The political year 2021-2022, now over, was free of elections, and the three main pro-independence parties used this lull to rethink their respective roadmaps. Republican Left of Catalonia approved its new political strategy in March at a national conference; Together for Catalonia (JxCat) did so even more recently at its July congress. The People's Unity Candidacy (CUP) has not yet finished its congress, but, as advanced by ARA, its national secretariat is already working with a draft that gives a heavy hint of where they will be heading. Comparing all three proposals, the institutional independence movement does not give any sign of being able to resume a certain unitary course after the holidays. Neither in the field of the Independence bid, nor in the field of day-to-day politics.

No to independence (48%) remains above yes (44%) in the latest Barometer of the Centre d'Estudis d'Opinió (CEO), which has increased its questions on the subject. For example, to determine what support for an agreed solution is, either to achieve an independent state or to remain within Spain. 60% of Catalans prefer this option: half of them hope to build an independent Catalonia and the other half for Catalonia to remain part of Spain. Only 11% of those in favour of independence defend unilateralism, while 9% of the unionists consider that there should not be any negotiation.

Recovering the unity of action to force the State to lift the veto on the referendum and put an end to repression. This is, one year after the elections of February 14, Catalan president Pere Aragonès's recipe in the face of the division of the pro-independence majority and the Spanish government's procrastination in dealing with the political conflict. Before more than 400 guests in the oval room of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), the leader of the Catalan Government has delivered a speech in which he admitted that the dialogue is in a moment of "blockage" and has called for "cohesion" within the independence movement to activate "all the mechanisms of pressure" against the State. The objective: "To make amnesty and self-determination inevitable".

Article by Grup Pròleg*