Oriol Junqueras has resumed this weekend the pulse of Catalan politics after his journey of almost 15 days through Latin America. And at a time when the spotlight is on the relationship between ERC and the PSC, on account of the budgets, because Junts’s ‘no’ is already taken for granted, the president of ERC has chosen to take two steps back and focus, again, on post-convergents. The Republican has called on Junts to abandon his “egoism & rdquor; and to “roll up your sleeves & rdquor; in favor of the budgets of the Generalitat.
Junqueras’s words came a few hours after the Junts spokesman, Josep Rius, explained his suspicions that in reality ERC and the PSC have already closed a reciprocity agreement between the accounts of the State and those of the Generaliatat, and therefore This made a move and warned that it will not act “as a comparsa” if such an alliance exists. “If there was a pact, explain it to us and we will stop the machines,” the spokesman explained. Meanwhile, the PSC is also putting pressure on ‘president’ Pere Aragonès to precisely confirm or not the agreement between the Esquerra and the Socialists.
“Does Aragonès want some budgets with the socialists? Yes or no?” This is the dichotomous question that the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, launched the ‘president’ to respond publicly and explicitly. A symptom of how the opposition leader’s patience begins to wear thin as he approaches decemberthe key month to settle whether or not the accounts of the Generalitat are channeled for 2023.
Aware of that ‘deadline’, that everything that is not achieved now and is left for January will be trapped in the web of pre-election climate of the municipal ones, also the ‘comuns’ tighten the screws of the calendar and demand bases for an agreement this very week. Junts also agrees on this, denouncing that Aragonès does not seem to be in a hurry to close some key accounts in the current context of crisis.
However, it is assumed that to the despair of the PSC, Junqueras did not make a single reference to the Socialists. Perhaps he considers that the page has been turned too soon on the post-convergent veto, that is, that this approach of ‘erasing’ himself from the negotiation will not pass the bill that the Republicans would like.
“Surely they are not the ones they would want & rdquor; , accepted the leader of Esquerra, but the citizens “deserve that we put all the tools at their disposal, especially in an economic moment like the present & rdquor ;, he continued. And that tool is, of course, the budgets that, by the way, have not yet been approved by the Executive.
After criticizing “the tacticism and myopia that always accompany short-termism”, Junqueras pointed out that “now is not the time to expose each other. In fact, perhaps it is better that that moment never comes, but in any case it cannot be now, with runaway inflation and businessmen, freelancers, families and ordinary citizens& rdquor; suffering to make ends meet.
Junqueras’s amendment to the Junts way of acting was total. Because the same attributes described above, which can be summarized in that the post-convergents bet on looking exclusively for the benefit of their party, the Republican leader hung them on his former partners in the debate on the reform of the penal code. And specifically, in that of sedition and the new crime of public disorder.
“It is obvious that it is better that those who seek instruments to go against democracy have the fewest possible options,” said Junqueras, referring to the judicial establishment since, once the crime of sedition is repealed, it will be more difficult for judges to rage. , as the independence movement believes, with those who still have open causes.
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“If we have achieved this, what would we not obtain if we all went together? & rdquor; Junqueras wondered, implying that the post-convergents are dedicated to putting sticks in the wheels of negotiation with the State.
As always, in Junqueras what is said matters as much as what is silent. And the word that he did not utter this time was that of the crime of embezzlement and his reform. The search for a way out between the Government and ERC has entered the phase of maximum secrecy and Junqueras, who in an interview with this newspaper already joined the ‘yes’ to the General State Budgets with this new crime of embezzlement, has not Mented this Monday.