While the socialist members of the Government assure that there will be no referendum on self-determination in Catalonia, "neither agreed nor unilateral", in the words of Minister Félix Bolaños, the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, the podemita Ione Belarra, has considered that it is " perfectly legitimate" to bring it up at a negotiating table and it will have to be discussed.
In the midst of the process in Congress of the reform of the Penal Code to eliminate sedition and reform embezzlement, Esquerra Republicana raised on Monday in its political presentation for the party congress the conditions of a future referendum, which should be agreed with the State through a clarity agreement and which would include the formula of Montenegro: a minimum of 50% participation and 55% yes. And its president, Oriol Junqueras, yesterday defended all the democratic ways to achieve independence, from which he did not exclude the unilateral one because it is "perfectly democratic."
Yesterday, the proposal of the Republicans was immediately rejected by the Government, which saw the ERC agenda as "contrary to the Constitution". In this regard, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, warned that no referendum will be held, "neither agreed nor unilateral." Words that were later confirmed by the spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers. "A referendum on self-determination is unconstitutional and will not be held in our country," the Minister of Territorial Policy settled.
"It is perfectly legitimate to make a proposal that is political," however, Minister Belarra and general secretary of Podemos stated this Wednesday in an interview on TVE. "It must be discussed and it is very legitimate to raise it at a negotiating table," the head of Social Rights insisted to ensure that "all proposals will be discussed as it cannot be otherwise."
In any case, Belarra has warned that it is still "early to address this issue" and has opted not to anticipate events when asked about the conditions of this consultation and has wanted to value "the path traveled up to here" from the "problem " who, in his opinion, left the PP in 2017 because they did not want to sit down and talk and did not want to understand "a multi-national, diverse country in which all territories have to feel represented and heard." "Now we are in a better situation," the minister concluded, referring to the pardons and the reform of the Penal Code.
On the other hand, Belarra's statements coincide with that of the PSC leader, Salvador Illa, in an interview with El Confidencial in which he pointed out that there will be no "self-determination" in Catalonia, but there will be a "consultation with the Catalans" if it is reached. to an agreement on how to organize the “self-government of Catalonia”.
In this regard, the ERC spokesman in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, assured this Wednesday that it is "good news that the PSOE finally says the proposal it has" for Catalonia "because that way we will be able to confront proposals."
