Together for Catalonia has met its executive committee in Altafulla (Tarragona) this Thursday to assess current affairs and face the political period. An appointment that has passed placidly (except for some criticism of the results of the municipal elections and some municipal alliances) and marked by the announcement made by the ‘expresident’ Carlos Puigdemont during the course of it: that he will be the one to set the negotiating framework with the PSOE next Tuesday, September 5, at a conference in Brussels for the talks for a possible investiture agreement and that Sánchez cannot, much less give the investiture process has been completed or on track. Junts has closed ranks, but an issue not foreseen for now has appeared at the meeting: the possibility of submitting to a vote of the bases an eventual agreement with the PSOE. The answer: it’s not the time, yet.
The issue arose, outside of the official items on the agenda, when the deputy Joan Canadell, has asked about this possible query, according to various sources. It should be remembered that Junts has repeatedly flagged itself as a formation with an advanced internal democracy that leaves major decisions in the hands of its militants. It happened with the pact for the formation of the Government with ERC and with the decision to stop being part of that same Executive.
Canadell has obtained a generic response from the top, based on the idea that the executive will always have the last word, but without yet addressing whether such a consultation would be carried out. The argument is that the current situation is very far from the possibility of considering such a decision in relation to the militants because the formal negotiation has not yet begun, as he has warned. puigdemont this same Thursday. The consultation of the bases would allow those most in favor of the blockade and the confrontation with the State to defend an eventual vote against the agreement with the PSOE.
No investiture debate
It was precisely Puigdemont’s message on social networks announcing a conference on Tuesday in Brussels and alerting that there is still no negotiation underway, which has led the Junts leadership to close ranks despite the different existing views on the possibility of agreeing with the PSOE, after the first agreement with the socialist party in relation to the Table of Congress.
On the one hand, there are representatives of the party who are in favor of not wasting the opportunity to achieve a beneficial negotiation for the self-government of Catalonia, but avoiding at all times an electoral repetition that could leave Junts without the current decisive role in the investiture. Others, on the other hand, believe that Junts should not rule out the possibility of forcing a new electoral call because this would serve to demonstrate the ability to block and an extremely demanding position of the independence movement against the pactism of CKD.
In any case, this debate takes second place in the current context. The official statement leaves no room for doubt: “The executive has agreed that he be the ‘president’ puigdemont who next Tuesday, September 5 at 11 a.m. will make public to the media the framework that Junts will propose to everyone who is interested in opening negotiations”.
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The meeting was also scheduled to review the beginning of the political course and the challenges of the party, after the municipal elections and the subsequent alliances that were forged, and after the general elections were held, which have left jxcat in a decisive position, but which meant a notable drop in votes for the party. A training sector is critical of the results obtained.
On the other hand, and as EL PERIÓDICO advanced, the meeting has served to agree on the creation of a reduced core of leaders who will make executive decisions outside or by delegation of the executive, of which some forty people are part. This decision is part of the will of the party to Jordi Turull and Laura Borras to unite the internal discourse and work more executively on a day-to-day basis. The permanent commission maintains internal balances between supporters of the general secretary and the president.