L'esquerra catalane ou l'indépendance reconnue dans le monde.

[Undelraco]

C'est en anglais, et c'est logique puisque tiré du Wall Street Journal, mais Oriol Junquera, la gauche et la République indépendante de Catalogne prennent consistance.

[h=5]June 12, 2014 8:03 AM[/h][h=1]Plain-Talking Historian Is a Force Behind Catalan Independence Push[/h][h=2]Popularity of Party Headed by Oriol Junqueras Has Surged Amid Economic Hardship in Spain[/h]

Oriol Junqueras delivers a speech during a campaign meeting for the European Parliament elections in Cornella, near Barcelona, on May 20, 2014. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

• By

 

[Undelraco]

Ce n'est pas dans un brûlot gauchiste mais dans le Wall Street Journal, preuve que l'indépendantisme entre dans les faits quoi qu'en disent Rajoy (et les pantins du PSOE).

BARCELONA—In the drama over the wealthy Catalonia region's push for independence from Spain, much of the script is being written by a blunt-speaking historian whose leftist party drives the debate.Oriol Junqueras heads the pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia, which topped all other parties in Catalonia in last month's European Parliamentary elections, highlighting the friction between Spain and its leading industrial region.

Support for Republican Left, whose greatest previous electoral success was in the 1930s, has surged as Spanish living standards have sunk over the past six years of economic hardship, with many Catalans embracing Mr. Junqueras's no-nonsense message on independence.
In Spain's button-down political culture, the burly, bearded Mr. Junqueras is known for his directness, especially when talking about what would happen if the central government makes good on threats to block a nonbinding referendum on independence planned for the region on Nov. 9.
"When there are two million people in the streets of Barcelona for one, two, three days, what will the public opinion in Europe say?" he said. "What will financial markets say?"
Those aren't idle questions given the economic importance of Catalonia, which produces a quarter of Spain's exports.
The independence movement asserts that central authorities in Madrid drain Catalonia of tax revenue without offering sufficient deference to its language and culture. Spanish officials say they have offered plenty of assistance to Catalonia during Europe's economic crisis and that the planned referendum would be unconstitutional.
So far, Spanish financial markets seem oblivious to the Catalan independence drive and European leaders have shrugged it off. But the European Parliament elections showed the independence movement's capacity to mobilize activists, a weapon Mr. Junqueras is counting on.
"Does someone think we aren't capable of halting the Catalan economy during one week?" he said at a conference in Brussels last November.
Seated in the cafeteria of Catalonia's parliament, Mr. Junqueras scanned an electoral map of the region. It was dominated by blue and yellow, the colors representing Republican Left and the other main pro-independence bloc, the governing Convergence and Union. Together with a small pro-referendum party, they got 55% of the vote on May 25.
"It's extraordinary," he said. "Those in favor of the referendum are getting more votes, and those against are getting less."
Mr. Junqueras, a 45-year-old author and professor specializing in Catalan and Asian history, was elected mayor of the town of Sant Vicenç dels Horts in 2011. He still holds that post and notes there is strong support for independence there even though many residents are predominantly Spanish-speaking.
Republican Left has fierce detractors, who point out the party's last heyday came during a period of intense political polarization that culminated in the Spanish Civil War.

Republican Left headed a coalition that controlled Catalonia's government in the fractious 1930s, but that reign was cut short by the victory of Gen.
Francisco Franco's nationalists in the Civil War. Many party members fled to France. After the Nazi invasion, the Gestapo turned the party's leader over to Franco, who had him executed.
Today, Republican Left is pursuing "a strategy of erosion"—eroding the good will between Catalonia and the rest of Spain and eroding support for establishment parties, said
Ignacio Martín Blanco, a Catalan political commentator who opposes independence.He called Mr. Junqueras a practitioner of "demagogic populism" who pitches independence as a cure-all. "Whenever Republican Left has gotten power, it has been devastating for Catalonia," the commentator said.
Mr. Junqueras brushes off the criticism, saying Republican Left is no more radical than Britain's Labour Party.
The Republican Left returned to government in 2003 in an alliance with Socialists and Greens, but that partnership was often marred by infighting over the drafting of an autonomy statute outlining the regional government's powers.

Now, Mr. Junqueras may have as much say in determining Catalan's future as the Catalan regional president,
Artur Mas, who is also leader of the Convergence and Union alliance.Mr. Mas, whose alliance had recently embraced separatism, called a regional election in November 2012 to strengthen his hand against Madrid. The move backfired: Many voters favoring secession opted instead for Republican Left, which had long espoused the cause, forcing Mr. Mas into a "governability pact" with Mr. Junqueras to assure a parliamentary majority.
Republican Left and Convergence and Union have agreed on a common legislative agenda, even though Republican Left hasn't taken posts in government ministries. The partnership offers the best of both worlds for Mr. Junqueras, analysts say: While prodding Mr. Mas into a more vigorous pursuit of the independence agenda, he has kept Republican Left outside the government, shielding it from discontent over Mr. Mas's unpopular budget cuts.

Convergence and Union officials acknowledge the difficulty of governing in an age of austerity. "We've had to take very complicated and harsh decisions. Consequently [the voters] have given more support to those who haven't had to take difficult decisions," said
Josep Rull, a Convergence and Union leader.
Mr. Junqueras said Republican Left is in no hurry to enter the government. Spanish Prime Minister
Mariano Rajoy's staunch opposition to an independence referendum is only helping to generate more supporters for the cause, he said."There are many more citizens in favor of democracy than of independence," he said. "To the extent that the government doesn't allow these citizens favoring democracy to vote, it's converting them into citizens who favor independence."
Write to Matt Moffett at matthew.moffett@wsj.com


Matt Moffett

Un mouvement non violent, démocratique avance tranquillement pour aller vers la République catalane et libérer la Catalogne de la monarchie espagnole et d'un pouvoir toujours porteur des gênes du franquisme et des compromissions avec l'Opus Dei, l'extrême droite catholique et les milieux d'affaires. Une Révolution Tranquille, porteuse de liberté et de justice sociale, comme on a pu dire au Québec.

 

[llucet]

Ect

C'est en anglais, et c'est logique puisque tiré du Wall Street Journal, mais Oriol Junquera, la gauche et la République indépendante de Catalogne prennent consistance.

[h=5]June 12, 2014 8:03 AM[/h][h=1]Plain-Talking Historian Is a Force Behind Catalan Independence Push[/h][h=2]Popularity of Party Headed by Oriol Junqueras Has Surged Amid Economic Hardship in Spain[/h]

Oriol Junqueras delivers a speech during a campaign meeting for the European Parliament elections in Cornella, near Barcelona, on May 20, 2014. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

• By

• 
  
  Vaig pensar per un moment que l'ECT - Esquerra Catalana dels Treballadors - s'havia despertat !!! Segur que com més va la vida, el qualificatiu de "Treballadors" s'afluixa !!
  Bé, a seguir lo que diu i fa aquesta "Esquerra Catalana" ...
  "Entre tots ho farem ..."