"If we now have a government made up of two parties that define themselves as independentists and these two parties break off relations and end up breaking up a coalition government, who is going to believe that independence is serious?" With this rhetorical question, the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas has warned JuntsxCat of the risks that leaving the government of Pere Aragonès would entail for the procés, an option that in recent weeks has gained support within the post-convergence formation.
In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, Mas has said that he understands that leaving the Govern de Junts could be a "real option" and that he respects it politically, but has made it clear that he does not share it because of the consequences it would have on the procés that he himself started ten years ago. For this reason, the former president has warned Junts and the ERC that if the two parties are not capable of maintaining the independence government, the question that must be asked is: who will take us seriously? Is independence a real goal?
Mas has admitted the possibility that at the time an agreement was not reached and the government did not materialize or that Junts' position is demanding in terms of objectives or even that the terms of the agreement were reconsidered, but he has fervently advised against breaking up, since it has already drawn a gloomy panorama for the procés. According to the former leader of the extinct Convergència, he has been lost for a few years without sharing objectives, without a path, with disputed leaderships and a constant give and take between the independence parties. "That makes it very difficult for us to move forward and be credible," Mas lamented.
Ten years after the first mass demonstration of the Diada called by the ANC, Mas, who at the time declined to attend it "to preserve the institutional sense of the presidency of the Generalitat as much as possible", contemplates astonished the "radicalization of the Assembly against political parties". The ANC, which, according to him, was born "solely and exclusively" to achieve the independence of Catalonia, "must know that without the political parties independence will never be achieved". "Only with the parties either but without them neither", he has settled. According to the former president, the ANC's message may please some, but in order to achieve the organization's core objectives, "it is not a good theory."
In any case, Artur Mas, who has announced that this year he will not go to the Diada demonstration for family reasons, has disagreed with the reasons put forward by his successor Pere Aragonès for not attending it. "Those of us who have gone to some demonstrations know that there are times that can make you uncomfortable, but this cannot be the reason to go or stop going to the march," he argued after Aragonès declined to go, considering that it is against political parties. . Today, the president of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has gone further and has accused the current leadership of the ANC of calling for a demonstration against the ERC.
