Junts pel Sí
| Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) |
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| speaker | Raül Romeva |
| Emergence | 20th July 2015 |
| Place of foundation |
Barcelona , Spain
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| resolution | November 8, 2017 |
| Alignment | Center-right and left-wing Republican alliance |
| Colours) | (hexadecimal: 56B7A1) |
| Parliament seats |
0/135 in the Catalan Parliament |
| Website | juntspelsi.cat |
Junts pel Sí ( Catalan for: 'Together for yes', abbreviated JxSí ) was a Catalan electoral alliance that was foundedin Barcelonain July 2015 for the 2015 regional elections and represents a coalition of the center-right Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC ) (or its successor party Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català (PDeCAT) ) with the then Catalan Prime Minister Artur Mas as chairman and the left-wing Republican Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) with chairman Oriol Junqueras . The electoral alliance was notrenewedfor the early elections on December 21, 2017 .
prehistory
In 2006 the Partido Popular (PP) , which ruled with an absolute majority in Spain, filed a constitutional complaint against the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia passed by the Catalan Parliament in the same year. In 2010 the judgment was made, which largely confirmed the statute, but a. deleted the term nation from the preface.
This led to the first mass protests, and on July 10, 2010, the day before Spain won the World Cup , more than a million people gathered in Barcelona. The slogan of the event was “ Som una nació - nosaltres decidim ” “We are one nation - we decide” and the demonstration was supported by all parties represented in the Catalan Parliament, with the exception of the Spanish-minded PP and the Ciutadans with a total of 26.7 % of parliamentary seats.
The dissatisfaction with the policies of the central government did not decrease afterwards, however, and on the day of the Catalan national holiday there were again mass protests in which several hundred thousand people took part. In 2012, the civil rights movement Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) was founded , which militated for rapid independence. At the same time, relations with the government in Madrid, which insisted on defending the unitary state, escalated.
Further tensions arose when the Spanish Minister of Education José Ignacio Wert Ortega wanted to increase the proportion of Spanish in teaching in Catalonia, which was perceived as a deliberate provocation. The ANC subsequently organized further demonstrations such as the “Catalan Way” human chain in 2013 and the events in 2014 and 2015 in Barcelona, which were among the largest demonstrations in Europe.
The conflict with Madrid intensified when the Catalan parliament passed a referendum in 2014 with a majority of 64%. The Spanish government obtained the suspension of the referendum at the Constitutional Court. However, it was conducted as an informal survey on November 9, 2014, and out of 5.4 million eligible voters, 2.3 million people participated. Support for independence from Spain was around 80% among the participants. The Spanish Constitutional Court declared the referendum to be illegal and the Catalan Prime Minister Mas called early elections for the Catalan parliament. These new elections, which took place on September 27, 2015, should have a plebiscite character, according to independence advocates. All parties are represented from left to right, but proponents say that the main question should be whether the voters are for or against independence.
That is why the electoral alliance Junts pel Sí, whose representatives in parliament are CDC and ERC, was formed for the 2015 parliamentary elections . There is actually a strong rivalry between these parties, but after long negotiations they were able to agree on a common path. The Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP) party is not represented in this alliance , and although it is also committed to independence, it has its own list.
resolution
Already for the election to the Spanish parliament on December 20, 2015, the electoral alliance was not reissued. Rather, the CDC formed the Democràcia i Llibertat (DL) alliance together with the Demòcrates de Catalunya party (split from the UDC) and the small Reagrupament Independista party (which had stood together with the ERC in the previous election in 2011); ERC competed separately.
In the course of the political crisis, which culminated in the unilateral declaration of independence by the Catalan parliament on October 27, 2017 and the dismissal of the regional government under Carles Puigdemont (from PDeCAT) on the same day, new elections were called for May 21. December 2017; as a result, Puigdemont fled to Belgium to escape persecution by the Spanish judiciary; however, the majority of ministers of the Govern (regional government) were taken into custody, including the party leader of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras. Until November 8, 2017, the last day on which the parties could have registered such an election list for the election, the ERC and PDeCAT could not agree on a new unit list, although Puigdemont from Belgium had called for it.
Web links
- Junts pel Sí (website of the electoral alliance)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ute Müller, “Why the Catalans want to leave Spain” , Die Welt , September 27, 2015
- ↑ “Mass protest in Spain: More than a million Catalans are demanding more independence” , Spiegel Online , July 10, 2010
- ↑ Julia Macher, “Outrage over Madrid's school reform: Catalans regard government plans as provocation” , Deutschlandfunk , December 27, 2012
- ↑ JA Aunión, “Wert quiere” españolizar ”Cataluña” , El País , 10 September 2012
- ↑ Nerea Rodríguez & Bernat Vilaró, "" 9N votarem. 9N guanyarem "bat rècords. Catalunya envia el missatge al món en una jornada històrica ” , El Món , September 11, 2014
- ^ "Catalans vote for secession from Spain" , Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 10, 2014
- ^ "Catalans vote for independence" , Die Zeit , November 10, 2014
- ↑ Theo Koll, "Catalonia chooses - regional or much, much more?" ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ZDF - Today , September 26, 2015
- ↑ Vincenzo Capodici, "" Junts pel Sí ": On the way to independence for Catalonia" , Tages Anzeiger , September 26, 2015
- ^ "New Germany: CUP politician Arrufat:" Catalonia should become a reference for Europe "" , press portal , September 26, 2015
- ↑ Le Monde: En Catalogne, la rupture du front nationaliste , November 8, 2017, accessed on the same day (French)
