Spain and Catalonia: rebuilding a pact

Abstract

In this editorial commentary, we want to express our opinion and propose the construction of an inclusive discourse. So we try to explain the historical and legal processes in their complexity and its internal reasons, presenting the different positions to understand them with honesty. We believe that this can be a service to our readers. First addressed two perspectives on the Catalan issue: the historical and the legal question. From both came to a first conclusion: neither the history nor the right can resolve an issue that, over time, has not done anything else but get complicated, especially in recent years,although both perspectives offer some light, because they provide keys to understanding. We are really convinced that neither serve on their own to resolve the issue. Only a political Pact can guide and facilitate a stable solution. After all, articulate a political Pact is also the result of a history and is ordered legally, but exceeds both perspectives as requires capacity and will of create then conditions for found a new relationship between Spain and Catalonia. Then we make our explicit proposal: to advance in a new resolution on the Catalan issue we need, as a complex and pluralsociety, rebuild a new relationship and to found a new political Pact from social and cultural consensus of pre-political character (i.e. emotional, moral-axiological and ideological) serving as to base for the political Pact, both among the citizens of Catalonia and between them and the citizens of the whole of Spain. In the perspective of a strong, united, coherent and stable Europe in which federal asymmetries should not hinder progress in a growing unit, we could also think a Spain able to integrate the common which is different.Solidarity and equality among all Spanish citizens must include recognition of the differential, the plural and diverse Spain from marriage that is expressed through the federal Pact. The recognition of the singularity is accomplished only and necessarily by the bilateralism in the relations, which is only one possible formula among others. We therefore propose a new political Pact between the citizens, who arrived the day, it can be subjected to a referendum on constitutional revision involving all Spaniards. This Pact will be possible if all we reach an inclusive discourse. It is our proposal.