A specific ministry for the Catalan language, unique funding for Catalonia, an agreed referendum… Pere Aragonès has started the pre-campaign with intensity and trying to introduce as many inputs as possible in the shortest possible time. Now he has announced that he will return to the Senate to defend a referendum relying on the report of the Institute for Self-Government Studies (IEA) and maintaining that it is possible on the basis of Article 92 of the Constitution.
The majority in the Upper House is from the PP. To flag any initiative, any scenario is good, they emphasize from the Government. Aragonès said it yesterday in other words: “As a pro-independence, Catalan and leftist, trolling the PP always comes in handy”.
As announced by Ser, the president of the Generalitat and national coordinator of ERC will be in the Senate on Monday, in the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities. The session has been convened to study the regional impact of the Amnesty law, which passed through Congress a few weeks ago and which the PP is delaying for approval in the Upper House thanks to its absolute majority.
Aragonès was already in the Senate to defend the amnesty – and incidentally the referendum – in October of last year. It was the first of the interventions and lasted just over ten minutes to maintain that criminal oblivion was “the starting point” for negotiating a referendum, and he left without waiting to hear the rest of the planned parliaments.
In any case, the president has stepped on the accelerator just to start the electoral race, despite the fact that all his proposals made so far, be it own financing, the referendum or the creation of a ministry of the Catalan language, have been rejected by his political opponents. Especially the first two: Moncloa did not take half a second to say no to a vote for self-determination and to assure him that the change in the funding model will be “multilateral”, that is, for all the autonomous communities .
The interview also served for Aragonès to charge against Carles Puigdemont, Junts candidate for the May 12 elections, of whom he said he is not looking for his “institutional restitution”, but rather “personal”.
