Torra offers 21 point deal

The Cata­lan gov­ern­ment of­fered Pedro Sánchez a 21 point “de­mo­c­ra­tic agree­ment” in a meet­ing that took place in Barcelona on Thurs­day De­cem­ber 20. This in­cluded the pro­posal that a com­mis­sion of in­de­pen­dent fig­ures be in­vited to me­di­ate in order to reach a pacted agree­ment on the right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. More­over Pres­i­dent Torra re­vealed, on Christ­mas day (at the cel­e­bra­tion of the 85th an­niver­sary of Pres­i­dent Macia’s death) that the agree­ment is being pro­posed in order to “de­fran­chise Spain” and to get the Cata­lan sov­er­eignty pol­icy and process out of the courts, as well as to iso­late the far-right fas­cist par­ties and ini­ti­ate a process of “de­mo­c­ra­tic re­gen­er­a­tion” in the state based on “po­lit­i­cal ethics,” among other things, ac­cord­ing to the Cata­lan news agency (ACN). The pro­posal, Torra says, does not ac­cept re­pres­sion and sup­ports the Cata­lan lan­guage im­mer­sion model in ed­u­ca­tion.

Torra added that the Cata­lan gov­ern­ment is now wait­ing for an an­swer from the Span­ish gov­ern­ment and con­firmed that the pro-in­de­pen­dence ma­jor­ity will not sup­port the state bud­get if Sánchez’s gov­ern­ment does not offer a po­lit­i­cal pro­posal for Cat­alo­nia, as, ac­cord­ing to him in re­cent months the state has not fixed on any­thing and no changes re­lat­ing to pris­on­ers and ex­iles have taken place. “In re­cent months noth­ing has changed. Noth­ing has been set­tled on re­gard­ing the right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion,” said Torra as recorded by the Span­ish news agency (EFE).

Mean­while, PSOE sources con­firmed yes­ter­day that Sánchez’s gov­ern­ment will re­spond to the Gen­er­al­i­tat’s 21 point pro­posal “in time”.