ABSTRACT
The Catalan election of December 2017 was the fourth to be held in seven years; thus the time between creating a new party and preparing for an election was likely to be extremely short. At the Catalan level, there is an open question as to whether confluence approaches can work any better than alliance strategies when it comes to the navigation of internal diversity regarding the national question. The main difference between Catalunya en Comu and the electoral alliances was the idea of creating a common party that would seek to establish an organized citizen base in society, rather than simply proceeding through a series of elite negotiations between party leaders. The political resolution approved at the Assembly outlined a vision of Catalonia becoming a social and democratic republic, freely sharing sovereignty with a plurinational Spain.
