The act was intended to be unitary and, contrary to the demonstration organized by the ANC on the occasion of the last Diada of September 11, leaders of all the independence parties, including ERC, took part in it. However, neither in the speeches nor among the attendees was there any sign of unity: everyone appealed to the unity spirit that made 1-O possible, but they differed in their recipes, while boos from ERC leaders – Marta Rovira, being mentioned by one of the presenters of the act, and Carme Forcadell – attempted to be thwarted by applause from another part of the concentrates.

The lack of a common plan to unify efforts as in 2017 was highlighted by the institutional message that the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, offered on the occasion of the five years of 1-O, who called for unity around his proposal to reach a referendum protected by a “clarity agreement”, the so-called Canadian way. Exactly yesterday this path was criticized in Parliament, when a motion for a resolution was rejected, which was only supported by the ERC and the House of Commons, a vote which was used to dismiss the MP for Junts Francesc de Dalmases in response to Aragonès, whom he accused of “lack of respect for the sovereignty of Parliament”.

“If there’s anything that’s the antithesis of October 1, it’s the clarity deal,” former president Quim Torra said on Twitter. In the act at the Arc de Triomf, the speeches were opened by the President of Parliament during the 1-O, Carme Forcadell, of the ERC, who was booed by some of the participants. “We need a common strategy. Stop fighting, complaining. Let’s forget the blame and work together for a new opportunity,” Forcadell said, visibly uncomfortable, before adding, “We can’t win if we face each other instead of facing the state together.” The schism between the strategies of ERC and JxCat was highlighted with the telematic final speech of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, who threatened Aragonès to overwhelm the government if he does not advance in the process Without explicitly quoting Aragonès, he called on “those who today have the responsibility” of the Government to “put themselves at the service of what we decided five years ago, which is now”.

It is, he said, a challenge that the Council for the Republic -the para-institutional space headed by the Belgian Puigdemont- “intends to carry out, in case someone gets lost and, once he would have taken our votes, we would never see him again”. “If progress is not made in the direction marked by the legal, democratic and binding referendum, the Council for the Republic has an obligation to take the lead,” he warned. main entities of civil sovereignty, such as the ANC, Òmnium Cultural or the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), were marked by the incessant cries of “resignation from the government” of the participants, who according to the organizers went to 60,000. With this climate of fracture within the independence movement, tomorrow Sunday is the last day that JxCat has given itself a margin to try to find an agreement with Aragonès to redirect its crisis, before the Junts militancy decides in consultation, on the 6 and 7 October, on whether or not to leave the government. It is not expected that an agreement will be reached in extremis, since the document of conditions that JxCat transferred yesterday Friday to Aragonès is unaffordable for the president.