This week the Catalan Parliament is to approve a declaration that sets the basis in order to build democracy in Catalonia. This declaration
intends to be transparent as well as promoting participation of civil
society in the sovereign construction of this democracy.
Appealing to universal principles of the rights of citizens and nations —the only legitimacy that stands above any legislation— the Catalan Parliament, with a wide majority and representing the citizens entitled to vote in Catalonia, declares that the Catalan nation is a legal and politic subject that has the right to decide, and wishes to do so. This declaration must be set within the perception of most of the Catalan people —which does not exist in the rest of the Spain— that the constitutional regime is not fully democratic since it emerged from a deal made between a part of the democratic forces and the fascist regime, the leaders of which were never debarred. The Spanish Franco regime, an ally of Hitler, Mussolini and Pétain, was reprieved by the European democracies in order to guarantee another ally in the Cold War against communism. Later on, from that spurious pact came the partially democratic Spanish regime which emerged after Franco’s death and was treated with indulgence by European democracies until today. But the lack of a certain breaking-off with the old Nazi-Fascist Franco regime has brought about a constitutional regime and governmental practices that violate personal and collective rights, as well as legitimizing a political system that tends to corruption and inefficiency.
This low quality democracy, together with the politics of persecution and elimination of the cultural and linguistic minority that expresses itself in Catalan (around 10 million speakers), are the main causes that together with Catalonia's loss of its sovereign historical rights only abolished by acts of war, have brought the majority will of the Catalan nation to exercise the right of self-determination, the democratic right to decide its own future.
This declaration of the Catalan Parliament is the first political message before its own citizens, before the Spanish state and before the whole world, and is the result of a parliamentary concretion of the political program for the right of self-determination that in the last Catalan elections was shared by four parties, which won two thirds of the seats in the Catalan Parliament: from the liberal democratic Center-Right CiU (Convergència i Unió), through the Catalan Social-Democrat ERC (Esquerra Republicana, which leads the opposition), the Eco-Socialist and Post-Communist IC (Iniciativa per Catalunya) to the alternative extreme Left CUP. The Catalan delegation of the Spanish Social-Democrat PSC (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya) has an undefined position. Finally, the Spanish Right PP (Partido Popular), as well as the populist centre C’s (Ciudadanos) stand against the right to self-determination.
Appealing to universal principles of the rights of citizens and nations —the only legitimacy that stands above any legislation— the Catalan Parliament, with a wide majority and representing the citizens entitled to vote in Catalonia, declares that the Catalan nation is a legal and politic subject that has the right to decide, and wishes to do so. This declaration must be set within the perception of most of the Catalan people —which does not exist in the rest of the Spain— that the constitutional regime is not fully democratic since it emerged from a deal made between a part of the democratic forces and the fascist regime, the leaders of which were never debarred. The Spanish Franco regime, an ally of Hitler, Mussolini and Pétain, was reprieved by the European democracies in order to guarantee another ally in the Cold War against communism. Later on, from that spurious pact came the partially democratic Spanish regime which emerged after Franco’s death and was treated with indulgence by European democracies until today. But the lack of a certain breaking-off with the old Nazi-Fascist Franco regime has brought about a constitutional regime and governmental practices that violate personal and collective rights, as well as legitimizing a political system that tends to corruption and inefficiency.
This low quality democracy, together with the politics of persecution and elimination of the cultural and linguistic minority that expresses itself in Catalan (around 10 million speakers), are the main causes that together with Catalonia's loss of its sovereign historical rights only abolished by acts of war, have brought the majority will of the Catalan nation to exercise the right of self-determination, the democratic right to decide its own future.
This declaration of the Catalan Parliament is the first political message before its own citizens, before the Spanish state and before the whole world, and is the result of a parliamentary concretion of the political program for the right of self-determination that in the last Catalan elections was shared by four parties, which won two thirds of the seats in the Catalan Parliament: from the liberal democratic Center-Right CiU (Convergència i Unió), through the Catalan Social-Democrat ERC (Esquerra Republicana, which leads the opposition), the Eco-Socialist and Post-Communist IC (Iniciativa per Catalunya) to the alternative extreme Left CUP. The Catalan delegation of the Spanish Social-Democrat PSC (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya) has an undefined position. Finally, the Spanish Right PP (Partido Popular), as well as the populist centre C’s (Ciudadanos) stand against the right to self-determination.
Josep Huguet Biosca, former Minister of the Government of Catalonia (2004-2010).
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