Nearly 24 hours after Junts announced, without prior notice, that would get to the ‘president’ Pere Aragones a concrete proposal to sit down to negotiate, the Republicans received the message. And among the demands is the only one that the ‘president’ does not even think about negotiating, the reinstatement of the dismissed vice president, Jordi Puignero. In an interview with ‘La Vanguardia’, Aragonès details what all the sources in his environment have been advancing throughout the day, that the return to the Government of Puigenró, ceased due to the loss of confidence of the head of the Executiu after knowing this that his vice president knew about Junts’ plan to threaten to ask for a confidence vote, it was impossible.
And a few seconds after receiving the proposal, the reaction of the Republicans, the presidency of the Government and the party, was to understand that demand that Aragonès amend the dismissal of his vice president as “a sign of the null will reach an agreement”. Some voices even pointed out, right away, that there was no need to sit down to negotiate.
In any case, if a negotiation takes place, because of not denying dialogue, the bases are already laid to start what could be the last dance, the last negotiation between both forces, one way or another. linked since 2012. first with a parliamentary collaboration agreement, then with a electoral coalition which led to the first of the three joint governments. According to the deadlines that, once again, Junts has set, the time ends on Monday at noon.
The patience of the Republicans was running out as they saw the clock ticking down, annoyed that, once again, it was in the dynamics of an ultimatum. Some Republicans pointed out that this delay was the result of internal chaos that lives together and, others, that it was a strategy to reduce time of negotiation, fixed, by the convergents on Thursday, in 72 hours. Right up to the start of Monday’s JxCat executive when it’s due shape the question that militancy You must respond between Thursday and next Friday. Bearing in mind that on Saturday afternoon the agenda of Jordi Turull, who must sit down to negotiate with Pere Aragonès, is occupied by the demonstration to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 1-O, Republicans see how the temporary window narrows at the wish of their partners. Some suspicions confirmed with the content of the proposal
Esquerra attends Junts’ ups and downs and recalls that what he is presenting now, the concretions to the three points of his August 29 ultimatum, is exactly what the ‘president’ required of the post-convergent ‘consellers’ in the Consell Executiu del August 30th. “Just a month ago,” says a Republican, thus expressing the time lost in these 31 days.
The specifics are basic because while the claims of Junts move in the generic concepts, the Republicans get rid of them with great ease. This Friday it was the president of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, who, in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio, pointed out that his party “more than meets the three conditions” demanded by his partners.
Junqueras combined his fervent wishes for Junts to remain in the Government with any message to navigators, specifically that ERC was “prepared” to govern alone. In other words, the post-convergence rupture, if it occurs, does not cause anguish in the Republican ranks. The president of the ERC, in addition, once again recalled that pact that Junts remains in the Barcelona Provincial Council with the PSC and that, sarcastically, he said “I don’t understand” how they hadn’t already broken up and if they were considering breaking up with ERC.
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It was not the only cohabitation message ‘sociovergent’ issued by ERC, which was responsible for disseminating the common vote of both forces, in a resolution proposal in Parliament, in the context of the general policy debate, against the management of the FP. “They already vote as if they were the opposition,” said an ERC source. The Aragonès plan, to promote a via Canadian, was dismissed by the plenary session of the Chamber, as well as the motion that urged the ‘president’ to submit to a matter of trust
The pulse
Precisely, in Parliament, the ‘president’ opened this second session of the general policy debate by warning Junts that he intends to keep the institutions out of the squabbles between the parties and recalling that the decision on the continuity or not of the current Government is in the hands of who is going to decide whether to continue or not, that is, Junts, not him. “I hope it can be maintained & rdquor ;, he said after lamenting that this week’s parliamentary debate has focused more on the threat on the question of confidence than on the crisis or on the proposal for a Canadian path to self-determination, than the ‘ president’ announced last Tuesday.