The Assembly where the new Route of the Party will vote on March 15 and 16 will celebrate and this Tuesday has overcome the deadline to present amendments to the three drafts proposed by the new dome led by Oriol Junqueras and Elisenda Alamany. The members of Nova Esquerra Nacional (NEN), the candidacy that remained in second place in the internal election, in the final document. Among those points they want to include are, for example, to modify the duration of the period of the different organic positions. If approved, the proposal would directly affect Junqueras’s possible aspirations to repeat in the future as ERC leader.
The modification proposed in the draft of the statutory paper eliminates two words from the text proposed by the dome: “uninterruptedly” and “fully.” The current text establishes that the presidency and the general secretaries could be re -elected “uninterruptedly” up to a maximum of 12 years, a limit that fell if it had not been possible to develop “fully” the functions as a result of “political repression”.
In the previous Congress, in order to guarantee the continuity of the tandem oriol Junqueras – Marta Rovira, which removed the limit. Critics grouped in NEN believe that although political disqualification affects the electoral rights of organic positions -they make them inegable -that does not imply that they cannot fulfill the functions that statutory that is statutory to the presidency and the General Secretariat and the Secretariat and the Secretariat already . They will also fight so that it cannot be compatible to have organic and institutional positions or to be a candidate for the different electoral appointments.
Nen also advocates taking away from the presidency of the party the power to decide on a percentage of people in the electoral lists. The current text allowed it, with the approval of the executive. With the drafted that critics propose, all that will fall exclusively in this last organ. The role of Junqueras against the then general secretary, Marta Rovira, and with the former president of the Parliament, Pere Aragonès.
In the political presentation, critics want it to be in writing that will not be agreed under any reason with Aliança Catalan, even if that implies not having an independence majority in the Parliament. “We want to do anti -fascism operational,” explain Nen sources. It also wants to make it clear that the party operates from secularism, a concept that critics denounce that it has fallen from the draft.
Finally, the environment of the candidacy led by Xavier Godàs has taken a Copernican turn in his option for not wanting to organize internally. Now they want to become an internal current – and therefore they also ask that the statutory paper include that possibility that parties such as the PSOE or Junts per Catalunya do contemplate. To be able to form it, the support of 3% of the militancy should be sought – today, about 240 affiliates – and that status would give them the possibility of having a direct voice in the National Consell and accessing the internal media.
