It intends to conform to a session with the central authorities and this proposal would be the ERC roadmap whether it is ratified by its bases ERC proposes to contemplate that the ‘sure’ to independence has received if there’s a minimal of fifty% participation and 55% at in favor of the síERC proposes that any particular person residing in Catalonia over the age of 16 can vote within the referendum
ERC will submit its dedication to barter a ‘readability settlement’ with the Government of Spain for ratification by the militancy to put the foundations for an independence referendum in Catalonia, within the celebration’s presentation that will probably be voted on January 28 at its congress in Lleida and that will probably be its roadmap for the following 4 years. ERC proposes contemplating that the ‘sure’ to independence has received if there’s a minimal of fifty% participation and 55% in favor of sure.
In its political presentation, ERC is dedicated to bringing the request to carry a referendum to the dialogue desk with the Government and raises the circumstances that, in its opinion, ought to be included within the ‘readability settlement’, for which it opted for the primary time the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, within the General Policy Debate this yr.
The paper is entitled ‘The democratic path of the referendum’ and is articulated in two blocks: a proposal to make doable “the Catalan republic via a referendum”, which they think about to be endorsed by 80% of Catalans, and one other block on good governance, defined the deputy common secretary and ERC spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, in statements to the media.
To open the controversy in Catalonia on the circumstances that the ‘readability settlement’ ought to embody, ERC proposes contemplating that the ‘sure’ to independence has received if there’s a minimal of fifty% participation and 55% in favor of sure.
The instance of Montenegro
Vilalta has highlighted that these have been the thresholds of the independence referendum in Montenegro, which obtained the endorsement of the European establishments, and that “give most legitimacy and a plus of approval on the worldwide stage.”
The referendum query ought to be “clear, like that of the 1-O referendum”, and if the sure wins, a negotiation ought to be opened between the Catalan and central governments with European and worldwide mediation, in accordance with the presentation.
I vote from the age of 16
ERC proposes that any particular person residing in Catalonia over the age of 16 and non-residents with the suitable to vote within the Parliamentary elections can vote within the referendum, just like what occurred in Scotland in 2014.
Party sources stress that it is a proposal to “start to generate debate” concerning the circumstances with different political and social actors with the goal of producing a consensus in Catalonia earlier than transferring the petition to the State.
Criminal Code Reform seeks “results” of an amnesty
The presentation values the fruits of the negotiation with the Government on the battle in Catalonia, amongst which the Republicans spotlight that they’ve “made the PSOE transfer” till they endorse the pardons for these convicted of 1-O and course of the repeal of sedition.
After the reforms of the Criminal Code that search to realize the identical “results” as an amnesty, it’s time to open one other section on the dialogue desk, centered on resolving the political battle; In this section, the Republicans framed the negotiation of the ‘readability settlement’ for the referendum.
“We don’t need to impose the Catalan republic on anybody. What we wish is to have the ability to determine, for residents to make this resolution in a participatory method. A referendum is the utmost expression of the democratic will,” Vilalta has maintained.
However, ERC stresses in its presentation that they won’t hand over “any democratic instrument” that enables Catalans to determine on their future.
Block on Governance
As for post-electoral alliances, on the municipal stage the political paper is dedicated to prioritizing alliances with pro-independence events, however endorses pacts that enable the “excessive proper” to be stopped.
It additionally vindicates the insurance policies of financial, power, feminist, social and democratic sovereignty that ERC has promoted, along with “linguistic and cultural sovereignty important for nationwide development and social cohesion”.
The paper vindicates some initiatives promoted by the Government in these instructions, such because the Hydrogen Valley undertaking, public power, the allow for feminine officers of the Generalitat as a result of gestational grief and menstrual ache, the free Infant 2, or the social protect towards the disaster.
They additionally spotlight the dedication that ERC began from the Government inside the framework of the General State Budgets (PGE) to cease the MAT line, along with the Pacte Nacional per la Llengua, the rules towards 25% judicial of Castilian and the Aina undertaking.
With all these insurance policies on good authorities -the Republicans highlight- ERC seeks to proceed “including majorities” and entice new voters to the Republican undertaking, vindicating its willingness to make helpful politics.
The militants have already got it
The paper was despatched this Monday to ERC associates, who might current amendments that will probably be mentioned on the congress on January 28, together with one other statutory reform “that adapts the celebration’s organizational norm to present occasions” and modifies points methods.
The debate on the papers is the second a part of the ERC congress, which held a primary session in November during which it ratified the celebration’s president, Oriol Junqueras, and the overall secretary, Marta Rovira, in Switzerland.