Aragonese in Glasgow and Borràs in London

The randomness of the agendas, or the practice of counter programming, will allow the Catalan independence movement to transfer its great derby, the one that ERC and Junts play forever, to Great Britain.

With just 100 minutes of difference, the mailboxes of the Catalan media received this Thursday paths press calls. One, that of the ‘president’, Pere Aragonès, with details of your trip to Glasgow and their attendance, on Sunday and Monday, at the COP-26 climate summit.

The other, that of the President of Parliament, Laura Borràs, who pays visit to the House of Commons, in London, on Monday. 400 miles away, 640 kilometers, a little more than what separates Madrid from Barcelona.

The agendas have an obviously different coat. Aragonès meets with various associations of sub-state governments and maintains bilateral contacts with the executives of Baden-Wuerttemberg (for that of the ‘four engines’ of Europe), the state of Washington (the one with Olympia, 100 kilometers from Seattle, capital) and Corsica

One morning at Portcullis House

Borràs, for his part, will meet with el Speaker of the House, or ‘speaker’, Sir Lindsay Hoyle; with the deputies of the House of Commons and with the deputies of the All Party Parlamentary Group on Catalonia. This discussion group on the ‘procés’ brings together 21 parliamentarians from up to six groups in the Chamber.

Any common links between Aragonès and Borràs? The Scottish SNP, the hegemonic independence party in the old kingdom. Aragonese will coincide at the summit of one of those sub-state associations with Scottish ‘premier’ Nicola Sturgeon. And Borràs will be welcomed, so go through the door of Portcullis House, by SNP deputy Joanna Cherry.

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Scottish balances

The big question is to what extent the Scottish independence supporters will make balances. Seeing yourself only with Junts, with which she was a candidate for the Generalitat, would break, even if only with a deputy in Westminster, with the preventions that the SNP maintained in its day with Carles Puigdemont, for his unilateral actions, the 1-O and the DUI. Of course, the refusal of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to allow a second referendum in Scotland may now bring the SNP closer to a more unilateral thesis. On the other hand, an eventual, and for the moment not scheduled, meeting in Glasgow between Aragonès and Sturgeon, would overshadow the entire visit to Portcullis House in Borràs.