The Catalan president, Quim Torra, has sent a letter to Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez asking for a meeting to "settle the terms of our dialogue" on self-determination. The text gives no deadline for an agreement, instead asking in vague terms for a meeting in Barcelona in the coming weeks.
Torra announced on Tuesday in the Catalan Parliament that he would ask for Sánchez to specify a proposal for self-determination before this November, else pro-independence deputies would withdraw their support for his government in the Congress.
The text of the letter reads:
Dear Prime Minister,
I'm writing to you to invite you to meet in the coming weeks in the Catalan government palace, as we agreed in July in our meeting in the Moncloa [the Spanish government palace].
It's essential that we settle the terms of our dialogue so that it should really play a role in resolving the political conflict. We must talk about everything in depth. About your project for Catalonia, and also about exercising the right to self-determination. It's the way to find a sustained and democratic solution to the conflict. The people of Catalonia deserves a brave response, different to the one it's received so far.
Presently, through my cabinet, we will establish contact to fix the aforementioned meeting.
Yours sincerely,
Quim Torra i Pla.