The president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu, has urged to declare independence in Parliament on the same day that Congress approves the amnesty. "If they don't dare, elections," she snapped. Several hundred people gathered this Sunday at noon called by the ANC to commemorate the six years since 1-O.
The demonstration began with a political event in Plaza Urquinaona, the epicenter of the protests against the procés ruling, and ended in Plaza Sant Jaume. In the middle they made a stop in front of the Via Laietana police station, where they threw miniature ballot boxes and referendum ballots. The activists have also thrown the portraits of Pedro Sánchez, Felipe VI, Mariano Rajoy and Judge Manuel Marchena into a burned container.
About a thousand people, according to the Urban Guard, attended the ANC event for the sixth anniversary of 1-O, which started with a political event in Urquinaona Square. From there, Dolors Feliu has put pressure on the pro-independence parties, urging them to declare independence: "The same day that the amnesty law is approved in Congress, the word independence must resonate in Parliament. And if they do not dare to do so, to call elections."
The same week that the Parliament held the general policy debate, Feliu focused his criticism on the independence parties. "How is it that the word independence does not appear in the resolution that has been approved? Where is our Parliament and our representatives," asked the civil leader. And she added: "It seems to me that they are in Congress negotiating I don't know what. Let them come here, because independence must be done here; in Parliament and not in Congress." She has warned that, without recognition of self-determination, the amnesty will be a "trap to whitewash the Spanish State."
"We do not want more supposed historical moments, nor historical pacts," charged the president of the Assembly. "The only thing we want is independence. Neither historical pact, nor historical 'mandanga'," she concluded.
Activists and victims of reprisals have also participated in the political event, such as Marcel Vivet, Julia Balas and Nacho Pallàs. Vivet, who was accused by the Generalitat and convicted for participating in a demonstration against Jusapol, has charged against the Mossos: "The Spanish police, which includes the autonomous policy of Catalonia, throw us out of the house, from the streets and they coexist sympathetically with the fascism. Independence must be theirs too."
In Plaza Urquinaona there has been a first symbolic gesture. The four speakers launched, in a burned container, the reproaches of King Felipe VI, President Pedro Sánchez, former President Mariano Rajoy and Judge Manuel Marchena.
Once the political event was over, the thousand protesters began a march along Via Laietana to the Plaza de Sant Jaume. Before finishing the tour, they stopped in front of the Higher Headquarters of the National Police Corps (CNP). There, as they had been instructed by the organization, they threw miniature ballot boxes and ballots from the 1-O referendum. The building was protected by City Hall fences and escorted, on the side streets, by agents from the Mossos d'Esquadra and the CNP.
The ANC demonstration ended at half past twelve in the Plaza de Sant Jaume in the Catalan capital, where those gathered shouted "the Spanish flag out" and left the posters that had been distributed to them: "Independence or elections."
