against the clock, together has experienced a particular ‘electoral campaign’ to decide whether or not to remain in the coalition government chaired by the Republican Pere Aragones and the one he supported in the third vote of the investiture just one year and four months ago. The arguments, bitter between leaders, members of the Government, territorial positions and grassroots militants, to leave or leave the executive, are the following:
Arguments to follow in the Government
Don’t lose influence independentista. Or put the other way around, those who defend remaining in the Government allege that without a seat in the Consell Executiu, Junts will come closer to political irrelevance. He will not be able to pressure Esquerra in favor of the post-convergence proposals, especially in relation to the pro-independence strategy.
Responsibility. Given the current social and economic situation, abandoning the ‘consellerias’ is synonymous with a lack of commitment, especially when the budgets for next year are being drawn up by the Junts ‘conseller’ of Economy, James Giro. The training directs departments that control more than 60% of budget items. The supporters of the ‘yes’ allege that the party has to show management capacity in difficult times.
Do not leave ERC the center of the board political. Those who vote ‘yes’ to continuity in the Executive fear that Esquerra will carry out its left-wing tripartite project with more or less intensity in the alliance – it could be with specific support from the PSC and the ‘comuns’ – something that they believe distances to Catalonia of independence and certifies the definitive end of the (alleged) sovereignist unity.
For party interest. Junts is still under construction, especially at the territorial level, and needs the power that the Government represents – positions, salaries, influence – to unfold as a weighty formation and recruit post-convergent mayors who see in the Turull party a useful tool to present themselves in the town with the endorsement and support of whoever has the controls of part of the Execution.
To prevent Junts from being left in a political limbo, closer to anti-system positions than to those at the center of the board, and controlled by those who are not betting on a political force to use, but on a “national liberation” movement. At the extreme, the ‘yes’ would force leaders like Laura Borraswhich has ensured that the current Government lacks legitimacy, to decide its future and that of its faithful.
Arguments to leave the Government
for dignity. Esquerra has not heeded the demands of Junts to supposedly coordinate strategies and speed up the road to independence. To continue in the Government would be to capitulate before an intransigent ERC that has not addressed these claims for months and governs as if it had an absolute majority when it only has one more deputy than Junts. This ‘dignity’ drinks from a whole series of grievances: Puigdemont’s non-telematic investiture in 2018, the opposition to the then ‘president’ Quim Torra stripping him of his seat when he was disqualified, the decision to suspend Borràs as president of the Parliament or the rejection the members that Junts proposed for the dialogue table, as well as the rejection of Puigdemont’s Consell per la República.
Accelerate the path of independence. Force a crisis, along the lines of the “intelligent confrontation” strategy, which visualizes the ERC together with the PSC and the PSOE and unleashes a reaction from the combative independence movement in the form of mobilization and political alliance.
Being able to fully exercise opposition to the ERC strategy without the restriction of loyalty to the Government. Thus, to be able to propose an open and frontal dichotomy between the two visions of independence and to have carte blanche in Parliament to exercise frontal opposition to the ERC on all fronts.
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Show that Junts is not a traditional party, but a “movement”, which is not meant to hold power, but to force the seams to re-generate a conflict with the State in the form of permanent mobilization with peaceful acts of disobedience and non-cooperation, hardly compatible with sitting on a chair of the Consell Executiu.
Comply with the presentations of the recent party congress and Puigdemont’s roadmap and place Junts far from the neoconvergent terrain. Those who believe in the need to vote do not allege that the party runs the risk of becoming a PDECat 2.0, given the pressure from the neo-convergent sector towards temperate positions on the political board.