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Opinion
1 February 2015 2.00 h

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marcela topor

Politics to set the pace of change in 2015

The elec­tion agree­ment be­tween CiU and ERC, to­gether with civil bod­ies such as ANC and Òmnium, will with­out any doubt set the pace of the po­lit­i­cal agenda in the com­ing months.

In the plebiscite elec­tion set for Sep­tem­ber 27, Cata­lans will get the chance to de­cide whether to vote for can­di­da­tures in favour of in­de­pen­dence. The au­tumn vote will put into prac­tice what pres­i­dent Mas has al­ways said is nec­es­sary: a bind­ing ref­er­en­dum to show the will of the Cata­lan peo­ple on be­com­ing a coun­try in­de­pen­dent from Spain.

De­spite the re­jec­tion of the plebiscite elec­tions in Cat­alo­nia by the Span­ish gov­ern­ment and its al­lies (Ciu­dadanos, PSC and part of the ICVEUiA), what mat­ters most is the re­sult of the vote. The aim of the sov­er­eignty par­ties to gain a po­lit­i­cal ma­jor­ity of in­de­pen­dence sup­port means they must put their dif­fer­ences aside and work to­gether to en­cour­age as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to vote for in­de­pen­dence on Sep­tem­ber 27. CiU and ERC will share a sov­er­eignty road map as a guide to­wards in­de­pen­dence. How­ever, the first signs of any progress on sov­er­eignty will be seen in the local elec­tions on May 24.

In ad­di­tion to an analy­sis of the po­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion, we also have a full re­port on the win­ter sports in­dus­try in the Pyre­nees, as well as a round-up of the arts and en­ter­tain­ment pro­gramme for 2015, not to men­tion all the lat­est on the Eng­lish Hour on El Punt Avui TV. Stay tuned!

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