More sovereign disintegration than ever: eight lists and no common roadmap

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Roger Mateos (EFE) | Three years and four months after the unilateral 1-O referendum, Catalan sovereignty is presented to the February 14 elections more disintegrated than ever, divided into eight candidates, worn down by internal fights and without a unified roadmap to focus the next steps of the 'process'. These are the options that will battle for the sovereignty vote on February 14: JXCAT-ERC: NUTHENTH PULSE FOR HEGEMONY On January 29, 2020, after the president of the Parliament, Roger Torrent , complied with the court order and left him without a seat after his disqualification, the then president Quim Torra declared the unity between members of the Government broken and announced elections. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has forced JxCat and ERC to coexist for another year, but the internal squabbles have been constant, accompanied by a progressive strategic distancing: while Oriol Junqueras sponsors from the.

Lledoners prison a possibilist turn and a dialogue with the State, Carles Puigdemont prescribes from Belgium "confrontation" and a unilateral route to complete the process towards the "Catalan republic" that ran aground in 2017. If sovereignty gains an absolute majority again, the presidency will fall to the pro-independence force Belgium Mobile Number List that garners the most support: the vice president of the Government and ERC candidate for the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès , a trusted man of Junqueras, is fighting with the effective candidate of JxCat, Laura Borràs , unilateralist and close to Torra. Demòcrates de Catalunya, a pro-independence split from the extinct Unió, has changed allies in these elections: dissatisfied with the pragmatism of ERC, it has now joined the JxCat lists.



Last September, JxCat's political space split in two: the PDeCAT , the heir to the former CDC, embarked on its own path, raising the flag of moderate independence, disagreeing with Puigdemont's confrontational strategy. Former councilor Àngels Chacón , then expelled from the Government by decision of Torra, will try to overcome the barrier of 3% of the votes to obtain representation, with the discreet support of former president Artur Mas and the involvement of the former leader of Unió Joana Ortega , signed as number two of the candidacy for Barcelona. The ex-convergent world presents a third list, with little chance of winning seats: Marta Pascal , former general coordinator of the PDeCAT, broke with her old party last spring and founded the Partit Nacionalista de Catalunya , a voice of moderate sovereignty that asks to turn the page on the ' process' The.