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Aragonès promises that Catalonia "will vote again" to decide its future
On the eve of the Diada of September 11, Aragonès has offered its institutional message from the Roman forum of Empúries (Girona), in a context of maximum division in the independence movement, and has raised its vindictive tone.
The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has promised this Saturday that Catalonia "will vote again" to decide its political future, because it is something "inevitable", although he has avoided setting dates and has indicated that the moment will depend on the "force "that is capable of accumulating independence.
On the eve of the Diada of September 11, Aragonès has offered its institutional message from the Roman forum of Empúries (Girona), in a context of maximum division in the independence movement, and has raised its vindictive tone.
After admitting last Wednesday that he does not see an agreed referendum possible in the short term, and a few weeks before the fifth anniversary of the unilateral referendum on 1-O, Aragonès has guaranteed that "Catalonia will vote on its future again, and it will do so with all the illusion and all the joy of those who are voting in favor of a future where everything, absolutely everything, is possible".
According to Aragonès, "Catalonia will vote again, it is inevitable, because it is the most inclusive proposal, because it is the proposal that generates the most consensus, and because voting and offering citizens the ability to decide the future of the country is the only way to solve conflict with the state.
"Catalonia will vote. It will do so sooner or later depending on the strength we have, but it will, we will. It is a basic question of democracy. And we will never, absolutely never give it up. Never, absolutely never will I give up that the citizens of Catalonia can freely, peacefully and democratically decide the future of the country", he remarked.
To counteract criticism from pro-independence sectors that accuse him of renouncing self-determination and amnesty at a dialogue table with the State focused so far on exploring "dejudicialization" measures, he has defended his strategy: "It is important to value that we are managing to return the conflict to politics".
The president has highlighted, according to the Efe agency, that the agreements to "facilitate the end of the repression" and "end the threat of prosecution" are "essential" to allow a subsequent negotiation on self-determination.
The Catalans, he underlined, must be able to "choose between an obsolete State, which does not respond to the needs of citizens" - he cited as an example the "disastrous and unacceptable" Renfe Cercanías service - or a "Catalan republic with all the tools to make people's lives easier".