• 28-M Results of the municipal and regional elections 2023
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With astonishing clarity yesterday Pere Aragonès took for granted the irreversible decline of Sanchismo and, consequently, the end of government concessions to Catalan independence. The president of the Generalitat appeared at the Palau in an extraordinary way to assess the derivatives of the municipal elections, but rather seemed to be analyzing in advance the consequences of the triumph of the center-right in the general elections of next July 23.

Aragonès granted the condition of consummated reality to an eventual Government between the PP and Vox and admitted that with that Executive in La Moncloa it will be "impossible" to maintain the bilateral negotiation with the State that allowed secessionism to obtain the pardon to the separatist leaders who organized the 1-O or the reform of the Penal Code to eliminate the crime of sedition. "We are in a new scenario," he acknowledged.

Aragonès' strategy to survive the two years of the legislature that still lie ahead of him is crumbling, since he had trusted his entire story to the need to keep alive the separatist conversation with the Government through his latest occurrence: a pact of clarity to the Canadian to agree with the State the conditions of a legal and internationally homologable referendum. The president had even commissioned a group of experts to design the foundations of this new separatist vote, which he now considers truncated.

Government sources specify that the Sanhedrin of Aragonès maintains its academic work for now, but that the president will hardly transfer his results to the rest of the Catalan parties, as he intended, before the imminence of the generals.

After drawing up a record of the political death of Pedro Sánchez in a brief institutional intervention, Aragonès sees the need to promote the reunification of the independence movement to internally seek the support that he will now lack in Madrid. To achieve this, the president called yesterday to form a "common pro-independence front" that "defends Catalonia" and safeguards the main axes of the nationalist project, that is "the Catalan institutions", "the right to decide the political future of Catalonia" and "the language", or what is the same monolingualism in Catalan.

Aragonès has inferred that, after losing more than 350,000 votes in the 28-M -of which 302,000 belonged to ERC-, the pro-independence voter asks his parties to "understand" and abandon the deep disagreements that now separate them.

However, the president of the Generalitat avoided clarifying yesterday if ERC would be willing to go to the polls with a single separatist list as proposed on Monday by the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull. "It is up to the parties to work on the formulas and the fit to make it possible," he limited himself to saying.

The pretended reunion of the independence movement will also imply the end of the pacts between ERC and the PSC, which gave birth to the approval of the Budgets of the Generalitat. Aragonès asked yesterday "to form pro-independence alliances in the City Councils", which makes it even more difficult for ERC to support the maneuver of the Catalan Socialists to anoint Jaume Collboni mayor of Barcelona, instead of Xavier Trias, the most voted candidate last Sunday.

The president of the Generalitat, who favored the departure of Junts from the Government, is now forced to retreat and try to reestablish the relationship between the independence forces to which he turned his back to prioritize understanding with the PSC and the commons.

The first major agreement that Aragonès will have to address – apart from a possible common strategy for the general elections – will be the replacement of Laura Borràs as president of the Parliament for her conviction of corruption. ERC will be forced to accept the name that the neoconvergents impose on it and the list includes two candidates very close to Carles Puigdemont, the former mayors of Vic and Girona Anna Erra and Marta Madrenas.

"Let's meet, let's meet again, but for independence, of course," warned the fugitive yesterday, who warned of the opportunity for Junts to recover the leadership of the separatist cause.

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