The Yes vote to GOS fiscal measures upsets CDC troops

1.0CATBLOChttps://daguer.blogactiv.eudaguerhttps://daguer.blogactiv.eu/author/daguer/The Yes vote to GOS fiscal measures upsets CDC troopsFormer president Mr. Jordi Pujol, tries to calm down militants saying that economic discrimination justifies independence Duran´s opinion prevails over Mas-Colell´s criticism regarding income tax rise <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_and_Union">CiU</a> vote for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Spain">GOS </a>(Government of Spain) anti-crisis measures has not been fully understood in Catalonia. Not even for a large number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Convergence_of_Catalonia">CDC</a> rank-and-file members, according to several CDC militants close to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagrupament">RCAT</a> associates. These members have started to press the party's leaders. They don't quite understand the yes vote, specially after voting against Mr.Mariano Rajoy´s election as President. And also after Mr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreu_Mas-Colell">Andreu Mas-Colell</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreu_Mas-Colell">,</a> the Minister for Economy and Knowledge, categorical words opposing to those measures -that include a rise of the income tax. According to the Minister´s words, tax income rise risks to place Catalonia's fiscal burden at a suffocation level. In critics opinion "if they didn´t want to to vote against, they could have just abstained". Having that in mind, it is quite obvious the motivation of former president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Pujol">Jordi Pujol</a>'s article posted in his website. Mr. Pujol would have written it to try to appease the unease of militants. In the <a href="http://www.jordipujol.cat/en/jp/articles/11313">piece</a>, Mr. Pujol acknowledges that " Catalonia as a country could be driven to unviability, (...) not because of the economic consequences of independence, but the impossibility – as a result of economic discrimination –of Catalonia to respond not only to the needs of wealth creation or the support for our language and culture, but also to build a truly bona fide society for all her citizens. This, as much or more than any other argument, would be a valid reason to opt for independence. " However, some analysts consider that the yes vote can also be read having in mind the traditional tensions between CDC and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3_Democr%C3%A0tica_de_Catalunya">UDC</a>. And more specifically as a Mr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Antoni_Duran_i_Lleida">Duran</a>'s victory not only over Mr. Mas-Colell, but over the whole Catalan Government. Mr. Duran, as CiU´s top figure in Madrid, in this sense, would be setting the political line of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Catalonia">Government of the Generalitat</a>, without paying the costs that entails to head a department. Authored: RCAT Web Team Translation: MArich