The Parliament of Catalonia has approved motions in favor of a referendum on independence twenty times. Most since 2012, when the process flooded everything. Self-determination became a political consensus that extended well beyond the pro-independence majority and sometimes concerned more than two-thirds of the plenary session. But all that ended this Thursday, when Parliament buried the referendum for the first time in a decade and rejected one by one all the sovereignist resolutions presented by the parties during the general policy debate.
The majority opposed to the referendum, made up of the PSC, the PP and Vox, proved to be a steamroller which made it clear that the process was now a thing of the past. Junts’ proposal which reaffirmed the right to self-determination and full respect for amnesty fell, as did the ERC text for an agreed referendum, and the same fate befell the “democratic rupture” proposal. of the CUP.
The situation was so catastrophic for the pro-independence narrative that the plenary session even rejected the October 27, 2017 declaration of independence for the first time, as Junts spokesperson Mònica Sales observed. A text which has never been formally repealed and which, during this Thursday’s session, thanks to the ultra Aliança Catalana party which presented it, was explicitly refuted.
In the same vein, the common proposal of the separatists who criticized the fact that the judges were “in rebellion” before the amnesty law was rejected by the decontrol of the CPS, although another of the Commons, more aseptic , was approved, which required application of the law “without further delay”.
Beyond the bloc that calmed the question of independence, the groups were dispersed in the votes, although with an obvious weight of the agreement formed by the PSC, the ERC and the Comuns, the parties already associated to allow the inauguration of Salvador Illa. The most notable agreement of this alliance was that in favor of “single” 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 .
This is not the only proposal that united the parties that Junts already describes as “tripartite investiture”. The Socialists accepted the Commons resolution to raise taxes on gambling so that Hard Rock would be hampered, and they also showed harmony in housing, in favor of regulating gambling. temporary rentals.
