undisguised satisfaction in the Republican ranks, not only because of the scope of his pact with the PSOE to facilitate the election of Francina Armengol as president of Congress, but also because of the comparison with what Junts has achieved. Both joys have a common link, which is the conversion of the approval of a amnesty law Of something impossible to something debatable. To this should be added, as a luxury dressing, the advances in the use of Catalan throughout the State administration (also in the judicial sphere, Achilles heel of the normalization of Catalan in Catalonia) and the creation of an investigation commission on the Catalangate. Issues, all three, on which the PSOE has voted against in the last two years.
The strategic direction of ERC considers, in addition, that the agreement by the Table of Congress, regarding the aforementioned amnesty, is double. Inasmuch as it is guaranteed that the governing body of the Lower House do not block the processing of a pardon law, Yes, but the PSOE is also being forced to study its feasibility. The discussion, therefore, is no longer whether ‘amnesty, yes or no’, but ‘how to do it’.
In the process of concretion
Some revenues, always according to ERC, which exceed those of a negotiation for the simple presidency of Congress and that already dot the one that will come next, that of the investiture.
It is in this where, they explain in the Republican headquarters on Calle de Calàbria, it must be specified How will this feasibility study be carried out?. Or in other words, how to achieve the effects of an amnesty without leaving the constitutional framework.
continuity thread
In fact, one of the ideas pursued by ERC is to establish a thread of continuity in all its steps in Madrid. The investiture negotiation has the preface of the Congress, in the same way that the election of Francina Armengol had the work of the dialogue table which, in turn, was born from the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, in 2019. He does not “start from scratch claiming maximums, like others. that looks very good but it is not practical”.
And yes, the ‘others’ are Junts. This long decade of ‘procès’ has meant that those who show gallons of experience and seniority are ERC and those who are singled out by the Republicans for their alleged dilettantism are the heirs of the ‘peix al cove’ of CiU.
winning hand
And it is that in the reading in the key of Catalan derby, between Republicans and post-convergents, the first ones are considered with the winning hand in this round by the Table of Congress. And they use as an argument that the issue of amnesty is addressed by the PSOE with ERC, but not together as he testifies that in the agreement that has also led to the party founded by Carlos Puigdemont to support the socialist, do not mind the pardon law.
The republican satisfaction can be attributed not only to the rivalry itself, but also to the fact that the facts prove the republican mantra of recent weeks right, when Junts designated itself as the sole decisive force in Madrid and the ERC management replicated how key they were the seven of one like the seven of the other.
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In addition, ERC considers that the Junts vote “in exchange for satisfaction of their conditions after a negotiation” reproduces the behavior of ERC. & rdquor; They have returned to doing politics, like us & rdquor;, presumes a Republican voice. That is to say, it is no longer possible to point to some as ‘sold’ for agreeing with the PSOE and, to the others, as ‘pure’ for remaining faithful to their steadfast demands.
The former leader of ERC in Congress, and frequent target of the most ultramontane sectors of the independence movement, precisely for making and defending a very ‘realpolitik’ vision with the State, Joan Tarda He bragged about it with amusement in a message on X in which he used the most common insults he has received in these years: & rdquor; Friends of Junts, welcome to the politics of the independentistas of the ERC ‘ñorda’ (sic), traitor and botifleraevidently.
friends of @JuntsXCat Benvinguts to the politics of the independentists of@Esquerra_ERC “nyorda & rdquor ;, “traïdora & rdquor; i “botiflera” obviously.
— Joan Tardà i Coma (@JoanTarda) August 17, 2023