Despite the harshness with which the former president Carles Puigdemont has disdained ERC’s negotiating strategy with the PSOE in recent years, ensuring that “the ‘in exchange for nothing’ has gone to the trash can of history,” the president Pere Aragones has wanted to avoid the clash and has received with a kid glove the pact reached this Thursday by Junts to give its seven votes to the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “I am glad that we agree on the path of negotiation, with the agreements Catalonia wins,” the head of the Catalan executive limited himself to saying to the press in the corridors of the Parliament.
Aragonès wanted to highlight the fact that the amnesty law and the “agreements to improve the living conditions of citizens” can go forward, in reference to the pact reached between ERC and the PSOE last week for the transfer of Rodalies and the condonation of 20% of FLA debt.
The Republican spokesperson has expressed herself in a similar sense, Raquel Sans, in a press conference from the Parliament in which he did not want to get involved either. According to the spokesperson, Junts’ agreement with the PSOE “evidence that the path of negotiations” is what “allows us to move forward as a country” and she considers that the text signed this Thursday in Brussels, added to that of ERC, is “very good.” because “it allows progress in the second phase of the political conflict.”
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With this statement he wanted to defend that the recognition of “the existence of the political conflict” comes from the “previous legislature”, as well as the pardons or the repeal of the crime of sedition. But he has avoided going further. What he has done has been to claim that the amnesty “is not the end of anything”, he already considers that what it does is “set the counter to zero” in order to “move forward”, and he has celebrated the exoneration of cases such as those of tsunami Democratic or that of the CDR accused of terrorism.
From Madrid, but also about the agreement, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has spoken, Meritxell Serret, which is considered to mean that Junts enters “into the dynamics of the negotiation in order to advance the conflict.” Serret has made these statements from the capital, where he has met with several ambassadors to achieve the official status of Catalan in the European Union. On this matter, the head of Foreign Affairs has promised to continue “pressuring” to make it a “reality as soon as possible” and has demanded that the Government not lower “the level of demand” now that the investiture is guaranteed.