With astonishing clarity yesterday Pere Aragonès took for granted the irreversible decline of sanchismo and, consequently, the end of government concessions to the Catalan independence movement. The president of the Generalitat appeared in the Palau in an extraordinary way to assess the derivatives of the municipal elections, but rather seemed to be analyzing in advance the consequences of the victory of the center-right in the general elections on July 23.

Aragonès granted the condition of consummated reality to a possible government between the PP and Vox and admitted that with that Executive in La Moncloa it will be “impossible” to maintain the bilateral negotiation with the State that allowed secessionism to obtain pardon for the separatist leaders who organized the 1-O or the reform of the Penal Code to eliminate the crime of sedition. “We are in a new scenario,” he acknowledged.

Aragonès's strategy to survive the two years of his legislature that still lie ahead is crumbling, since he had entrusted his entire story to the need to keep the separatist conversation with the Government alive through his latest occurrence: a pact of clarity to the Canadian to agree with the State on the conditions of a legal and internationally comparable referendum. The president had even commissioned a group of experts to design the foundations of that new separatist vote, which he now considers truncated.

Government sources specify that the Sanhedrin of Aragonès maintains his academic work for now, but that the president will hardly transfer his results to the rest of the Catalan parties, as he intended, given the imminence of the general elections.

After drawing up the political death certificate of Pedro Sánchez in a brief institutional intervention, Aragonès sees the need to promote the reunification of the independence movement to internally seek the support that he will now lack in Madrid. To achieve this, the president called yesterday to form a “common pro-independence front” that “defends Catalonia” and safeguards the main axes of the nationalist project, that is, “Catalan institutions”, “the right to decide the political future of Catalonia” and ” la lengua”, or what amounts to the same thing, monolingualism in Catalan.

Aragonès has inferred that, after losing more than 350,000 votes on 28-M -of which 302,000 belonged to ERC-, the pro-independence voter asks their parties to “understand each other” and abandon the deep disagreements that now separate them.

However, the president of the Generalitat avoided clarifying yesterday if ERC would be willing to go to the polls with a single separatist list as proposed on Monday by the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull. “It is up to the parties to work on the formulas and the fit to make it possible,” he limited himself to stating.

The alleged reunion of the independence movement will also imply the end of the pacts between the ERC and the PSC, which led to the approval of the Budgets of the Generalitat. Aragonès asked yesterday to “form pro-independence alliances in the Town Halls”, which makes it even more difficult for ERC to support the maneuver of the Catalan socialists to anoint Jaume Collboni mayor of Barcelona, instead of Xavier Trias, the candidate with the most votes last Sunday.

The president of the Generalitat, who favored the departure of Junts from the Government, is now forced to back down and try to reestablish the relationship between the pro-independence forces to which he turned his back to prioritize understanding with the PSC and the commons.

The first major agreement that Aragonès will have to address -apart from a possible common strategy for the generals- will be the replacement of Laura Borràs as president of the Parliament for her conviction of corruption. ERC will be forced to accept the name that the neo-convergents impose on it and two candidates very similar to Carles Puigdemont appear on the list, the former mayors of Vic and Girona Anna Erra and Marta Madrenas.

“Let's meet, meet again, but for independence, of course,” the fugitive warned yesterday, who warned of the opportunity for Junts to recover the leadership of the separatist cause.