Junqueras is booed within the pro-independence demonstration shouting “traitor”, a picture that phases the shortage of unity between ERC, Junts and the CUPSánchez proclaims that the Constitution is fulfilled in Catalonia and compares the pro-independence demonstration with the one this Saturday in Madrid in opposition to His GovernmentPere Aragonès, who averted listening to the nationwide anthems of Spain and France, warns Sánchez that the ‘procés’ has not ended
The Spanish-French summit in Barcelona, past strengthening cooperation between the 2 international locations as a lot as doable, has served to confirm that the independence motion is fragmented and subsequently weakened and that Pedro Sánchez is dedicated to his coverage of deinflammation in Catalonia till the top . The president has exhibited the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed with Emmanuel Macron within the metropolis of Barcelona as successful of his technique of dialogue for coexistence regardless of the warnings from the road and from Pere Aragonès that the method isn’t lifeless as he maintains Moncloa.
The pro-sovereignty demonstration referred to as by greater than 30 associations to demand independence and remind the Government that the battle has not ended introduced collectively 1000’s of individuals however had nothing to do with the huge marches of different instances. What’s extra, the picture that has remained of that protest is the one which ERC wished to keep away from in any respect prices, that of its chief Oriol Junqueras booed shouting “traitor, we would like you in jail.”
It is the picture of the division, particularly painful for the politician who stood up after 1-O, was tried, convicted and ended up in jail. Those who rebuked him shouted that Carles Puigdemont, who fled the nation and is on the run from justice, is its president. It is the staging of the shortage of unity within the independence motion although the three large events (ERC, Junts and the CUP) participated within the march.
The balances of Aragonès
The worst was suffered by Junqueras however essentially the most troublesome function was for the president of the Generalitat who needed to make a posh steadiness between his institutional function and his want for independence. He measured every of his gestures. He went to the start of the summit to greet Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron, spoke for a couple of minutes alone with the President of the Government and left with out listening to the nationwide anthems of Spain and France.
Those minutes served to inform Sánchez head to head that “the independence course of has not completed.” Later he repeated it once more in an look: “The political battle has not ended, regardless of what will be stated by the State Government.” It was there that he claimed as soon as once more that one of the best answer is a referendum acknowledged by all events.
That is a crimson line for Moncloa that it has flatly rejected from the outset. The Government has parked for the second the dialogue desk between the 2 administrations to keep away from being splashed once more by the Catalan query within the midst of the pre-campaign for the municipal and regional elections on May 28.
Institutional normalization
Sánchez, on the press convention with the President of the French Republic, didn’t need something to spoil his celebration and devoted himself to promoting the “success” of a “historic” summit for bilateral relations.
The president downplayed Aragonès’ rudeness by not staying to hearken to the nationwide anthems, though he did admit that he would have favored him to take part in all the ceremony. He thanked him at the very least for receiving the delegations, one thing that the president of Galicia, the favored Alfonso Rueda, didn’t do, for instance, a couple of months in the past on the Spanish-German summit.
Moncloa made an effort to convey a message of normalcy and averted criticism. ERC has been and is a precedence accomplice for the Government in Congress and is a key celebration for Sánchez, like different investiture companions, if he needs to proceed in Moncloa after the overall elections in December. It have to be borne in thoughts that the riskiest selections of Sánchez’s time period have been calls for from Esquerra such because the granting of pardons or now the elimination of sedition and the discount of embezzlement.
The president wished to have a particular gesture with Barcelona. In his opinion, the numerous investments introduced in Barcelona “have lots to do with the dedication to coexistence and concord.” He additionally made a fiery protection of Europeanism and the vanguard of the Catalan capital and proclaimed that for years he has complained “rightly” that the State Government has not dedicated to it.
Sánchez wished to reduce the significance of the pro-independence demonstration and equated it with the one which this Saturday is known as in Madrid to protest its insurance policies -especially the reform of the Penal Code- and in favor of “Spain, democracy and the Constitution”. Santiago Abascal might be there however not Alberto Núñez Feijóo who needs to keep away from that picture in full pressure with Vox over the abortion controversy in Castilla y León.
For the president, the social majority of the nation is in the course of these two protests. A central house that represents a Spain united in its variety, which, in his opinion, is acknowledged by the 1978 Constitution. For the president, the Magna Carta permits peaceable demonstrations to defend beliefs that go in opposition to him.
“The vital factor is that as we speak the Constitution is fulfilled in Catalonia,” emphasised Sánchez, as in different territories of Spain. It was his response to the notices of the independentistas concerning the course of. It is the message that the Executive repeats to distinction that the Catalonia of this 2023 has nothing to do with that of 2017, when independence was declared and an unlawful referendum was organized beneath the Government of Mariano Rajoy with Catalan society break up in two.