The chamber passes two proposals to defuse the political conflict on the last day of the General Policy Debate

Esquerra Republicana rates highly the approval by the Catalan Parliament of two resolutions seeking to establish the instruments needed to de-escalate the political conflict between Catalonia and Spain. The first phase is amnesty, and this has been endorsed by the Parliament in a text introduced by the pro-independence majority with the support of democratic socialists En Comú Podem. The second, the defence of self-determination so Catalonia can decide on its future in a referendum.

In this regard, the proposal introduced by Esquerra and Junts addresses a referendum agreed with the State, urges the Catalan government to take all the necessary measures to make it come about, and also establishes it as a condition for the investiture of Spain’s prime minister and to open the Spanish legislature.

“On Tuesday, the President of Catalonia’s Generalitat government made it clear that in the forthcoming Spanish legislature the conditions must be set so that Catalonia can vote, and today we are restating that and taking it to the vote and approval of this Parliament; we know that the democratic solution is through amnesty and a referendum, these are the conditions for opening the Spanish legislature; it is political will,” concluded Esquerra’s parliamentary spokeswoman, Marta Vilalta.

During her address, Ms Vilalta also highlighted Esquerra’s determination to carry on working for parliamentary consensus and major national agreements, as well as the government’s commitment to a republican, social and feminist political agenda. “Don't confuse different visions of the direction that everyone wants for this country with a lack of direction,” she reminded the opposition. Indeed, it is logical that the positions of the parliamentary groups are different: “Junts wants to lower taxes for the rich, and we don’t; the PSC is committed to axing the Basic Income Pilot Plan, and we mean to maintain it,” added the spokeswoman for Esquerra.