Independence seeks its path in the Catalonia of Illa | News from Catalonia

Monday, May 13, 2024 was one of the most bitter days in the history of Catalan independence. After the adrenaline of a black electoral night, where Salvador Illa (PSC) won, the domes of the matches journal the damage. Secessionism stayed seven seats from 68 The absolute majority that had sustained Proces. Junts per Catalunya, nor with Carles Puigdemont as a candidate, had achieved victory. Esquerra had lost the Generalitat, leaving 13 seats. The CUP was saved from sharing the Mixed Group with the Ultra de Aliança Catalan (AC) – Debutants in the Chamber – thanks to the instrumental assignment of a Republican deputy. All wrong.

A year later, both political independence as the associative They are still immersed in the search for how to fight The official pass speech that Illa repeats every day. Institutional calm after convulsive years seems to penetrate citizens and deactivates secessionism.

The last barometer of the center d’Estudis d’Enfició, (CEO), showed in February the historical minimum of support for secession: 37.6% in favor and 54.1% against. All that No budgets in the Generalitat and supporting daily railways Despite the works to update it, but seeing how social venues return as the criteria.

The formulas to find that new momentum of onslaught with the State, which since the failure of 2017 has become the Holy Grail IndependentThey are diverse. Flapped and numb, the movement is still collected. ERC, Junts and the CUP have completed their internal re -foundation processes in this year, with different recipes to seek gap in the new sociological and political reality. They have also done so, although with more chaotic outcome, The Catalan National Assembly – in the middle of a hard interim struggle– And the Consell of the Republic – without Puigdemont in front.

« A year later the consequence of the disunity of independence is seen, » says Junts spokesman Josep Rius, a party that last October elected Puigdemont as its president. The first opposition group aspires to be the option to what it sees as the commitment of « denationalization of Catalonia » that, says Illa in the Generalitat and Jaume Collboni in Barcelona.

Rius asserts that his party has not stopped working to recover the independence majority, but not only that. This weekend, for example, made their municipal conference in Vic, in a clear objective of redeaching a party that had cemented its growth in the national flag. It is not surprising that there the issue of immigration and security had a lot of weight. Behind ideas such as hardening to the register, for example, Rius adds, there is an attempt to apply « common sense » to the immigration challenge to win that battle at the polls to AC, to which the CEO shows how its threat.

The fleeting return of Puigdemont, coinciding with the investiture of Illa, was a blow of short fleece effect and, beyond the political proposal, Juns suffers from a face that embodies an effective opposition to Illa. Waiting for justice to decide on amnestyhe Expresident He squeezes his status from one of the referees of the Legislature of Pedro Sánchez, but remaining every time with fewer pressure letters that do not imply the breakup.

In Congress, the confrontation between Junts and ERC is bread of each plenary. Meanwhile, in the Parliament, the relationship is colder and more distant, although without criticizing that ERC tries the strategy of the stick and the carrot with Illa. A path that was blessed in the political presentation of the Republicans, approved after the re -election of Junqueras, in December.

Republicans, in fact, are immersed in the choice of regional domes. Precisely, the Catalan elections last year were the trigger for the schism between Junqueras and the environment of what was his general secretary, Marta Rovira. Junqueras, with one hand, tries to lay the game and with another laid the margarita of your political options if amnesty is finally applied.

ERC puts 2031 as the year to recover the independence majority In institutions and on the street. He expects success in the municipal elections, something that depends on whether he manages to leave with his in the new model of regional financing and the transfer of Rodalies, the Republicans are waiting for Illa to move in one of the commitments of the investiture: the creation of the National Convention for the resolution of the political conflict.

Finally, the CUP takes a chest of being the only game in this block that has made The exercise of renewing leadership. « It is obvious that we have lost the parliamentary majority, but as CUP and as an independence left we believe that as a movement we cannot put all letters there, » says Blai Taberner, a member of the National Secretariat of Formation. The CUP believes that what now touches is introspection, building from below a proposal from the fair country, articulating with the territorial claims to grow to « popular independence. »