Llach is pushing for a reform of the statutes to corner the critical sector of the ANC.

BarcelonaLluís Llach has said enough. On the last Saturday of April, the ANC leadership approved, in an extraordinary plenary session, the partial modification of the entity's statutes and internal regulations to prevent the critical sector from imposing its views and continuing to put obstacles in the way of the organization's members' approval over the last few terms. So much so that a fourteenth of the critical sector's secretaries have challenged the statute reform process because they argue that it was activated by the permanent committee without the endorsement of the national secretariat. The ANC is not a party to the statutes, nor does it support a candidate for the elections, as advocated by the former leadership headed by Dolors Feliu, and which the members rejected. by the minimumFearing that the civic list will be put back on the table due to the paralysis of the Process, the leadership wants the statutes to prevent the Assembly from launching an electoral campaign at all costs. The proposed wording, to which ARA has had access, stipulates that the ANC will remain independent of any electoral option and that, furthermore, "it will not promote, instigate, or get involved in it, nor will it present itself, either directly or indirectly, in any type of election."

However, it opens the door for it to eventually do so, but with a much steeper path than that followed with the civic list. First, approval by two-thirds of the national secretaries present at a plenary session would be required, and then the current membership would have to be ratified by a referendum requiring a qualified majority of 65% of the votes, and not a simple majority as is the case now. Furthermore, during the campaign, the leadership should offer equal visibility to both options to avoid a repeat of what happened with the civic list, when its detractors complained that they could not campaign for a "no" vote. "Today, the only person maintaining the civic list debate within the Assembly is President Lluís Llach. No one else is talking about it, nor do we intend to continue talking about it," the critics complain, considering it merely "a weapon and an excuse for, precisely, not working for the unity of the entity."

Breaking the two-thirds rule

The statutes are also intended to be amended to overcome the blockade that has so far prevented the election of the new secretary to replace the secretary who left office in December. The proposal seeks to change the point that establishes that an organic position must be elected with the support of two-thirds of the national secretaries present and to agree that, if after two votes, no candidate reaches two-thirds, a majority of the votes will be sufficient. The two-thirds rule seeks to achieve consensus in the election of the entity's leaders, but the open war between government supporters and critics perpetuates the blockade because the leadership does not have enough support to achieve a qualified majority.

Another article of the statutes that they want to amended is the limitation of national secretaries to two terms so that they can run again as long as they have let the equivalent of four years elapse, the duration of two terms. Critics point out that it is inconsistent with the approved roadmap, which calls for a change in political leadership, and warn that the goal is to provide a landing strip for former ANC founders who have positioned themselves in favor of Junts. "If we follow a party that has become autonomist, this could lead to our organization becoming an appendage, a kind of activist branch or a group for the party's senior members," they argue. Internal fractures are once again surfacing in the Assembly.