Junts per Catalunya pushes in favor of Catalan in the EU but does not break the deck of negotiations with the PSOE, in which the official status of Catalan in the community institutions appeared as a precondition, not the only one, to support Pedro Sánchez in the investment.
In a brief statement released after the meeting of the general affairs commission of the 27 in which Latvia and Lithuania have opposed the official status of Catalan, Junts has demanded that the Government “step up diplomatic efforts” and announce “a date for the definitive approval of the official status of Catalan in the European Union.”
The ministers of European Affairs of the Twenty-seven have returned to debate today on the official status of Catalan in a Council on General Affairs of the EU, one of the demands of JxCat to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government.
Very measured text
Junts “confirms” that “there has been progress” in the official status of Catalan, but has demanded that the Government “intensify diplomatic efforts”: “You have to be aware that we are in discount time“warns the independence party.
However, Junts assures that they will be “attentive” to any developments in this regard “in the coming weeks”, as November 27, the deadline for Sánchez’s investiture, approaches and avoid an electoral repetition. The figure of the mediator and the recognition of Catalonia as a political subject are the main difficulties in the negotiations between JxCat and the PSOE for the investiture.
Sources from the independence party trust that these advances can be made at an upcoming EU meeting under the Spanish presidency. But in no case has this diplomatic setback in relation to Catalan caused the formation of ‘former president’ Carles Puigdemont to close the negotiating dynamic with the PSOE.
Moncloa’s “firm commitment”
Related news
The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, for its part, has celebrated the “firm commitment” of the Moncloa and Minister Albares in particular with the defense of the official status of Catalan despite it not being “easy.” Precisely, the leader traveled to Brussels two weeks ago to insist on this issue in several meetings with European leaders, as well as to emphasize that the European Parliament Bureau votes before the end of the year that Catalan can be used in plenary sessions.
For her part, the CUP deputy Laia Estrada has limited the current “blockade” “to the interests of the different families” of the European Union and has wanted to put the focus on Catalonia, accusing the Generalitat of acting in a “negligent” manner where “it does have powers” and of not being fighting against the “loss of social use” of Catalan. On the other hand, from Ciutadans, the deputy Anna Grau has accused Minister Albares of playing “a sad role” in Europe and of acting with “cynicism”, only to obtain the support of the independence groups for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.