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ANC votes yes to unity

Some 96% of more than 11,000 members give approval for organisation to seek formulas to promote 27-S sovereignty bloc

Leadership will now prepare proposal to maximise consensus

The ANC civil organisation has taken a step closer to an electoral proposal for 27-S that brings together sovereignty support. The result of an internal vote held on Friday and yesterday morning was clear: some 96% of the organisation's 11,239 members who turned out at the polls voted for the ANC to take a leading role in 27-S. While the figures remain provisional with up to 5,000 email votes still to come, they are not expected to change radically change the result.

The ANC turned to its membership –some 34,700– in search of approval to “find the cooperation necessary with other organisations and political forces to promote an electoral proposal with the maximum cross-party consensus to ensure the plebiscite character of 27-S for the independence of Catalonia.” The response was unequivocally positive. The result authorises the leadership, headed by Jordi Sànchez, to negotiate with other sovereignty organisations and parties to find a formula of maximum unity in favour of sovereignty going into the September elections.

Unprecedented

Sànchez yesterday told this newspaper that the result of the vote was “an almost unprecedented success”. In the coming days, the next step for the Assemblea will be to come up with “a proposal of different scenarios” for 27-S that ensures consensus among sovereignty organisations and parties: “We will try, and more so with this mandate, to negotiate to achieve the maximum unity, with the fewest number of candidate lists and with the guarantee of a post.27-S government..” However, Sànchez did not go into details about what the formula would entail exactly, although he did rule himself out as a leader of any unified sovereignty bloc.

The ANC leader made his comments after an extraordinary meeting of the organisation's national leadership and the regional presidents held on Friday night. The meeting was the culmination of the territorial debates that have taken place since Catalan president Artur Mas launched his proposal for the sovereignty organisations to promote the yes-yes candidate list two weeks ago in Molins de Rei.

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