CATALONIA HAS A NEW SECESSIONIST PRESIDENT
Catalonia has lived a very exiting week
after three months waiting for a new government. The secessionists won the
elections that were held last September, but after a historical victory the
major secessionist party, Junts pel Sí, wasn’t able to convince the far-left
party Candidatures d’Unitat Popular. Both parties had the same goal: the independence
of the Spanish wealthiest region, but they didn’t agree in who the president
should be. The CUP leaders said that they wouldn’t vote for the official candidate
of Junts pel Sí the former president Artur Mas.
Catalan people have been waiting,
especially those who are secessionists, for a definitive agreement. The
secessionists’ parties have been negotiating three long months and it seemed
that new elections would be celebrated, because the CUP took the definitive
decision of voting NO to Artur Mas candidature. Then, the people –probably the
most important element in this political process- didn’t lose their hope and
the parties’ leaders met in the last chance for getting an agreement. They did
it.
President Mas announced that he wouldn’t
be the candidate of Junts pel Sí, unblocking the future government. The new
candidate was the Mayor of Girona, a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Carles
Puigdemont. Finally, the Parliament voted few hours before the ending of the
legal time limit and Catalonia had her first secessionist president. An
historical moment and an advice for the Spanish authorities whore are against
the process. While Spain has no government, the Catalan secessionist process
has become stronger. The European Union has said repeatedly that there was no
possibility of and independence without negotiating with Madrid and, on the
other hand, half of the Catalan inhabitants don’t want the independence. Those
are the principal goals for the new government: international recognition and
convincing a big majority of the Catalan society for the independence.
Àlex Jiménez
2n BTX-A
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