Less than two weeks to avoid returning to the polls in Catalonia (the deadline is January 9, 2016) everything is still at a standstill again: after several votes, the militants of the pro-independence extreme left have postponed the decision on the formation of a secessionist government to aim for a separation from Madrid.
The general assembly of the Popular Unity Candidacy (Cup) therefore ended up in a stalemate, with half of the militants - or 1.515 - in favor of giving the task of forming the new executive to the outgoing regional president, the conservative Artur Mas, and the other half opposite: exactly 1.515 deputies rejected the idea.
So now we're back to voting in the assembly on January 2 next. The final decision will have to be taken by the political council of this small anti-capitalist, anti-EU and anti-NATO formation. The Council is made up of 60 representatives of the territorial assemblies and of political groups and trade unions which in turn form the Cup. Mas needs at least another 10 deputies to obtain the investiture. And the small radical pro-independence formation elected ten Catalan regional deputies in the elections of 27 last September.
