Catalonia tripartism has played a role - in my eyes bad - in setting objectives Occitan. With the recent "lei der Aran", some sectors were Catalan evidence of interference rather detestable to the definition dun "Occitan referencial. The Catalan elections Sunday will probably change that. What say? Do not say too much, of course: in times of crisis, after eight years of government alternating thing is classic. The English context marked by the overall decay of the PSOE is not indifferent. However:
- The former left-wing parties make up the tripartite (Socialists, environmentalists, left-independence) were all for less collapsed. The left is in retreat as well as elsewhere in Europe (or she fails to return to power as in Scandinavia, it has to be put in place restrictive measures against the crisis, as in Spain) and will continue to be as long as it does not articulate a speech response to globalization (a few tracks: European common market with protectionism, ...). Meanwhile, the PP is his best score in Catalonia since the restoration of democracy.
- The collapse of the independence of the ERC is partly caused by the proliferation of small parties independence and exhaustion related to power: a view Occitan, Occitan this means that the relay loses its only in Catalonia, who for years promotes a questionable strategy of cooperation by leveraging the weapon Administrative Catalan to satisfy the fantasies of linguistic unification on the basis of Languedoc. It Occitan referencial referred to in many texts, sometimes the force of law. The Catalan interference in our affairs will have been completed.
- is undoubtedly the victory of CiU: Catalan felted returns to power, it is the revenge of a sense of nationalism, not really independence, say provincialism, more concerned with controlling that Catalonia pays to the central state of intoxication that big words. From a standpoint Occitan, there is also a change because CiU has never hidden his almost total disinterest in the issue Occitan disinterest that could verge on the offensive in other eras, including the refusal of recognize the specific Aran.
- The extremist anti-immigrant party Josep Anglada not entered Parliament, but in many ways it marked the campaign. He puts the medium term the question of what a local presence and survival of regional identities in our world movement. The answer by "Plataforma per Catalunya" is certainly too violent, the fact remains that I think this will be the major theme in Europe in the coming years, as is already the case in Flanders. Just because you can not save a local identity in a world as unstable: the alternative seems obvious, and almost seductive. Or do we try to stop these movements, both internal and external, in order to make a "break" a bit like Japan which was closed to Westerners through the edicts of closure of the seventeenth century and avoided the fate Philippines. Either one accepts the deal today, people can be welcomed and even sought to redefine something new, in this case a new Catalonia, a Catalonia either mock-state expression of a people in the ethnic sense of the term but whose citizenship of Catalonia attachment is based on respect for institutions and marginally on a language.
