his negotiation with the Government prevent the JxCat leader from ending up on trial in Spain.

"Puigdemont will not return. Sánchez will find a way out, he is of interest to everyone," Govern sources assure.

In his appointment with Sánchez, Aragonès urged him so that, at the next meeting of the bilateral negotiation table, concrete measures on "dejudicialization" are already agreed upon and that allow a normal relationship between the two governments to be restored.

Clouded for three months by the controversy of espionage to independence leaders with the Pegasus tool.

"There must be results," warned Aragonès, who in the press conference after his interview with Sánchez underlined the request that he has put on the table: a general amnesty for the Catalan separatists.

Without ruling out, as a second option, the pardon for those who fled to Belgium.

CRIMINAL CODE REFORM

However, these are not the only options that ERC has put on the table.

In the meeting a few weeks ago that the Minister of the Presidency,

Laura Vilagrà

, held in Barcelona with the Minister of the Presidency,

Félix Bolaños

, expressed her interest in addressing the reform of the crime of sedition in the Penal Code, lowering its current prison sentences.

Another request is that he withdraw from the multiple open cases against pro-independence leaders.

The opinion of the general lawyer of the EU Court, endorsing the European orders issued by the Supreme Court magistrate

Pablo Llarena

for the extradition of the

procés

leaders who fled to Belgium, returns Puigdemont to the Catalan debate and reinforces the urgency that the Republicans have to extract from the Government a concrete agreement that puts an end to "the repression of the State".

Puigdemont's return to Spain to stand trial, if the CJEU finally follows the doctrine of his prosecutor and removes his parliamentary immunity, would put Aragonès in the position of deciding whether to align himself with his partners in Catalonia, since JxCat will require him to immediately break any type of dialogue with the central government and reactivate the insurrectionary path in the institutions and on the streets.

Or continue embracing Sánchez and forced, if he does not want to go to elections with the most radical independence movement against him, to take a strategic swerve to form a tripartite government with the PSC and the Comunes of

Ada Colau

.

The treatment that the Republicans aspire to with the Government would affect all the convicted and prosecuted nationalist leaders, for which it would also benefit

Laura Borràs

, president of the Parliament and of JxCat.

To whom the prosecution asks for six years in prison for splitting contracts with a friend.

Borràs's refusal to leave his post at the head of the Catalan Chamber, as required by the internal regulations, has brought the coalition of ERC and JxCat to the brink of rupture due to the resistance of the Republicans to consider it a victim of the State.

Like the possible return of Puigdemont, this conflict threatens to blow up the government when the oral trial begins next year.

One difficulty for ERC in its fight with JxCat is that Borràs has the close support of her party, she has recently been appointed president with high support, and of activism: the Òmnium Cultural entity has placed her on the list of 4,200 independentists "retaliated " for Spain.

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