The ANC approves statute reform and shows critics the way out.

BarcelonaThe ANC leadership has gotten its way. The leadership, led by Lluís Llach, wanted to reform the statutes to prevent the critical sector from continuing to block Decision-making and the election of officials, and the members have validated the modification with 73% support, according to ARA. The endorsement of the management, which required a two-thirds vote, is incontestable: 2,496 members voted in favor of the reform and only 859 voted against it. Participation, however, was very low.

The mobilization of the dissident sector, which promoted a manifesto to stop the changes, has been of no use. Nor has the call to overturn the new regulations by former president Elisenda Paluzie and secretary Josep Costa, who already hinted through the social network X that if the reform is approved, he could end up leaving the secretariat, as many of the members of the management aligned with this current have already done.

The Assembly thus opens a new era in which some of its founding principles are being relegated. The two-thirds requirement for electing an organic position is eliminated, the door is opened for former national secretaries to be reelected, and the entity is prevented from participating in an electoral campaign. In this sense, the new statutes stipulate that the ANC will remain independent of any electoral option and that, furthermore, it "will not promote, encourage, or be involved in, nor will it present itself, either directly or indirectly, in any type of election."

This last point, however, no longer caused tension for the entity. After the rejection by the minimum Of the members on the civic list, those in favor of running have already given up trying to make the leap to Parliament through the Assembly, and secretaries and former secretaries of the entity have presented a new party, Standing for Independence, to establish itself as an alternative to the "procesismo." With the approval of the reform of the statutes, it is expected that there will be a stampede toward this party of the dissidents who remain in the leadership.

Regarding the election of organizational positions, the members have approved that they can be elected only by a majority of votes if, after two rounds of voting, they have not obtained the support of the 65% of the national secretaries required until now. This is a qualified majority, compared to the twenty or so critical secretaries out of the 64 the organization currently has. Llach's election as president is the singer-songwriter's clearest example.

Another controversial article of the statutes that has been passed is the one that allows national secretaries to run again after two terms, provided they have served the equivalent of four years. The ANC has positioned itself in favor of Junts. The leadership, however, argues that the experience of those who have demonstrated solvency should be leveraged, especially in difficult times for the movement.

The reform of the bylaws has once again brought to light the internal divisions within the Assembly, with criticism and discrediting between government supporters and critics. The letter Llach sent to the entity's members on Sunday urging their approval enraged the opposition because it violated the leadership's neutrality. Former presidents Dolors Feliu and Elisenda Paluzie expressed this view.former Vice President David Fernández and Costa himself.

The leadership has not sat idly by. The most belligerent was the national secretary and former CUP MP, Julià de Jòdar, who directly attacked Paluzie and Costa and the more than 200 signatories of the manifesto calling for a vote against it. "If these 200 signatories of the blockade manifestos had come to Montserrat with the fighting pro-independence activists, we would have numbered 500," he said a few days ago in a message to X, in which he criticized the fact that neither Paluzie nor Costa had joined the demonstration against the visit of King Felipe VI.

Jódar also accused Paluzie of "traveling around the world with an ANC position," referring to his work as a representative of the organization and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) on the UN Human Rights Committee. "And he still has the nerve to side with the blockers, who are promoting an autonomist party!" he added.

Paluzie responded that he works at the University of Glasgow, has been an activist for 35 years, and that on Monday he would represent the ANC at the UN Human Rights Committee, paying his own way to Geneva. These arguments didn't convince Treasurer Jaume Valls, who even urged him to resign. The resounding defeat of the critics, however, paints a picture of a future without dissension in the ANC, with iron control by the ruling party, who from the beginning have made no secret of their desire to rekindle the conflict without integrating them into the leadership.