The Chair of Esquerra’s parliamentary group J.M. Jové holds that “the independence movement is stronger when in the service of the whole country, when of use to everyone. Because there is no nation without a decent life.”

This week, the President of Catalonia’s Generalitat government, Pere Aragonès, has opened a round of talks with the pro-independence political parties and organizations in order to learn what their opinions are and to analyse and put together a solution for the political conflict between Catalonia and Spain.

Esquerra Republicana likewise hopes open discussions in Parliament during question time. The chair of Esquerra’s parliamentary group Josep Maria Jové has assured that “the round of talks must set the ball rolling once again for an independence movement that has seen trust broken” all too often.

“The president is responsible for making it possible to build on the consensus in our society and it is up to us to move towards a real, feasible, winning proposal,” said Josep Maria Jové, who stressed the need to “recover the space that provides progress towards our shared goal, the Catalan Republic,” as a national but also a social advancement. “National liberation and social justice are two sides of the same coin,” he said.

Mr Jové made this clear at the threshold of February 14, one year after independence winning the elections with 52% of the vote. The fact is that the means to the resolution of the conflict is to secure an amnesty and a referendum for self-determination as instruments to put an end to the general cause against Catalonia and to resolve the political conflict democratically, insists Esquerra.

Indeed, President Pere Aragonès insists on “dialogue and negotiation with Spain’s government, based on democracy and an end to repression,” but he hopes to make it clear that the Spanish government must show the will to participate in the resolution of the political conflict because “letting time pass and making it chronic is not the solution, it simply makes things much worse.”

In this regard, the President of the Generalitat also referred to this route, as recognized by the international community with which the great debates and common challenges are shared and which “is often called upon as a guarantor for democratic conflict resolution,” elucidated Mr Jové.

“We need the strength of the nation, not just the strength of the parties, to move forward under our overall consensus,” said the chair of Esquerra’s parliamentary group, nationally but also socially, because “the independence movement is stronger when in the service of the whole country, when of use to everyone.” “There is no nation without a decent life,” he concluded.