Another interference of justice in Catalan politics
The institutionality of the regime continues to dictate what can be, what not and when.
After the dismissal of the President Quim Torra and the completion of Parliament I know set the date for the realization of the Catalan regional elections for he 14 February. Given the advance of the pandemic, the elections were passed to the 30 of May. Nevertheless, a particular and the platform "Left on Positive" presented appeals to challenge the electoral postponement and the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) responded favorably in shape "Precautionary and provisional" committing to issue on the substantive issue before 8 February. At the same time, the TSJC disqualified the Minister of Action Outdoor, Institutional Relations and Transparency, Bernat Solé -the in charge of organizing the elections–, for his role on 1-O when he was mayor of Agramunt. In the midst of the repulsive meddling of the Justice, rulings and appeals, the date of the elections is uncertain. The parties also do not know if they will allow them to campaign street or what other limitations they will try to impose.
The match of the Socialists of Catalonia (PSC), subsidiary of the PSOE, is reluctant to postponement. Its leaders are not with their eyes on the health of the population nor in democratic rights but in the pre-election polls, that point them out as possible winners in a double sense. According to the Research Center Sociological (CIS), if the 14F were voted, Salvador Illa would triumph (PSC), current Minister of Health of Spain and the independence movement would fall below the 50%.
With the polls you never know, sometimes they are wrong in the forecasts and other times they are manipulated. But, this time, that the independence movement lose the majority and with it the presidency, It is a prognosis that nobody completely discards and it is perceived with concern. The doubts appear because ERC, JxCat and PDeCat have caused confusion and discouragement in some social sectors, causing recoil conjunctural mobilization. At the same time, the announced debacle of Ciudadanos opens the possibility that the PSC capitalize on a vote drain from the Inés Arrimadas party. Fans of the "Unity of Spain" and the defense of the parliamentary monarchical regime are so enthusiastic that Pedro Sánchez dived head first in the campaign and even the deputy and secretary Vox far-right party general, Javier Ortega Smith, announced his support for the PSC in a hypothetical investiture vote of Illa.
While i know Settle the question of the voting date, the parties apply their orientations. ERC, JxCat and PDeCat continue their open war for the charges and power quotas. You cannot trust those who were inconsistent with the struggle of the Catalan people for self-determination, they negotiate autonomy restrained and embody a typical bourgeois government, guarantor of capitalist profits.
Discontent with the majority independence expressions opens the possibility that the CUP expand its parliamentary representation. To try to make it happen, he has sealed an agreement with Guanyem, that placed Dolors Sabaters at the head of the list for Barcelona, endowing it with a profile and campaign speech tinged with reformism. Although electoral politics is a tactical matter, in this case it is in tune with the central postulates of the "New cycle" in post of the "Strategic unit" of independence, central question with which we have polemicized fraternally with the companions.
Regrettably, la CUP, anticapitalist, Izquierda Revolucionaria, Internationalist Struggle, Red Stream, CRT and SOL have not come together in a front radical left. And those of us who claim to be socialists, revolutionaries and internationalists we do not conform an alternative pole, already we will give our opinion on the tactics adopted by each one. Beyond how it is resolve the quagmire of the Catalan elections and the definition of the vote, follow pending to take steps forward, even if they are modest, on the approach road of the revolutionary socialists.
