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ERC is running into enormous difficulties to justify before the independence movement that the "removal of judicial proceedings" agreed with the Government of Pedro Sánchez is going to achieve the expected objectives.

Beyond depriving the State of the necessary tools to prevent this new attack on territorial unity that separatism stubbornly promises to attack again as soon as it has been rearmed, the weaknesses found by Judge Pablo Llarena to prevent the free return of Carles Puigdemont threaten with imminent derivatives that would dismantle the Republican argument, no longer before his former partners and always opponents of Junts, but before his own party militancy.

That, after his disqualification, Oriol Junqueras is not immediately rehabilitated in order to return to the political front line can be assumed by the formation because it does not particularly alter their plans: the president of ERC will continue to lead the

process

and display his revolutionary vision while Pere Aragonès will consolidates in the presidency of the Generalitat and displays a more institutional role.

The division of powers that one and the other will stage at the Spanish-French summit this Thursday proves it and will continue.

But how would the Republican cadres simply swallow the eventual imprisonment of their most recent martyrs: that of the architects of 1-O,

Josep Maria Jové

and

Lluís Salvadó

?

How could Aragonès continue to defend the usefulness of the negotiating table, of the granite alliance with Sánchez's PSOE, if two of Junqueras' most faithful fighters in that inflamed autumn of 2017 face a harsh prison sentence even after the secessionist redesign? of

the Penal Code

?

"The objective of de-judicialization is that no one else enters jail and that exile returns," Aragonès proclaimed in September, shortly before the last concession of the Executive to sovereignty was forged.

Brains of the illegal referendum

The start of the trial against the masterminds of the illegal referendum -those responsible for plotting the leap of autonomy to the Catalan State and its financing- is on hold after the

Prosecutor

's Office requested more time from

the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia

( TSJC) to present the indictment before the changes in the criminal classification of the crime of embezzlement that both are attributed for the preparations for

1-O

.

Jové, now president of ERC in Parliament and an eminent member of the negotiating table with the Government, and Salvadó, repositioned as president of the strategic Port of Barcelona with a salary of

115,000 euros

after the break with the Government, are still waiting to find out how many years of prison are exposed after Llarena kept intact the prosecution of Puigdemont for a crime of aggravated embezzlement - which carries up to

12 years in prison and 20 years of disqualification

- and could influence the position of the Prosecutor's Office in the process against Junqueras' lieutenants .

Llarena considered it "unfeasible" for the organization of 1-O to fit into the current article of the Penal Code that determines that "the authority or public official who gives public property to be administered a different public application from the one for which it was intended will incur the prison sentences of one to four years and special disqualification from employment or public office of two to six years.

She does not believe that in the case of Puigdemont the public patrimony was applied "for a public purpose different from that for which it was intended", but rather to an illegal act.

The same one in which Jové and Salvadó participated decisively.

According to the investigating judge, Jové, the owner of that Moleskine in which each new step towards "disconnection" was meticulously noted, "knew and authorized certain expenses to carry out the illegal referendum" in an amount greater than

2.1 million

holding the position of Secretary General of the Department of Vice-Presidency and Economy of the Generalitat.

"All expenses should have been supervised by Mr. Jové, in his capacity as coordinator of the referendum," he adds.

While Salvadó -also famous for his macho advice for the selection of personnel- spent more than

1.2 million

in the planning of the Catalan Treasury, or in the words of the magistrate, in the program with which he proposed "to achieve the control of state taxes and social contributions from autonomous public institutions and fiscal information of taxpayers.

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