The party was merged into Puigdemont's newTogether for Catalonia (Junts) on 19 July,[3] after negotiations with the PDeCAT to form a joint list ahead of thenext Catalan regional election foundered as a result of the latter's refusal to dissolve itself within JxCat.[4][5] Overall, the Crida has been pointed out as unsuccessful in its main goal of uniting all pro-independence parties under its umbrella,[6][7] with the party not having been fielded on its own to contest any single election,[8] but its establishment and permanent stress on the PDeCAT has been said to help hasten the latter's internal crisis.[9]
The Crida was established as a political platform on 16 July 2018, withCarles Puigdemont,Quim Torra andJordi Sànchez being the driving force behind its establishment.[10][11] On 8 January 2019 it was registered as a political party in theinterior ministry,[12][13][14] and on 26 January it held its constituent congress.[15]
Ahead of theApril 2019 Spanish general election, party members voted against running on their own and in favour of joining a "unitary candidacy" of pro-independence parties together with theCatalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT).[16][17] Failure in negotiations between both the PDeCAT andRepublican Left of Catalonia (ERC) for such a list ultimately ended in the Crida declaring that they would not contest the general election nor would formally supporting any candidacy,[18][19] though it supported the participation of several of its members in theTogether for Catalonia (JxCat) alliance.[20]
After theNovember 2019 Spanish general election, the party intended to stage a refoundation of the post-Democratic Convergence of Catalonia political space, bringing together the three political entities resulting from CDC's demise—the PDeCAT, JxCat and itself—either as a joint entity or in the form of a coalition,[21][22] The CNxR did not rule out running on its own in an eventual election if an agreement with the PDeCAT was not possible, as it ruled out dissolving itself into a mere continuation of CDC's legacy.[23] Negotiations stalled as a result of theCOVID-19 pandemic and resumed in June 2020.[24]
On 8 July 2020, it was proposed that the party be merged and subsequently dissolved intoCarles Puigdemont's upcoming party—a newTogether for Catalonia—on 25 July.[25][26] As the Crida before it, the new Together for Catalonia party—whose establishment was unveiled on 2 July 2020—aimed at reorganizing the post-CDC space and bring together supporters of unilateral independence ahead of thenext Catalan regional election, but unlike the CNxR it was to break all ties with the PDeCAT, after negotiations failed between the former and the latter to merge themselves into a new political force under the umbrella of JxCat (whose naming rights belonged to the PDeCAT).[27][28][29] The Crida held a vote among its members from 16 to 18 July to decide on its ultimate fate,[30] including a proposal providing for its transformation into a foundation andthink tank within Puigdemont's new party,[31][32] with over 95% of party members approving of the merger.[3][33]
With an ambition to unitesocial conservatives andleft-wing supporters of Catalan independence, the party was a big tent and mass movement organisation with the main ideology of supportingCatalan independence and the establishment of a newCatalan Republic.[34] It aims at serving as the umbrella for a single Catalan independence list,[35] establishing a structure that mirrors theScottish National Party,[36] while some analysts have described it as "convergentperonism" and as a mixture ofChantal Mouffe's "populist moment and a reminiscence of the CDC's political project in the 1980s and 1990s which endep up identifyingJordi Pujol as the bulwark ofCatalan nationalism.[34][37] Former Catalan minister Ferran Mascarell argued that it intended to "transcend" political parties, whereasTogether for Catalonia's spokespersonGemma Geis claimed that it was "a tool" comprising "individual adhesions" and "not a political structure with party representative quotas".[38] Internally, the party was said to possess three main ideological currents: left-wing,social democracy andliberalism.[21]
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