David Madíwho was the right hand of Artur Mas and a key member of the so-called General Staff that led the separatist process in the shadows, suggests taking advantage of the current situation, in which the PSOE needs the parliamentary support of the independentists, to achieve a profound reform of the State that favors Catalonia. The former Secretary of Communication of the defunct Convergència has published the book «Deserve the victory. An essential vision of the Catalan conflict» (Ed. Destino), where analyzes what can be achieved with Pedro Sánchez in the Moncloadespite the failure of 1-O.
According to the newspaper THE OBJECTIVEMadí dismantles some myths of the independence plan, such as the idea that it was a movement born of the people, from “bottom up.” He assures that it was a project of the Catalan elites, although of naive elites who did not know how to understand the power of the State.. With this book, Madí seeks to leave behind the “infantilism” of the nationalist movement in general, and of the ruling class in particular.
The former Secretary of Communication of the defunct Convergència also suggests that the Sánchez Government provides an opportunity for, together with the “Basque nationalists”, Spain becomes a “plurinational, plural, composite, federal State… or whatever you want to call it. They propose controlling taxes through a Catalan Treasury that manages all taxes, decentralize the judicial power and replace the Civil Guard and the National Police with the Mossos d’Esquadra.
In his book, Madí raises a «package of five major in-depth reforms of the Spanish State that lead to the establishment of a plurinational, plural, composite, federal State…». The first reform that he proposes is “the economic agreement for Catalonia, with the transfer of the Tax agency». He affirms that the national Treasury should “dissolve in acid” and that “no one makes a mistake” because “the AEAT It is the Bastille of the Catalans. According to Madí, it is totally constitutional for the region to manage its own taxes: «If the Constitution allows the Euskadi regime, its application in Catalonia can also be constitutional».
The second reform he defends is provide the Generalitat with “regulatory and corporate power” to be able to compete with the Community of Madrid, which he calls “Madrid DF.” Madí suggests that a state law on strategic sectors allows the Generalitat to create a Catalan agency for strategic sectors, with regulatory capacity over ports, airports, transportation, banking and finance, energy, telecommunications, biotechnology and the water cycle.
For Artur Mas’ number two, this is a unique opportunity, born of political contingency: «The current scenario does not arise from any internal conviction in the sovereignist formations, nor on the socialist side. It arises from the need of both sides, as so often happens in politics. Let no one be scandalized, neither here nor there. Necessity has allowed the investiture and restart of the political scene through the historic agreement of November 2023».
Paraphrasing the phrase of the 1-O leaders, «we will do it again», Madí says: «We will do it, but otherwise». In this guide to guide the independentists in this new phase, Artur Mas’s right-hand man emphasizes the need to «strong leaderships, capable of raising their heads above the always corrosive political situation of the moment».