The Parliament of Catalonia has approved motions in favor of a referendum on independence on twenty occasions. Most of them since 2012, when the process flooded everything. Self-determination became a political consensus that went far beyond the pro-independence majority and sometimes included more than two-thirds of the plenary session. But all that ended this Thursday, when the Parliament buried the referendum for the first time in a decade and rejected one by one all the sovereigntist resolutions presented by the parties in the general policy debate.
The majority opposed to the referendum, made up of PSC, PP and Vox, has turned out to be a steamroller that has made it clear that the process is, now, a thing of the past. The Junts proposal that reiterated the right to self-determination and full compliance with the amnesty has fallen, as has the ERC text for an agreed referendum, and the same fate has befallen the proposal for a “democratic rupture” of the CUP.
The situation has been so catastrophic for the independence narrative that the plenary session has even rejected for the first time the declaration of independence of October 27, 2017, as observed by Junts spokesperson, Mònica Sales. A text that had never been formally censored (although it had not been officially published either), and that in this Thursday’s session, thanks to the ultra Aliança Catalana party that presented it, has been explicitly refuted.
Along the same lines, the joint proposal of the independentists that criticized the fact that the judges were “in rebellion” before the amnesty law has been rejected by the unchecking of the PSC, although another of the Comuns, more aseptic, has been approved, which demanded an application of the law “without further delay.”
Beyond the bloc that has appeased the independence issue, the groups have been promiscuous in the votes, although with a clear weight of the entente formed by PSC, ERC and Comuns, the parties that already associated to allow the investiture of Salvador Illa. The most notable agreement of this alliance has been the one in favor of “unique” financing for Catalonia, which has just marked the commitment expressed by the Government with this measure demanded by Esquerra to sit down to negotiate the budgets.
It has not been the only proposal that has united the parties that Junts already calls “tripartite of the investiture.” The socialists have accepted the resolution of the Commons that calls for increasing taxes on gambling, in such a way that the Hard Rock is hindered, and they have also shown harmony in housing, in favor of the regulation of temporary rentals.
Source: www.eldiario.es
