left deck vote against the government plan with economic and social measures to face the consequences of the war in Ukraine, if in the next few days Moncloa does not promote the necessary and not “cosmetic” measures before the case of espionage to the independence movement through the Pegasus system.
At a press conference at the Republican headquarters, the deputy general secretary and spokesperson for the ERC, Marta Vilalta, was asked if her party was considering voting against that decree that will be put to a vote in Congress this Thursday.: “Is it a possibility? Sí”, has affirmed the leader.
Although the Republicans threaten that scenario of not supporting the government decreeVilalta has pointed out that there are still days to go and the Executive of Pedro Sanchez “has time to live up to it” and assume “responsibilities”.
“We will see in the next few hours how the events evolve and how the actions are. And based on that, we will finish decide our position on upcoming votes in the Congress. We are facing a violation of rights and that conditions everything. It has broken trust, it has affected relationships and it will be very important to see what the government’s reaction will be, which until now is absolutely insufficient,” he asserted.
ERC will thus make the decision that it believes is “most appropriate” and always based on “being useful to the Catalan people”, since he is also aware of the importance for citizens of Thursday’s decree with economic and social measures to mitigate the effects of the crisis generated by the Russian invasion.
But at the same time, given the “seriousness” of this “scandal”, the Republicans warn: “All projects or initiatives can be jeopardized if the Government does not act as a transparent and democratic government. The one who breaks the confidence is the Government that has allowed a scandal of such magnitude. He will know the consequences or actions that he will have to do to regain confidence,” Vilalta said.
Debug responsibilities
And it is that, for Vilalta, the Moncloa “You can’t make it look like nothing happened”since “today there is no longer anyone who doubts that whoever is behind the case is the Spanish Government and that whoever has bought Pegasus is the State”.
For this reason, he added, the central Executive “cannot hide behind the Official Secrets Law or that it was not known, they cannot pretend that they did not have the information, because it would be doubly serious“, as well as a court order” can not sustain this, “he said.
Regarding the measures announced yesterday by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, after meeting with the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, Vilalta has called them “four cosmetic measures that are not enough”. “Investigation, information, transparency and assumption of responsibilities are needed,” he stressed.
What Vilalta has made clear is that ERC “will never abandon the banner of negotiation” and even less will it leave it in the hands of “those who do not deserve it and who, instead of betting on dialogue, what they seek is to illegally spy on the adversary.”
“We will not give up defending the bet on the negotiated route as the best way to resolve the political conflict,” said the ERC spokeswoman, who, regarding the calls from other pro-independence forces to break off the negotiation with the Government, ironized: “Has the Council said so for the Republic, Junts or what part of together?”.