Junts per Catalunya is promoting an initiative to declare independence in the middle of the decisive phase to negotiate the amnesty law. The party devised a parliamentary stunt to avoid staging explicit support for the Government in approving the decrees of economic measures.

Junts and the PSOE signed a commitment three months ago to give “stability” to the legislature, but both partners maintain a constant pulse. The push for a new parliamentary ingenuity related to independence has fueled speculation in the final stretch of the amnesty negotiation.