(Politics) Aragonès warns Sánchez that there will be no "second chance" for dialogue

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In 1985, Josep Tarradellas already starred in one of the debates of the Club Siglo XXI in Madrid. And last night Pere Aragonès made his debut in this veteran forum for political dialogue in the capital of Spain, recalling that all his predecessors in the presidency of the Generalitat came to Madrid warning about the situation in Catalonia. Aragonès warned that today the majority option is to constitute "an independent Catalan republic."

After being presented by former mayor Manuela Carmena as “a man of dialogue”, and in the presence of the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, in addition to the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, Aragonès defined his ideological identity signs: “I am a pro-independence, republican and left ”. And the main message he launched was the demand to Pedro Sánchez that he dares to give the floor to the Catalan citizens in a referendum, and that he does not hide behind the fear that his only alternative is a government of the right and the extreme right in Spain to delay the solution to the political conflict in Catalonia.

"We need a democratic transformation that takes place in Catalonia and Spain out of respect for the majority will of the Catalan citizenry to decide the political future of our country in a peaceful and democratic way," he claimed. Aragonès regretted "the inability" that the State has shown to date to allow and facilitate this majority demand that he attributed to Catalan society, in the Scottish way, "being creative and imaginative to find the formula to make the referendum possible."
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“The referendum is necessary. And the State, which defends that Catalonia continues to be part of Spain, must dare to win democratically. The imposition will not lead to any victory. Dare to win and also dare to lose, "he said. “I, as president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, dare. I dare to let the Catalan citizens decide, with all the conviction that our option will win ”, he affirmed.

Aragonès did not want to focus the debate on the date of a new meeting of the dialogue table between the Government and the Generalitat, but rather on proposing proposals to advance the negotiation. "There is no state proposal on the table," he lamented. And he reiterated that that of the Generalitat is amnesty and the right of self-determination. He thus urged Sánchez not to "delay" this negotiation or use "excuses for not moving forward."
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