“TO Pedro Sanchez We have already told him what we had to tell him”, points out the ERC leadership. A message that was also part of the agenda at the meeting that the ‘president’ Pere Aragones and the Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolanosmaintained discreetly last Thursday: the interpretation made by both the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor’s Office of the reform of the Penal Code that they agreed to it is not innocuous for the relationship between the two governments.
The Republicans warn that they are willing to maintain a pulse with the Moncloa before the risk that leaders like Josep Maria Jove and Lluis Salvado they can go to jail – the public ministry asks for them 7 and 6 years in prison, respectively, in addition to the disqualification of the ‘councilor’ Natalia Garriga– For the organization of 1-O. Especially while the Government continues without publicly acknowledging that the judiciary is reading the embezzlement reform that differs from the spirit in which the ERC and the PSOE agreed to it.
“We want to say clearly to any minister who believes that the independence process has ended that this path is more alive than ever and that it has more international support never; and that we will take advantage all levers derived from the repressive action to build these complicities“, has warned the leader of ERC, oriol junquerasin the intervention before the national council of the party this Saturday.
They have been a few brief words intended to make it clear that, contrary to what the Socialists are asking for, the case of Jové and Salvadó does have a impact on dialogue fluid that Moncloa defends that it maintains with the Generalitat while Aragonès makes it clear that relations they are not “normalized”. The Socialists end the dialogue on the conflict and ensure that the exchanges with the Government are now focused on issues related to management; and Republicans maintain that, no matter how hard you try to look the other way, the consequences of prosecution they are not resolved.
Besides the long standing ovation that the party has dedicated to Jové, Salvadó and Garriga, whom Junqueras has asked to go on stage with him, the ERC president has referred to them as “heroes of democracy”. And it is that the action by the judicial bodies, Junqueras has warned, supposes the “biggest democratic challenge” which the State has had to face. A notice addressed directly to Sánchez in an electoral year in which the president is risking the continuity in the Moncloa. The dialogue table is amortized, the Republicans imply, it will have a cost.
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Aware of how the requests for sentences that the Prosecutor’s Office has made and that the penal reform remains on paper influences the mood of its troops, the ERC leadership tries to instill morale in its leaders. Junqueras has indicated that if his party is “the more retaliated of the country’s history” is because it is also the one that generates “more fear to the repressive apparatuses” of the State. If the courts are asking for high sentences for their leaders, it has continued, it is not because the agreed reform was not correct, but because part of the judiciary aims to “weaken” them.
But that attitude, he concluded, has to be embraced “with pride” by the formation and used to build “more and better complicities and alliances” in the international arena. As an example, he has given that the leader of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonaldhas promised, after meeting with Aragonès in Dublin, to recognize an independent Catalonia “if the Catalans so decide” if she governs Ireland.