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The leader of the PP in Barcelona City Council, Daniel Sirera, explored a agreement with Junts in mid-August for the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo as president of the Government. As published this Wednesday by La Vanguardia and confirmed by Sirera himself, leaders of Junts and the PP held a meeting in Barcelona during the first half of August to address the possibility of an understanding for the formation of a new Government. before the independentistas formally opened negotiations with the PSOE which led to a pact with the socialists.
It was before the Congress Board was established and the meeting, which was held at the Alma hotel in the Catalan capital, was attended by the president of Junts in the Parliament, Albert Batet (Carles Puigdemont’s trusted man), the Barcelona councilor Josep Rius and, on the part of the PP, the leader in Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, and the political advisor Xavier Domínguezwho participated in the Feijóo campaign.
The contacts between both parties to explore possible pacts already transcended last summer, when the pro-independence and popular parties admitted that they quickly They ruled out the possibility of reaching any agreement.
In statements this Wednesday to Rac1, Sirera explained that it was a “cordial” meeting in which Junts proposed amnesty and a self-determination referendum, which made any type of pact “unviable.”
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According to the popular mayor, Feijóo was not aware of this meeting, which JxCat requested when considering the PP a “more trustworthy” party than the PSOE. “The people of Junts are aware that Pedro Sánchez is a compulsive liar and cannot be trusted“said Sirera, who added that if the PP had accepted what Junts asked for, “Feijóo could have been president”, although he stressed that the PP is not “for a chair but to improve the lives of Catalans.”
JxCat sources consulted by EFE have stressed that it was a “informal meeting, at the request of the PP” to explore the intentions of the independence party regarding the policy of pacts. At the meeting, the aforementioned sources add, Junts made it clear that it would not be part of any agreement with the extreme right and that it “distrusts” both the PP and the PSOE when negotiating.