Catalan president Pere Aragonès has closed the political year, prior to the start of summer holidays, with a press conference after the weekly meeting of the Catalan cabinet in which he has again defended his proposal for a Clarity Agreement to set “rules” for self-determination aspirations and also urged Together for Catalonia (Junts) to “take advantage of the opportunity” that the independence movement has on the table when negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as head of a new Spanish government. And neither of the two things pleased the president of Junts, Laura Borràs, who reacted to Aragonès’s words by affirming that the head of the Catalan government is “disconnected” from the reality of the independence movement, and noting that Aragonès’s party, the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) fell from 23 to just 14 representatives in the July 23rd election. “Coming out and talking about the dialogue table and the clarity agreement today only shows his level of disconnection from the reality of independentism”, criticised Borràs in a tweet, also chiding Aragonès for talking about her party’s votes with regard to Pedro Sánchez’s investiture:
