At the same time that the PSOE and Junts finally announced their agreement for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, a CUP motion was being debated in Parliament that promoted the drafting of a new referendum law during this legislature that would give rise to holding a new consultation binding and unilateral on the independence of Catalonia. But ERC and Junts have distanced themselves from the proposal, alleging, among other things, that “only a referendum agreed with the State and validated internationally can replace the October 1 mandate.”
The motion of the anti-capitalists, presented regarding the plans of President Pere Aragonès to put together a clear agreement for the celebration of this binding and agreed referendum, is not alien to the current political context, dominated by the negotiations of both pro-independence parties with the PSOE to channel the “resolution of the conflict” through political means thanks to several specific agreements, among which is the amnesty for those prosecuted by the process.
In fact, this context has starred in the debate on the CUP motion. ERC and Junts have recalled that the Parliament already approved a referendum law in 2017 that gave way to 1-O, “the most important act of sovereignty in Catalonia in the last 400 years,” according to ERC spokesperson, Jordi Orobig. The same deputy stressed that the problem for Catalonia to achieve independence then was “the lack of international recognition” and that “the context in which we find ourselves means that we have to follow different steps this time, not because those were not legitimate, but because times are different.”
From Junts, spokesperson Mònica Sales emphasized the lack of support for the Government's purpose with the clarity agreement, a proposal that "does not have the support of the Parliament" and was not even included in Aragonès' government program, she recalled. . “We cannot accept an agreement of clarity without the support of the Parliament,” insisted the post-convergent, who vindicated the previous referendum law, the 1-O consultation and the declaration of independence of October 27, all of which was considered illegal by the Constitutional Court.
Junts defends “the validity of 1-O and 27-O and their validity” but “we have always said that only a referendum agreed with the State and validated internationally can replace it,” the spokesperson summarized.
The CUP motion proposed drafting a new self-determination referendum law in the Parliament as a preliminary step to holding this referendum before the end of the current legislature, scheduled for February 2025 at the latest. The drafting of this new law should be the object of the work was a joint drafting presentation in which neither the constitutional nor the statutory framework was taken into account, but ERC and Junts presented amendments that added water to the wine and that were finally rejected by the anti-capitalists.
ERC proposed including the CUP's approach within the framework of the clarity agreement, as one more way among the other five proposed by the report of the Consell Acadèmic per l'Acord de Claredat promoted by the Government and published recently. And Junts disdained the approach because they considered, according to party sources, that “now is not the time to raise these things.”
The former members of the Government have abstained from voting on a motion (the rest of the Catalan Chamber has spoken out against) that has generated controversy. Two parliamentary groups (Vox and Ciudadanos) presented requests for reconsideration of the proposal, which were rejected in all cases, and the socialists supported at least two of these requests which, however, were rejected by the pro-independence majority that prevails in the governing body. of the Catalan Chamber. Ciudadanos even intends to go further by presenting an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court that could lead to some type of reprimand to the independence representation of the Parliament's Board.
