Oriol Junqueras es el vicepresidente de Cataluña. Nota de prensa en el New York Times

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Por ORIOL JUNQUERAS

NOV. 1, 2017

Oriol Junqueras es el vicepresidente de Cataluña. Nota de prensa en el New York Times 02junqueras-inyt-blog427

Oriol Junqueras es el vicepresidente de Cataluña. Nota de prensa en el New York Times 02junqueras-inyt-blog427

Los partidarios de la independencia catalana usan banderas en Barcelona, España, el mes pasado. CréditoJeff Mitchell / Getty Images

BARCELONA, Spain — The proclamation of independence by the Catalan Republic last week was a historic milestone. It demonstrated that the Catalan government, with the support of the public, has one priority — freedom for a people who are being prohibited from deciding their future. It didn’t seem to matter to the Spanish government, though, that most Catalans wanted a peaceful, democratic vote to establish their independence.

For years, we Catalonians have been enduring a sustained effort against our self-government. This became even more evident after the Oct. 1 referendum on independence, with rushed legislative actions to encourage firms to move out of Catalonia, as well as direct pressure on large companies to leave.

This damage to Catalan society is part of a longstanding strategy of the Spanish government. It has handed down arbitrary and capricious policy decisions. The Constitutional Court has suspended every one of the initiatives of the Catalan government. Whether the issues involve gender equality, energy or the economy, everything has been cut down at the behest of the Popular Party government in Madrid.

Many times and in many ways we have tried to speak out for our rights, but the Spanish government has never listened; we have always found the same wall of incomprehension and rejection. The Spanish government wants only servile obedience. This is why it tried to stop the referendum through the indiscriminate use of batons, threats and coercion.

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Creíamos que si votábamos pacíficamente por la independencia, el gobierno español nos escucharía. Pero fuimos respondidos solo por la violencia, entregados por personas uniformadas y por grupos de extrema derecha que han actuado con total impunidad. Golpear a la gente en nombre de las ideas ahora parece ser legal.

Y aquí es donde trazamos la línea, porque subrayar la dignidad y validar la voluntad de la gente no podía esperar por siempre. En una batalla por la autodeterminación y el reconocimiento de los derechos, uno no gana con el primer golpe, especialmente contra un estado tan dispuesto a que su maquinaria golpee a millones de ciudadanos solo porque quieren votar.

No importa lo que diga Madrid, Carles Puigdemont y Carme Forcadell siguen siendo el presidente y el presidente de nuestro Parlamento, respectivamente, y lo seguirán siendo hasta el día en que nuestros ciudadanos decidan lo contrario en una elección libre.

With the referendum’s passing vote, the Catalan Republic was born, and it is supported by the legitimacy of the ballot boxes. We Catalans need a shared strategy on the remaining stretch of the road to gradually establish a new framework of freedoms. In the coming days, we will have to make decisions, and they will not always be easy to understand.

Madrid’s will to quash self-government, to reject dialogue, to limit rights and freedoms, to persecute the representatives of the citizens, to impose the state’s brute force, forces us to persevere and to become stronger in order to prevail. Today in Catalonia there is a clear dissociation between the democratic will of citizens and the central government, which has set out to take over the people’s institutions and control them despotically.

Spain’s government has entered Catalonia with a determination to interfere in the educational curriculum, to control the media, to put our police force at its service, to convert the country into just one more province of a divided Spain that does not tolerate national plurality, to crush any dissidence, however democratic, and to kill any hope of dialogue.

We cannot allow this. It is essential to weave solid alliances with all the social and economic actors that want to build a national state truly at the service of its citizens. In spite of the obstacles being placed in our way, we must move forward. We must never give up the vote as a means of validating the republic, and we must prepare future local elections that will be essential to the consolidation of this republic.

La usurpación de las instituciones por parte del gobierno español a través del artículo 155 de la Constitución, una herramienta que permite a Madrid tomar el control administrativo de Cataluña, ha causado una protesta y nuestra respuesta se ha convertido en una prioridad.

Frente a este ataque debemos recomponer nuestras fuerzas, perseverar y no tenemos dudas de que con la civilidad y la actitud pacífica que siempre hemos mostrado, continuaremos avanzando por lo que decidamos.

El valor que este país ha demostrado es tan esclarecedor y tan fuerte que, tarde o temprano, dará como resultado la consolidación de una República de Cataluña plena, verdaderamente justa y democrática.

Oriol Junqueras es el vicepresidente de Cataluña.

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