外界期待已久的他在地方议会的发言（他曾在发言中承诺宣布加泰罗尼亚从西班牙独立）最终演变为在不进一步疏远西班牙中央政府的情况下，安抚激进民族主义盟友人民团结候选党（CUP）的一次混乱的行动。
His long-awaited speech to the regional parliament, in which he had promised to declare independence from Spain, ended up being a muddled effort to placate his radical nationalist allies, the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), without further alienating the central government in Madrid.