The PSOE-Junts agreement maintains that the proposals on consultations and concert were made with loyalty and within the law

It includes the independence story about the Nueva Planta Decrees, as the seed of the rejection of Spain by a part of society

MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The agreement signed this Thursday by PSOE and Junts maintains that the proposal for the organization of a consultation on the independence of Catalonia or on fiscal matters, in reference to the economic concert plan formulated by former president Artur Mas, was made out of "loyalty" and the "current legal framework". In this sense, he reproaches that the PP Government did not agree to a political negotiation in response to the 'procés'.

At the same time, he reports that an important part of Catalan society mobilized in favor of independence after the ruling of the Constitutional Court in 2010 that annulled references to the national reality of Catalonia and the concept of the nation.

It also alludes to the "claims and demands with a deep historical background", which took different forms since the culmination of the 'New Plant Decrees', in reference to the abolition promoted by Philip V (between 1707 and 1716) of the own regulations. of the former Principality of Catalonia.

The pact, reported by Europa Press, highlights that the 2010 ruling of the Constitutional Court meant that Catalonia was the only community with a statute that was not voted "entirely" by its citizens, which then caused, as a reaction, the succession since 2015 of various majorities. absolute independence parliamentary elections in the Parliament, as well as "massive mobilizations of an independence nature."

Then, he explains that in that period different proposals were approved by the Catalan Parliament and the Catalan Government in fiscal matters, as well as the request for "delegation of competence for the authorization of endorsements or the organization of a consultation under the protection of an autonomous law." .

"Unfortunately, the governments of that time did not favor political negotiation and none of these proposals, made from loyalty and the current legal framework, were considered," the text elaborates.

Along these lines and after these events, the agreement between Junts and PSOE details that the Catalan institutions promoted, first, a popular consultation on November 9, 2014 and, later, the independence referendum on October 1, 2017, both suspended and subsequently annulled by the TC "with massive participation in favor of the independence of Catalonia."

And it states that the attempt of the then PP Government to prevent the referendum gave rise to "images that shocked everyone inside and outside our borders", together with the approval of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution to temporarily suspend the autonomy of Catalonia, dismiss the Government, dissolve the Parliament and call early elections with a new pro-independence majority.

Likewise, the pact emphasizes that the ruling against part of the Statute is a key milestone in the conflict, since the initial text that Catalan society endorsed sought "both the recognition of Catalonia as a nation and the solution to the limitations of self-government and the accumulated deficits".

"Claims and demands with a deep historical background and that have taken different forms since the 'New Plant Decrees' abolished the constitutions and secular institutions of Catalonia. Claims where linguistic, cultural and institutional issues have played a prominent role, especially in periods in which these were subject to severe legal limitation and even prohibition or active persecution," the agreement deepens.

Furthermore, it states that this "historical and political complexity" of these issues has meant that a "relevant part of Catalan society has not felt identified with the current political system in Spain."