It is a new historic day in Parliament (it has been 90 years since an ERC candidate ran for investiture), but the feeling is that, compared to 2017, the mood has dropped a lot. In the street, barely six people with esteladas, and inside, Nacho Martín Blanco (Cs) routinely asks for the floor to protest against the delegated vote of Lluís Puig. Laura Borràs does not have to make much effort to cut him off. The tension between Carlos Carrizosa and Carme Forcadell is far away, and the slow tone of the president of the Parliament contributes to this general drowsiness.

"The results of 14-F are clear", Pere Aragonès repeated as he responded to the parliamentary groups in his investiture debate. So clear that the only viable option to form a Government, once the crossed vetoes are discounted, is through an agreement between ERC, JxCat and the CUP. This Friday, however, the Auditorium of the Catalan Parliament, the same one where on October 10, 2017 the pro-independence MPs signed the commitment to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, became another space to publicly express their divergences. To the point that the president of the JxCat group, Albert Batet, asked Aragonès to no longer submit to a second vote - yesterday he lost the first - on Tuesday: "We formally ask him to renounce to the second vote until there is a pro-independence agreement". "He knows that there is no time to reach a good agreement because of how the negotiations are going", he added, dismantling the positive references made earlier by his interlocutor.