The clear agreement for a referendum, more than the management of the drought, is becoming the main source of discrepancies between the Government and the parliamentary groups. Only ERC and the commons support a mechanism that aims to forge the rules of the game for an agreed referendum proposal. Junts, like the CUP, opposes it. The Government needs your support, but tired as the Catalan Executive is of formulas such as "its is not an agreement of clarity, but of brevity" and of the refusal of the post-convergents, the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagra, has put the finger on the wound and reminded JxCat that its MEPs -Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí- are promoting a law of clarity in the European Union for Catalonia and other European territories with sovereignty movements.
Vilagrà has criticized, thus, that while in Catalonia they reject the Catalan proposal for a clarity agreement, in the Union they are part of a pressure group, the Caucus, which calls for a reform that contemplates a law like the Canadian one: "In the European Parliament, the groups, yours and mine, are working for a law of clarity: Democratic European Mechanism for Clarity, signed by its MEPs”.
"The Canadian Clarity Act concerning the French-speaking province of Quebec is a precedent that could inspire the EU to define its own European democratic clarity mechanism," reads the founding text.
The group to which the councilor refers has been constituted for a year and a half and among the nine founding members are Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí. It is still fully active and usually meets in the European Parliament once a month, the last ones being on December 15, 2022, January 24, February 28 and March 21, 2023. Most of them meet technical teams of parliamentary groups.
Be that as it may, Vilagrà has responded to Mònica Sales, spokesperson for the Junts parliamentary group, who had reproached the Government that its initiative was "born dead". In addition, he has affirmed that the proposal for a clarity agreement -which the commons first put on the table- "is a great blockade" that "plays with the hopes of the citizens". And he has regretted that he "feeds" from the Government. Likewise, he has considered that the council of nine experts has a "curious" composition, in reference to its supposed transversality.
In her turn, the minister has accused Junts of seeking independence "looking at herself", of speaking only "for the most convinced" and of not having a proposal to reach an alternative to the clarity agreement for an agreed referendum. "This is not how independence is made," she remarked.
Vilagrà has not stopped here and has recalled that Esquerra was next to the presidents of the Generalitat de Junts in the consultation of November 9, 2014 and the unilateral referendum of October 1, 2017, in contrast to the present, when Aragonès it does not have the support of the post-convergents. "Confront outside the independence movement. Do not make the wrong adversary," the minister has reproached the Junts spokesperson.
