WHAT HAS
HAPPENED IN CATALONIA?
This
is an opinion article. So I believe that everybody who reads this knows that
every opinion has to be respected.
To
talk about what has happened during christmas I think that I need to talk about
yhe independence in Catalonia a bit. This is not a new term that has appeared
these last years, more than 100 ago, Catalonia has requested more autonomy to
the central government. The government has always been very close with that and
has never given a chance to talk about that.
So
first Artur Mas, leader of CiU, wanted to have a fiscal covenant and get the
autonomy that Catalonia has been asking for. The government rejected this
proposition and the citizens radicalized more (not only this afected to the
"radicalization", there are more things involved but I'm not going to
explain them all). So CiU grouped with ERC and later on Unió moved away from
this alliance. The coalition between Convergència and ERC was named Junts pel
Si, and wanted the independence, but first asking for a referendum to see if
the citizens of Catalonia really wanted independence.
So
the elections in Catalonia arrived and Junts pel Si won them, but not with
majority, so it tried to pact with CUP, another independentist political party.
But, Junts pel Si wanted Mas to be the president and CUP didn't. So they had to
talk about these pact because if these political parties didn't pact, they
couldn't govern Catalonia.
So
after a lot of time discusing things to make the alliance possible, they made a
deal. Mas wouldn't be the president of the Generalitat and would be Carles
Puigdemont, ho was the mayor of Girona. So that's all that has happened in
Catalonia during Christmas, almost all the time discusing about the terms of
the alliance between JpS and CUP. A fiscal covenant would have been so easy and
not that polemical...
Arnau
Tortosa
2n BATX B
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