The leadership of the ANC knocks down the civic list proposed by its president for the elections

The star proposal approved last year by the militancy of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) to form a civic independence list for the next elections has stalled.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 January 2023 Monday 08:37
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The leadership of the ANC knocks down the civic list proposed by its president for the elections

The star proposal approved last year by the militancy of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) to form a civic independence list for the next elections has stalled. This weekend, its president, Dolors Feliu, took the idea to the plenary session of the secretariat to create a working group to get down to work. she failed. For it to be approved, a third of the votes were necessary, but it only obtained 28 supports, for 29 opinions against it.

The ANC reacted on Sunday night with a statement. He assures that the debate was "rich and intense" and that despite the refusal "the ANC's commitment to the provisions of its roadmap and the civic list is fully valid." In fact, the proposal has not been ruled out yet. It has stopped. The entity affirms that the debate remains open and continues through the commissions, the territorial assemblies and the bases. In any case, it will be the militancy who makes the final decision on the candidacy, as indicated by the Assemblea.

The rejection is a setback for Feliu, who on several occasions has used the civic list as a battering ram against divisions and differences in the independence movement. In the ANC, however, there are those who maintain that a new candidacy could further divide the independence vote and they recall the failure of similar options in the past, such as the Primàries de Catalunya, a candidacy that had its origins in the Assembly and which it did not manage to obtain. representation in the elections for Parliament on February 14, 2021. He only got 0.21% of the votes. In 2019, when it was presented for the municipal elections, there were only 26 councilors who achieved more than 9,000 at stake throughout Catalonia.

ERC has reacted to this momentary failure, since the Republicans consider that the entity has played against them for months. The party's spokeswoman, Marta Vilalta, has stated that this is a "symptom that not everyone agrees with the drift of the current leadership", which she believes works to wear down instead of adding, in her words.

"It is a symptom of this criticism of the internal drift within the ANC of working to divide instead of building. We liked that ANC better, which served to add, to build, to try to unite and favor consensus," as his The trial took place when the former president of the Parliament, Carme Forcadell, presided over it.