The specific proposal of the postconvergents has been waiting almost 24 hours since its announcement
Almost 24 hours after Junts announced, without prior notice, that it would send President Pere Aragonès a concrete proposal to sit down to negotiateRepublicans got the message. And among the requirements is the only one that ERC a priori, ruled out any possibility of being met, the restitution of dismissed vice presidentJordi Puignero.
The bases are already laid to start what could be the last dance, the last negotiation between both forces. of one or the other linked since 2012. According to the deadlines that, once again, Junts has set, time runs out monday at noon.
The patience of the Republicans was running out as they saw that the clock was ticking, annoyed because, once again, they were in the dynamic of an ultimatum. Some Republicans attributed that this delay was the result of internal chaos that lives together and, others, that it was a strategy to reduce the negotiation time, set, by the convergers on Thursday, at 72 hours. Just until the beginning of the JxCat executive on Monday, when the question that the militancy must answer between next Thursday and Friday must be shaped. Taking into account that on Saturday afternoon the agenda of Jordi Turull, who must sit down to negotiate with Pere Aragonès, is occupied by the demonstration to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 1-O, the Republicans see how the time window is narrowed by wishes of their partners.
Esquerra witnesses the comings and goings of Junts and remembers that what he is presenting now, the concretions to the three points of his ultimatum of August 29 It is exactly what the president required of the post-convergent ministers at the Consell Executiu on August 30. “Just a month ago,” says a Republican, thus expressing the time lost in these 31 days.
The specifics are basic because while the claims of Junts move in the generic concepts, the Republicans get rid of them with great ease. This Friday it was the ERC president himself, Oriol Junqueras, who, in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio, pointed out that his party “fully meets all three conditionsthat their partners demand.
Junqueras combined his fervent wishes for Junts to remain in the Government with a message to sailors, specifically that the ERC was “prepared” to govern alone. In other words, the post-convergence rupture, if it occurs, does not cause anguish in the Republican ranks. The president of the ERC, in addition, once again recalled that pact that Junts maintains in the Diputación de Barcelona with the PSC and that, sarcastically, he said “not understand” how they had not broken it And if they were considering breaking with ERC.
It was not the only message of ‘sociovergent’ cohabitation issued by ERC, which was responsible for disseminating the common vote of both forces, in a resolution proposal in Parliament, in the context of the general policy debate, against the management of the FP . “They already vote as if they were opposition“, pointed out an ERC source.
The pulse
Precisely, in the Parlament, the president opened the second session of the general policy debate by warning Junts that he intends to keep the institutions out of the squabbles between the parties and recalling that the decision on the continuity or not of the current Government is in hands of who is going to decide whether to continue or not, that is, of Junts, not of him. “I hope you can keep&rdquor ;, he pointed out after lamenting that the parliamentary debate has focused more on the threat over the question of trust than on the crisis or the Canadian path.
“We need institutions that are at the service of citizens and certain debates, doubts and noise do not contribute to projecting that this is being the case,” he snapped. “There are decisions that do not depend on me, everyone must make decisions as quickly as possible. My bet and priority is that the current Government can continue“, he insisted, asking for a “compact” Executiu and focused on responding to the socioeconomic crisis.
The head of the Junts group in the Parlament, Albert Batet, replied to the intervention of the ‘president’ summoning Aragonès to comply with the “specifications, guarantees and deadlines” on the three conditions post-convergence: unity in Madrid, dialogue table limited to amnesty and self-determination, and strategic direction of the procés. “President, we still have time to fix it, for our part we have all the will, for us it will not remain & rdquor ;, he said. He has until Monday to convince him of it.