Barcelona, December 13 (EFE).- The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, plans to initiate contacts in the coming weeks to start “shaping” his proposal for a referendum agreed with the State in 2024, an approach that has planned to define by means of a clarity agreement, the so-called Canadian way.
The year 2022 will culminate with several agreements between the Government and the Generalitat in the diversion case, which will practically close with the repeal of sedition and the reform of the crime of embezzlement as main achievements.
Although the Catalan executive and the ERC continue to insist that the last page of this file must be an amnesty, the government is preparing in 2024 to tackle another file in the process of dialogue with the State, which focuses on trying to agree on an independence referendum with the government of Pedro Sánchez.
The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, will initiate contacts in the coming weeks with various Catalan political, social, trade union and economic agents to promote a “clarity agreement” following the path of Canada, when the government in Ottawa approved a law in the 2000s set the precise conditions for a referendum on Quebec independence, after two previous consultations in 1980 and 1995.
On September 27, Aragonès explained that this clarity agreement would come after an internal debate in Catalonia, and would then be transferred to negotiation with the Spanish state.
Yesterday, ERC already announced its formula for this hypothetical agreement referendum, based on the Montenegrin model: a minimum of 50% participation and 55% yes to independence; a roadmap that the Republican bases must validate at the end of January anyway.
However, government spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez guaranteed this Tuesday that “no self-determination referendum will take place”, because it is “unconstitutional”, and expressed her rejection “with absolute clarity” to this Esquerra’s proposal.
Another spokeswoman, in this case of the government, Patricia Plaja, ironically replied to Rodríguez that the government was already initially opposed to the opening of a dialogue table, to pardons or to the modification of the Penal Code, but ended up giving in.
“This government is convinced that Catalonia will vote again in a referendum, he said. We have a negotiating table and we will make this referendum a reality”.
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