The former regional president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont admitted on Tuesday that a possible government of Pedro Sánchez or Alberto Núñez Feijóo is possible subject to various conditions, including amnesty for Catalan independentists.
At a press conference in Brussels, where he lives to escape Spanish justice, Puigdemont indicated the four necessary conditions for his Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party to open “historic” negotiations for the viability of the country’s new government, after the impasse caused by the legislative elections on July 23.
Amnesty and “permanent” abandonment of the judicial process against those involved in the 2017 separatist revolt; recognition of the “democratic legitimacy” of the Catalan independence faction; the creation of a “guarantee mechanism” for compliance with the agreements that may be established between the central government and the Generalitat of Catalonia and the definition of limits solely based on international agreements and treaties that refer to human rights (individual and collective) and fundamental freedoms.
The former Catalan leader reiterates that Catalonia’s attempt at self-determination in 2017 “was not a crime” and condemns the fact that his party is considered “the second greatest threat to the State after terrorism.” The amnesty is compatible with the Spanish Constitution and depends “exclusively on political will”, he affirms.
Puigdemont has not specified whether he prefers to negotiate with Feijóo’s Popular Party (PP) or Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE), which could form a government if they had the support of JxCat deputies.
However, so far only the socialist has shown himself open to a possible negotiation with the separatists, referring this Monday to the fact that the next legislature will “definitely leave behind” the open fracture in Catalonia in 2017.
Also this Monday, the Minister of Labor and leader of the platform of extreme left forces Somar, Yolanda Díaz, met in Brussels with Carles Puigdemont, in what was the first known public contact between a member of the Spanish Government and the former president of the regional executive of Catalonia since his flight to Belgium.
The meeting was poorly received by the right-wing and extreme-right parties (PP and VOX, respectively), which condemned the fact that the leader of Somar – one of the vice-presidents of the current government – had met with “a fugitive from justice”. “.
Source: TSF
