Two weeks have passed since the telephone conversation about the investiture between Pedro Sánchez and Oriol Junqueras and, according to the second, the negotiation between socialists and republicans is not progressing as it should. The president of ERC warned this Thursday PSOE that “what is impossible is for there to be an agreement if the Government does not nothing to reach an agreement“.
Junqueras He thus joins the republican voices that have been warning the socialists for two days that things are not working. This Wednesday the president already did it Pere Aragones -“We are not going well,” he said- and the councilors Laura Vilagrà and Natàlia Mas. In fact, the president of ERC It has also reinforced the idea that the problem is not so much reaching an agreement on the issues linked to the ‘procés’ -amnesty and dialogue table-, but rather those linked to social issues: the transfer of Rodalies and the improvement of the financing. “If the Government wants an agreement, it will have to work in these two areas,” he said.
The leader of the Republicans is on a trip to Ireland to strengthen ties with Sinn Fein. There are politicians who, when they are traveling, hate having to talk about ‘domestic’ issues. But Junqueras He has not given up today on launching his particular warning to the PSOE: with the amnesty and with the dialogue table it will not be enough to have the votes of Esquerra. He must also attend to “the folder of economic and social issues.”
In this folder the main problem is the money. The positions are far apart regarding the amount of resources that must accompany the transfer of Rodalies to the Generalitat, and how the financing of Catalonia is improved. The latter is a subject that is always complicated by the sensitivities that are created between autonomous communities. Junqueras would resolve it like this: “What is good in terms of freedom, justice and prosperity for Catalan society, is ultimately also good for the Spanish citizenship“.
The Irish reference
The republican leader made these statements after meeting with the former leader of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams. For Junqueras, the northern irish conflict among supporters of reunification with Ireland and those of maintaining ties with the United Kingdom have something that the conflict between Catalonia and the rest of Spain should take note of. Are the Good Friday Agreementswhich opened the door to a referendum on reunification without a specific date.
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“The Good Friday Agreements are an extraordinary example because they put on top the table the possibility to hold a referendum,” said the Republican. A vote that Sinn Féin wants to do in the short term, but for which there has never been a clear date. Esquerra sum the irish case to its already long list of international examples to imitate in Catalonia, which include the Quebec, Scottish and Montenegrin referendums. “We want to do exactly the same thing”, he said this Wednesday from belfast.
Junqueras has once again insisted on his defense of the referendum for Catalonia, but without setting a date on the horizon. One of ERC’s learnings from 1-O is that placing a point on the calendar was more of a problem than a solution. “It’s never a question of time. It is always a question of strength and democratic majorities,” she concluded.