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El Mundo Links the Rise of Aliança Catalana to the Strategy of Pedro Sánchez and Salvador Illa
According to a column in the Spanish daily, the policy of agreements with Junts and ERC failed to defuse separatism and ended up favoring a harder version. The analysis points to the growth of the force led by Sílvia Orriols.
A column published by El Mundo argues that the strategy promoted by Pedro Sánchez and Salvador Illa in Catalonia did not defuse separatism, but instead contributed to the advance of Aliança Catalana, the movement led by Sílvia Orriols.
According to that analysis, Illa arrived at the Generalitat in 2024 with the promise of steering Catalonia’s political situation after the procés. The article says that roadmap was based on measures such as the pardon, amnesty, new financing and the continuation of cultural structures linked to nationalism, within the framework of the socialists’ agreements with Junts and ERC.
Still according to El Mundo, that scheme sought to secure the alliance with the separatist parties, keep the Government in La Moncloa afloat and move toward a reform of the autonomous state. The text adds that, in that context, there was also a weakening of civic constitutionalism in Catalonia.
The column says that the emergence of Aliança Catalana altered that plan and warns that different polls anticipate that separatism could regain an absolute majority. In that reading, the growth of Orriols’ movement is explained by a discourse centered on immigration, with the ability to attract even voters outside the separatist bloc.
For El Mundo, that evolution represents a more serious threat than a possible comeback by Junts or ERC, because it breaks the traditional division between identity-based blocs in Catalan politics and broadens the separatist electoral base. The article concludes that Orriols’ rise is a political consequence of socialism’s strategy in Catalonia.
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