Catalan National Assembly: Catalan government should be replaced as executive does not do what it promised

The president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), Elisenda Paluzie, announced on Saturday December 22nd that the organization will increase the pressure on the Catalan government to take "effective actions": "It's time to get a move on. We are frustrated because we can see that the pro-independence majority is ineffective and we're going to demand results. We want to know if they're getting ready for independence or not," she said.

At an event this Saturday afternoon at the Auditorium of the Barcelona Forum, ​​the ANC - the largest of Catalonia's pro-independence civil society groups - presented its new strategic plan for the coming months. The Assembly wants to prevent "protests against repression from steering us off the path to independence", and for this reason it has announced new actions of an "exploratory and risky" nature. These initiatives intend to "get the public ready for the unilateral path" and start creating "effective tools for the country".

The ANC's new strategic plan reaffirms the commitment to a unilateral approach and considers that the possibility of a referendum on independence agreed with the Spanish state is not realistic. "Calling for a negotiated referendum now and, in addition, for one with three options, takes us back to where we were in 2013. It weakens us. It doesn't help", argued Paluzie. In addition, she asked the Catalan government that if it negotiates, to do so "with a spirit of victory".

The ANC president admitted that there is a "lack of political leadership and an inconsistency between speech and action" and warned that if Torra's executive does not do what it should, the only option will be to replace it. "We have to stop fooling ourselves and I don't want to fool you: we're talking with the parties, but the positions are distant and there is no agreement on what we have to do from now on. Unity is difficult," he admitted .