“They wanted to humiliate Catalonia,” said the renowned Spanish professor Javier Pérez Royo when the Spanish Government contested for the second time the consultation on 9 November. And the answer of the humiliated has been this: Some 2.25 million Catalans have participated in the consultation, which has been banned by the Constitutional Court. Over and above any ban. Under these conditions, few people waited so much, not even sovereigns.

In 2012, CIU, ERC, ICV and the Cup achieved 2.1 million votes (57% of the votes), representing 67% of the turnout. With this participation data of 9 November (approximately 43 per cent of the regular electoral roll), in high-turnout elections (more than 70 per cent), independence parties would achieve more than 50 per cent. And on Sunday, the alarm was again ignited in Madrid, the most effective factory so far of the Catalan independentists.

With different ups and downs, but en bloc, parties and sovereign social movements, led by the lehendakari, Artur Mas, have come this way. After the ban, they were serious doubts about whether Mas was able to bring the process to the end, but it has been, and above all, how. It has been strengthened, when that force comes better than ever to your party. But the marking of ANC and ERC is still there, early elections are called for in January or February and the wind is pushing Mas to do it, stronger than before. With these results, ICU rupture has also taken another step. How can we believe in the rupture when in the last 30 years the thread has been about to break and the relationship has always revived?

But did not miss any time on the night of 9N: “The message is that when we go together we advance more and better. An important message for the coming weeks and months.” Hours before he had hugged himself closely with David Fernández of the Cup, surely an honored man, with a first-hand image, one of those hugs that the father gives to his son, but also as a sign of the unit of the block that he has led. But it continues to gain positions. "Will he dare?" ", he's been constantly told about him, and yes, he's at the moment daring.

It is now going to send Mariano Rajoy the request for a real referendum, but in that sense, little is planned for investiture. Madrid is still closed and Mas can accept no less than the referendum, let alone when his closest rivals are going to ask him to declare the independence of Catalonia. But he must now decide on the date of an electoral advance, as he has been strengthened, but his government is entering a crude winter again, not only because, after losing ERC support, he has to extend the budgets. Catalonia’s public debt is around EUR 62 billion – 32% of its GDP – and it has been announced that by 2015 it will have to make cuts of EUR 4 billion. Does this situation allow you to act alone? It doesn't seem.

Okay, the elections, you can say Mas, but with the unitary list, that is, adding the lists of CIU and ERC. And it doesn't seem that the Oriol Junqueras party is willing to play, when it is believed that theirs can be the first match and, furthermore, believes that they can get more votes separately. In case you go hand in hand, But you will have to accept a bold and clear program on independence. Perhaps the declaration of independence is not, but rather the announcement of starting an independent state: Announce to the UN that the creation of the new state, the EU, the Spanish Government ... And it begins to take the first steps to start controlling money, such as the creation of an absolutely fundamental Catalan tax agency.

And for Euskal Herria, is there any message? Yes, no doubt. As lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu so often cites as a brake, these are two different processes, but the same also takes root Basque sovereigns and puts on the table two basic ideas that are not new: one, arrogance needs the cooperation of the political traditions that believe in it, first in civil society and then in the area of parties; two, when firmly believed in an idea, a large majority can be won and moved forward. And is this believed here? Still little, but more and more.”