The president confirms his absence amid criticism of the ANC for planning 9/11 against the nationalist parties and not against the State
The one that was presented as the Day of discord will also end up being the day of absences. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, will not participate this year in the pro-independence demonstration organized by the ANC and Òmnium Cultural on the occasion of 9/11. Aragonès had been plucking the daisy for days and has finally decided to stand up the nationalist entities, as sources from his environment confirmed yesterday, based on the argument that he does not consider it coherent to go to a protest that this year puts the focus of criticism on the Catalan independence parties and in the Government and not against the Spanish State. The president of the ANC, in Ara, affirmed that the absence of the president shows that she does not want to complete the secession. “We are not going against anyone, but we do not endorse autonomy,” she said.
Aragonès did participate last year, the first time he attended as president of the Generalitat, and he did so together with the leadership of his party, surrounded by advisers and highly protected by security. There were whistles, boos and insults. Junqueras, who had been pardoned a few months earlier, also received his share. There is a part of the independence movement that considers that Aragonès, the Government and ERC have renounced secession. They accuse them of having surrendered through the dialogue table.
The absence of the head of the Catalan Executive is further proof of the tense climate in the movement and of the enormous division. There is a fracture between ERC and Junts and in the Government. There is within Junts, between the institutional independence movement and that of the street. Aragonès’s announcement comes in the midst of the conflict between ERC_ and Junts over the Borràs case and days after the postconvergents launched an ultimatum for him to set course for secession and threatened to leave the government.
Junts’ response to the sit-in was to mark its own profile and announce that all its advisers in the Catalan Government will be at the demonstration. Just like the two party leaders, Laura Borràs and Jordi Turull. ERC, faced with criticism, stepped in and also confirmed its presence, but for now only with Carme Forcadell. “We would like anyone who organizes a demonstration to do so in favor of independence and not against the independentists,” the Republicans reproached. In the CUP they are still not very clear if they will attend. At the moment, they have joined an alternative call. The political leaders who attend, however, will do so in the third row (as decided by the ANC in 2019) and without the right to intervene in the final parliaments.
The motto of this year’s Diada event, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, is “Let’s go back to win. Independence”. The ANC “regrets the inaction of the parties for having abandoned the road to independence.” And he presses, setting a timetable for secession (2025) and claims the strength of the people as the “only one who can liberate the country.” “We must go ahead of the parties if they continue without making independence effective,” warns the ANC.
The anti-party and anti-political character that a part of the independence movement has adopted, which sees in the formations a brake on its aspirations, is what leads Aragonès not to attend the demonstration, but he will lead the institutional acts.
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Then there is the political calculation. He earned little going, because the starters were going to take the whistle against him. The most radical independence movement was preparing a trap for him. This sector has already boycotted the act of homage to the victims of the Ramblas attack. Last year, he heard boos and insults and the tense climate invites us to think that this year the anger could be greater. He is not, in any case, the first pro-independence president to be absent from the appointment that gauges the temperature of the pro-independence movement. Artur Mas caused dismissal in all the Diadas while he was chief of the Executive (from 12 to 15).
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