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El Punt Avui - Notícia: La societat civil empeny

Civil society pushes

12/30/13 02:00 - BARCELONA - Marc Bataller

The president of the ANC, Carmen Forcadell Photo Archives.

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, "Artur Mas is led by the people." Editorial of the prestigious British newspaper Financial Times analyzed this strength is playing the role of civil society in all traffic to the query. Citizenship pushing from below, as demonstrated in 2012 when a million and a half people marched to demand independence and did tack the course of the Catalan government, which at that time had put the bow pact tax.

This village which speaks the Financial Times is set to stone hundreds of associations that itch for years, but the two main standards are Òmnium and Catalan National Assembly (ANC), led by two women, Muriel Casals (Avignon , 1945) and Carmen Forcadell (Xerta, 1956), which are becoming the icons of the claims sovereignty driven from outside Parliament. This year the two organizations have strengthened ties and easy to see Casals Forcadell together in the same consultation events defending the new state or Catalan. Another actor who often joins this duo is the president of the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), Josep Maria Vila Abadal.

Muriel Casals represents the break, serenity, tranquility and wisdom. The historical organization of more than 50 years, as Omnium, which recently was not far from independence, but has been following the evolution of many Catalans or the government itself, which found that the fit with Spain is impossible and that the only way is to build a new state or Bendit A normal country, as it says the last campaign of the organization. "The process is unstoppable (...). The dynamics towards independence is on track enough to not derailed, "Casals stood in a interview in this newspaper.

The change of chip Omnium occurred in 2010 with the mutilation of the statute and the subsequent demonstration that was organized and brought together nearly one million people in Barcelona.

If Casals is common sense, and the NAC are Carmen Forcadell rapture. Therefore represent the two characteristics that have been linked with the Catalan character. The yin and yang. The perfect combination of many strokes are required to face the challenges with confidence.

The ANC was founded in 2012 with a clear objective: to ensure the independence of Catalonia. The association draws directly query sovereignty that took place from 2009 to 2012 and its success is based on the networking area. In a few months he created a successful infrastructure that allowed him to mount the demonstration of independence on 11 September 2012 in Barcelona, ​​a million and a half people. The death of the fiscal pact.

This outburst Forcadell, who was former councilman ERC Sabadell has enabled him to avoid having to balance as many Omnium and was able to show from the first minute a more forceful. "Without our own state we are doomed to disappear," remarked another interview at The Point today. But this does not prevent abraonament FORCADELL excited and cry in some of his speeches, as occurred during the human chain of September 11.

Indeed, the role of the 2013 Casals Forcadell has been linked to two major events that have co-organized: the Concert for Freedom in Camp Nou and the Catalan way towards independence . Omnium took the reigns of the first event, which was held on 29 June, when 90,000 people claimed that Catalonia to hold talks in 2014. The festival will go down the annals of history and Catalan nationalist sentiments in addition to other important events such as the football stadium concert of Appeal (1981) or by Lluís Llach (1985).

If the Concert for Freedom did get goosebumps, which was live on September 11, under the shelter of the ANC, is indescribable. A yellow wave over 1, 6 million Catalans shook hands along 400 kilometers from the North Catalonia to Valencia. Trace and scarf.

This unity of action between ANC and Omnium between Casals and Forcadell continue. The two organizations will continue pushing for the executive and resilience for the Catalans to vote on the request. Even more of a leadership skills have seen political Casals Forcadell and left their names on a list topped by some sleepers for European unity. Both, however, have autodescartat.

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Muriel Casals and Carmen Forcadell
Òmnium and the Catalan National Assembly, the two most important institutions sovereignty of the country, have close ties during 2013. Its two presidents, Muriel Casals and Carmen Forcadell have become the spearhead of civil society that pushes politicians in the transition to the national consultation and also have been visible faces of two events that have proven the process is unstoppable: Concert for Freedom in Camp Nou and the Catalan Way to Independence.