Nation, nationality, national minority, plurinational State… The various concepts with which we are still trying to recognize and identify the political-social reality of Catalonia re-emerge during the negotiation of the investiture, and not all the actors involved in The conversations have the same idea. After learning that PSOE and Junts are negotiating a possible recognition of Catalonia as a national minority within the framework of an amnesty law, two of the parties involved in the investiture agreement have expressed their rejection.
Catalunya en Comú, the Catalan formation integrated into Sumar, does not like the idea of ??recognizing Catalonia as a national minority within the Spanish State, and in ERC they directly disdain the debate. The discussion is not with the Republicans.
The common people consider that this category is excessively “identitarian”, since in Europe it is associated “in terms of religion, language or ethnicity.” They advocate the recognition of Catalonia as a nation within a plurinational State.
“We don’t like the idea of ??a national minority,” spokesperson Joan Mena said yesterday at a press conference, “neither as a term nor as a concept,” because “it does not recognize the Catalonia of a single people that we have always defended.”
The concept of a national minority within the Spanish State that is the focus of part of the investiture negotiations, advanced by La Vanguardia, would fit into the legal debate on the protection of certain communities within the European Union, but it is also linked to the judicial battle being waged former president Carles Puigdemont in Europe, where he defends the systematic violation of the rights and freedoms of the Catalan people as a national minority.
Another issue that is discussed for the investiture agreement is the election of a mediator to verify compliance with the agreements that are signed. For the common people, this figure “is not essential”, although they are committed to agreeing on a mechanism that fulfills the same function.
Yesterday ERC did not want to enter into this latest debate, although the experts’ report on the clarity agreement also judges that the figure of a rapporteur “is not essential.” Nor did he delve into the concept of national minority. The party’s spokesperson, Raquel Sans, limited herself to stating that she “feels comfortable” with the statement that Catalonia “is a nation”, without commenting one bit on a terminology, that of national minority, which is on a table of negotiation of which ERC is not part.
“We will not go into evaluating it. From ERC we approach this negotiation with the maximum possible discretion and we understand that each person plays their own role,” Sans stressed.
The Republicans maintain amnesty, self-determination and social welfare as conditions for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. However, they disgrace Junts that, in their opinion, they limit themselves to negotiating the amnesty, without demanding progress in the other two folders.
