An impasse with no easy exit in sight

The evolution of negotiations between Junts pel Sí and the CUP have reached a dangerous stalemate in which the coalition that won the 27-S elections has decided not to go beyond the position established in the investiture debate and give the CUP enough on which to base its decision, and the anti-capitalist left remains inflexible in its full opposition to Artur Mas. This impasse that cannot be resolved because the two sides have decided to position a solution to the dispute outside the scope of negotiation situates the independence process in the most important paradox of recent political history. Although the independence movement won elections that allow it to advance the process of separation, the main stumbling block comes not from Madrid, where everything is being done that one would expect of an arrogant State, paralysed on monolithic legality and obfuscated by expansive nationalism, but rather from the contradictions that block the appointment of a president.

Time slips dangerously by and it is now time that the politicians elected by the people of Catalonia to lead the sovereignty process became aware of the political, social and even emotional consequences for citizens of not finding a solution. Watching the country heading for elections in March does not do irreparable harm but it does damage representatives of political separatism that have demonstrated not only an inability to negotiate independence but even to reach internal agreement. There will not be only one person responsible for the bill of immobility, but it is the whole country that will pay it.