The new Spanish legislature will mean the reactivation of the dialogue table of the State with the Generalitat and this Monday the president Pere Aragones has invited Junts and the CUP to be part of the Catalan delegation in this negotiation. Its the first time after the investiture of Pedro Sánchez that Aragonés formally formulates this invitation to the post-convergents and the anti-capitalists. “I open the door to those with whom we share objectives, to the entire independence movement“, he said in an interview on TV3.
The proposal is relevant because until now neither Junts nor the CUP have seen this negotiation instrument favorably. In fact, in 2021 Carles Puigdemont’s party was off the table after a clash with ERC that put the Government in check. Why should Junts and the CUP now change their minds and want to go to meet with the Government? The president of the Generalitat has argued that in this legislature there are the “historic opportunity” to influence Congress and Sánchez’s executive because the votes of ERC and Junts are decisive. “Never before has the independence movement had this capacity to influence Madrid,” he concluded.
To try to convince them, Aragonese He has also been convinced that this time the table will serve to “lay the foundations for voting”, that is, to hold a referendum. Although the PSOE has always flatly refused to study such a vote, the president argues that the socialists have always rejected pardons, the repeal of sedition or amnesty. until they accepted it. And they did it when they needed the independence votes in Congress. “The impossible becomes possible when you have a favorable situation,” she said. According to Aragonès, Junts and the CUP already have the offer to join the table – the post-convergents deny this – and “at the moment” they have not responded.
The impossible becomes possible when you have a favorable situation
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Apart from the referendum folder, Aragonès also aspires to exert his influence in the Government with two other issues: completing the comprehensive transfer of Rodalies and improve financing of the Generalitat. This is what he will raise with Sánchez himself in a meeting that he plans to hold in the “coming weeks.” In fact, on the issue of financing, he has explained that he will convene the Catalan parties to propose a “unique” system for Catalonia. He will resume, in this sense, the path that he already tried Artur Mas with the “fiscal pact” and that received the slamming of the door from the then popular government by Mariano Rajoy.
The new Government of Pedro Sanchez will begin this Tuesday and will do so with strong marking from the Generalitat. At least this is what the Government has been promising for days and this Monday it has ratified it the president, who has assured that what is important about Sánchez’s new cabinet will be “the facts” and not “the names.” He did not want to delve into the fact that the PSC has lost representation of two ministers.Miquel Iceta and Raquel Sánchez– to one –Jordi Hereu-. Sources from the Palau de la Generalitat do maintain that “the new Spanish government seems to disavow Illa and the PSC.”
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Beyond relations with the new Sánchez Government, Aragonès also has open fronts strictly Catalan that he must face. Politically, it has a minority of 33 deputies with which he has to survive daily in the Parliament and, despite this, he has assured that he is not considering bringing forward the elections. Socially, a drought that, as he himself acknowledged this Monday, is getting worse by the moment.
This is why it has announced that the Government will communicate new restrictions this Tuesday that, this time, will affect people’s consumption. His argument is that until now they have been agriculture and industry the most affected sectors and now it is the turn of citizens and other sectors such as tourism. Nor has he ruled out bringing water to Catalonia by boat if necessaryalthough it is not decided.