Pere Aragonès has understood that the ERC collapse in Sunday’s elections carries an implicit message: the independence movement is asleep. The high pro-independence abstention has triggered the alarms, not only in the parties, but also in the Government. So today, in an appearance at the Palau de la Generalitat, the president has demanded with all the letters “mobilization” and a “democratic front” before a government of the PP and Vox that has assumed that it is going to settle after the general elections on July 23.

“In the face of a State Government made up of the parties that have attacked Catalonia the most, mobilization is needed.” That he has not given Pedro Sánchez a chance to repeat as president of the Government can only be explained by the need for the independence movement to mobilize his electorate.

“The time is serious and Catalonia must be defended. The government of the right and extreme right represents a frontal attack on the basic pillars and consensus of our country”, Aragonès has come to say. And it is that for the head of the Government, the Catalan school, public health, civil rights, equality, well-being and the economy are in danger, and especially “Catalan institutions and the right to freely choose as a people”.

For the president of the Generalitat, the results of the municipal elections, in which the pro-independence parties left some 350,000 votes compared to those of 2019, are a message “in the form of abstention” addressed to the pro-sovereignty and pro-independence parties. “They tell us that we have to understand each other and we have to do it,” said Aragonès, who interprets that “a new cycle” is opening in which he has considered a dialogue like the one maintained until now with the PSOE government and United We Can impossible.

To understand each other, the Republican considers it essential that a Government and a Parliament “stronger to defend Catalonia with all their might.” So he has opted to replace the president of the Catalan Chamber, Laura Borràs, convicted of prevarication and document forgery, with another pro-independence presidency. But he has also called for “finding new and firm governance stability mechanisms.” In other words, a pact to stabilize the Government that he leads.

However, Aragonès in no case has clarified whether by “common front” or “democratic front” he means the formation of a unitary pro-independence list. The joint candidacy is an idea that Junts launched again yesterday, through its general secretary, Jordi Turull. “It is up to the parties to make proposals,” Aragonès has limited himself to saying. In any case, the post-convergent has considered it so after hearing the appearance: “The president raises things that we have been asking him for a long time and that until now he has not understood. If the rectification proposal to move towards independence is sincere, let’s meet tomorrow.”

However, the joint list does not seem to be in Esqurrea’s plans. It is clear from the words of the deputy general secretary of the republicans, Marta Vilalta, that she has completely ruled it out this morning. She has even ruled out the proposal as “serious and formal”, and that she seeks to “continue with the dynamic of wear”.