Overview
- Puigdemont argues the rupture must start with recognition of the right to self-determination, which he says the PSOE once defended.
- He contends the PSOE aligned with the PP in October 2017 and that the transition pact and restored monarchy only perpetuate the existing regime.
- He links recent cases to what he calls lawfare, noting prison time for a key figure from an early parliamentary meeting, proceedings against Pedro Sánchez’s circle and family, and the attorney general’s conviction and disqualification.
- He says the PSOE–Junts investiture deal in Brussels intensified tensions by invoking 1714, proposing inquiries into the state’s “dirty war,” explicitly citing lawfare, advancing an amnesty, and seeking Catalan’s official status in the EU and in Congress.
- Warning that “Spain is boiling,” he compares today’s division to past convulsive periods with tragic or “tragicomic” endings such as the attempted coup of 23F.