The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont defended this Thursday the need to maintain caution in negotiations with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and refused to change this position “no matter how much hurry some people are in.”
The meeting of the leadership of Together for Catalonia (JxCat), which took place in Brussels headed by Puigdemont, ended this afternoon without reaching an agreement with the PSOE for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Hours later, Puigdemont wrote on his X social network account: “We have always said that when it comes to the Spanish political system there is little care.”
“We will not change the prudence and precautions that we have maintained until now, no matter how much hurry some people are in.”
The leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Oriol Junqueras, asked today about the fact that JxCat has not yet closed the agreement with the PSOE, asked for “maximum responsibility” from that party.
“We want to think that all political spaces will help everything go well,” Junqueras stressed, after announcing the agreement reached between Republicans and PSOE.
The PSOE, led by Pedro Sánchez, and ERC, led by the president of the regional government, Pere Aragonès, had already announced on Tuesday an amnesty agreement for those involved in the attempt at self-determination in Catalonia that culminated in a unilateral declaration of independence. in 2017.
The agreement has been closed and formalized today with the signing of a document by the socialist leader and current Minister of the Presidency of the Government, Félix Bolaños, and Oriol Junqueras, president of ERC, former vice president of the regional executive and one of those convicted in the 2017 process.
According to sources from both parties, in addition to the amnesty, the agreement also includes the transfer of the management of Catalonia’s commuter and regional trains to the regional government, as well as issues related to the financing of the autonomous community.
Amnesty is the demand of the Catalan parties to facilitate a new left-wing government in Spain, with a coalition of the PSOE and the Somar platform, led by Pedro Sánchez.
In addition to ERC, the amnesty demands JxCat, Puigdemont’s party, which has lived in Belgium since 2017 to escape Spanish justice.
To be re-elected President of the Government, Sánchez still needs the vote of the deputies of three other nationalist and independence parties in Galicia and the Basque Country (Galician Nationalist Bloc, Basque Nationalist Party and EH Bildu).
The agreement with ERC is the first that the PSOE closes with the parties it needs to make the new Government viable through Parliament.
If there is no new prime minister appointed by parliament before November 27, Spain will have to repeat the elections.
Source: TSF
