The independence movement marks its political agenda for the beginning of an autumn in which they will be key to deciding if Pedro Sánchez manages to govern or if there will be new elections in January. On the sixth anniversary of the illegal referendum of October 1, the leaders of ERC and Junts have marked their position for the negotiations. An amnesty is not enough, they want to vote for independence.
The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has asked this Sunday for unity among the independence movement to make a new referendum a reality whose result will be “respected and implemented”. He said this in an institutional statement on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of 1-O from Fonollosa (Barcelona), a municipality in which the Civil Guard acted to prevent the vote..
“We will do it with all the conviction, looking for the meeting point that we must be able to build,” he stated.. He has pointed out that the amnesty is necessary to “complete the end of the repression and to end the persecution of the independence movement”, but he has assured that, by itself, it does not resolve the political conflict.. “If the Government really wants to resolve the sovereignty conflict with Catalonia, it must listen to and address the broad, transversal and majority demand in Catalonia” for a referendum, he said..
Junqueras defends 1-O
The president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, stated this Sunday on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of 1-O that he will not renounce the right to vote and has defended “the legacy and presence of that democratic feat”.
“On October 1, 2017, we were able to exercise a fundamental right that we will never renounce, one of the most fundamental democratic rights: the right to vote,” he stated on the social network 'X'..
Puigdemont calls for unity
The leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, has written a message in which he assures that October 1 was “a victory”, but that “it is not yet a complete victory”. On October 1, 2017, says Puigdemont, “we showed that it was possible thanks to unity, the leadership of the institutions and civil, democratic and non-violent mobilization”. Departing from this formula, says the former president from Waterloo, “takes us away from victory”. “We can highlight our disagreements (…), but we are moving away from the formula with which we won,” he says..
The day of September 11 commemorates a defeat. The one of October 1, a victory. Neither defeat was definitive, nor victory is yet complete. We know how we have resisted for three centuries, and we know what elements make up the victory of six years ago. They all depend on us.… pic.twitter.com/dsL2ZRvcD9
— krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont (@KRLS) October 1, 2023
The ANC calls for elections
That unity that Puigdemont calls for has not been reflected, since one of the two main pro-independence parties, the ANC, previously very close to the pro-independence parties, continues its divergent line. The president of the entity, Dolors Feliu, demanded this Sunday that the Government call elections “if it does not dare to do” independence in the event that Congress approves an amnesty law.
“If the Government and this Parliament, with 52% of pro-independence votes, do not dare to do so or do not want to, let them call elections and give voice to a free Parliament, chosen by a people thirsty for freedom. Let them call elections if they do not want to do so. independence”, he demanded at the event that the independence entity has called in Plaza Urquinaona in Barcelona on the sixth anniversary of 1-O.
For Feliu, independence must be achieved from Catalonia, so “if there is an amnesty law in Congress, the same day it is approved, independence must resonate in the Parliament.”