It could happen When the wave was irresistible, when independence was defended by those who don't remember it now. At that time, Pere Navarro's PSC, out of respect for its founding principles and under pressure from its Catalanist wing, presented itself to the electorate proposing a "legal and agreed-upon consultation." Later, it dared to break voting discipline in the Congress of Deputies, in defense of the referendum. Celestino Corbacho called for the re-establishment of the Catalan federation of the PSOE. But in the end, it was Catalanists like Maragall, Elena, and Geli who left, and the party suffered a drain of votes in several directions. Miquel Iceta's PSOE colleagues told him that the State would never negotiate, that matters would be resolved the hard way, and that if both the PSC and (especially) the PSOE didn't get their act together, they would suffer the consequences. Iceta, therefore, returned the party to the constitutional fold.