Junts per Catalunya has confirmed the decision to stop governing with the PSC in the Barcelona Provincial Council, advanced by EL PERIÓDICO, and will seek an agreement with other forces to displace the socialists from the institution. The party has argued that the pact between PSC, Comuns and PP to govern the city council of Barcelona to the detriment of Xavier Trias, from Junts, marks a “before and after” and has appealed for “coherence” and the prioritization of the pact between independentistas, despite the fact that during this legislature the The government agreement in the Provincial Council has been with the PSC. The spokesperson, Joseph Riushas avoided ruling out the PP in the talks that the party will open to govern the Provincial Council.
“We have decided to forge an alternative with the PSC in the Barcelona Provincial Council, with other political forces, this is the task that we will carry out in the coming days”, the spokesman confirmed. “It is a very coherent bet with what we have been doing up to now, the commitment that we acquire with the citizens cannot be changed from one day to the next”, he added. Asked why four years ago “what happened in Barcelona on June 17 has shown that a decision was made that was in the opposite line of all the discourse that had been made in the last four years, in the ‘reunion operation’ of the PSOE; four years ago Junts per Catalunya did not exist, there was no national executive, a national council, an articulated party”, he has used to argue the change of position on the Provincial Council.
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Despite the proposal by Trias himself and moderate sectors of Junts to reissue the pact with the PSC four years ago, given the good harmony between the two partners during the legislature, the commitment to an independentist alternative has prevailed. Rius has avoided assessing the internal reflections in the executive that has endorsed the decision. “The Provincial Council does not belong to anyone, nor does it belong to the PSC, in this sense Junts is committed to structuring with other forces policies an alternative to the PSC to govern the Barcelona Provincial Council and we will open conversations with all the groups”, insisted Rius.
“I reiterate that we are committed to an alternative majority with other political forces and we will open talks in the coming days,” he replied literally. Rius in relation to whether the PP will be among the parties with whom Junts will meet in the coming days.