Hijos de joan tarda

Joan tardà’s speech at the budget debate at the congress.

The deputy of ERC, who has just announced that he will not repeat in the lists for the next general elections, talks about what he will do in his free time, his mother, a movie theater actress, independence and the king.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. No, I will miss the political debate, which is hard but also stimulating. And I will miss the people in Madrid from the republican world. But for security reasons I have always had a somewhat discreet life. I slept next to the Congress and as political life here is so intense you can’t have much social or cultural activity.
You are a professor of Catalan language and literature. You taught at a high school in Cornellá from 1978 until 2004, when you resigned to come to the Congress of Deputies. Did the pedagogy of your classes help you in politics?
Do you know that the lack of knowledge of the ERC leader Heribert Barrera about the monarchy was such that once he was late for an appointment in Zarzuela because the cab driver took him to the Zarzuela theater? Have you experienced something like that?

Interview with joan tardà: «it would be an irresponsibility that

In her appearance, Batet has shown herself convinced that within the constitutional framework of approval of a new Statute it is possible to «integrate» the two million people who voted for independence in Catalonia. In addition, she has emphasized the «relevant change» of the Generalitat by sitting on the Bilateral Commission. He considers that it is a step beyond the pro-independence demands and supposes «an agenda of normality». «It will require loyalty and flexibility from both sides and from all the political forces of this House and the Parliament,» Batet has claimed.
PP and Ciudadanos oppose the Government’s strategy. «It is a false dialogue. They want to impose their postulates», warned the conservative Alicia Sánchez-Camacho: «Don’t come to me with voluntarist proposals. While you give in and sit down to agree they organize internationally and yesterday Torra called for agitation in the streets,» added the PP spokeswoman, reports Europa Press.
Ciudadanos has accused the Executive of having its «hands tied» by the support it requires from the pro-independence forces and has considered that the Socialists «have failed» in their attempt to «deflate» the situation with dialogue.

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For me the lost opportunity is that the left has not been able to form a broad front government. Now it will not be possible, but it will inevitably succeed if we persist. At this moment it is impossible for us to be able to rebuild the post-pandemic Catalonia in a progressive key prioritizing the redistribution of wealth in a different way, nor will we be able to de-judicialize the process to build a democratic solution to the conflict, if we are not able to form a parliamentary majority, and hopefully a governmental majority, that represents a universe of Catalans superior to that which will be represented by a Government of Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya, from the leadership of the left.
Junts per Catalunya has a culture of power and therefore responsibility for the work of the Government. And hundreds of people professionally involved in the project. But it is also in a foundational period. This phase has not yet ended and it is very difficult to consolidate a foundational phase from the opposition. Junts has only one option, which is to join the Government. What it intends is something very legitimate, which is to do this integration in the best possible conditions. But Esquerra holds the key. Not only because it has had more votes but also because it has had the capacity to agree with the CUP and is located in the center of the game board.

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In his farewell he gives a long look. He assures that ERC will again demand dialogue on the referendum as a condition for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, while affirming that his party must agree with the PSC in the municipalities to prevent Ciudadanos from entering local governments.
I am a member of ERC and therefore right now I am leaving Madrid but I remain at the service of Esquerra. I will continue to work in the service of the party, yes, but I would be lying if I said that I am leaving there because I plan to do something concrete here. This is not the case.
A broad front is essential. With three legs: social policies, amnesty and referendum. The idea of self-determination will not disappear, because it is an idea that has taken root, it is an idea that has been assumed by 60 or 70%.
Well, yes, but it has been demonstrated that for us it is a deep and fundamental thing. But we have to try to make the road [towards independence] as smooth as possible and with as few obstacles as possible. For example, the more municipalities that are governed by the PSC together with Ciudadanos, the more difficult it will be to reach the top. Why? Because the PSC, although part of the triumvirate of the 155, is a leg of political Catalanism. On the other hand, neither PP nor Ciudadanos are part of Catalan nationalism. And it is up to ERC to play all the roles, such as preventing PSC-Ciudadanos governments. We have to be able to build together a process of accumulation of forces, starting to understand each other by those who are more similar to us and, once we have understood each other, we can not stop having a frank dialogue with the PSC, because just with the PSC we should make governments to prevent them from governing with Ciudadanos.