The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, proposed to the hemicycle an “agreement of democratic clarity” with the State, like the one concluded in Canada, to try to ensure that Catalonia can vote during his mandate in the an “effective referendum”. “An agreement that identifies when and how Catalonia will be able to exercise the right to decide again. How Canada and Quebec did it,” he defended himself.

“The greater the consensus, the more strength Catalonia will have in its negotiation with the state and in the eyes of the international community. This is the fastest way to vote again, because it starts from the lessons of the autumn 2017,” he said. said. manifest.

Aragonés said that “today there is a large majority of Catalans who want to decide their future by referendum”. “We must end the repression and pave the way for the holding of an effective referendum,” he stressed.

“The referendum where everyone feels called to participate, the separatists as well as the no; the referendum where all the parties recognize the result and the will of the citizens can be implemented; and the referendum that gathers all the legitimacy in the eyes of the international community,” he said.

This proposal by the President of the Generalitat comes after the suspended President of Parliament and leader of the Junts, Laura Borràs, said in an interview with TV3 that “the referendum is already done, it is the one on 1-O, it is a mandate to be implemented”.