Pedro Sanchez does not rule out calling Carles Puigdemont to negotiate his inauguration as president of the central government. “We are in full negotiation, we are in full negotiation,” Sánchez insisted in an informal huddle with journalists at the reception on October 12 when asked if he was going to phone the former president of the Generalitat. The head of the Executive has spoken with Oriol Junqueras in recent hours to negotiate the support of the ERC deputies for his candidacy for the presidency of the Government.
Journalists have raised on several occasions whether there will be direct contact by telephone with Puigdemont, who fled Spain in October 2017, and Sánchez has not wanted to clarify it, emphasizing that they are in full negotiations and that he meets and speaks – -both things– “with the parliamentary groups.” The leader of the PSOE has been voluntarily ambiguous with the matter for being Fully open negotiation.
In the talk at the Royal Palace he emphasized that what the PSOE proposes to the Catalan independence groups will be “constitutional.” and he has avoided commenting on Sumar’s initiative for amnesty. Sánchez recalled that there are at least five parliamentary groups that defend the measure of grace for the people involved in the ‘procés’ who have outstanding accounts with the justice system.
In any case, the socialist leader has marked at various times the difference between ERC and Juntssince he has been collaborating with the former in Congress for years.
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This week, Sánchez has not hesitated to break the ice with the independence supporters in person. The president, this same Wednesday, telephoned Junqueras to try to link the investiture to the Budgets. Despite this, he received a resounding no from the Republicans. “ERC’s votes are sweated. The investiture is one party, the budgets are another party,” Gabriel Rufián stated later, after meeting with the acting head of the Executive.
The boos
Regarding the whistles and boos he received upon his arrival at the military parade, the socialist leader regretted that “PP and Vox” are trying to “appropriate common symbols.” “Spain is more plural and diverse than the intolerable one of Vox and the PP,” he continued before claiming that he has the task of Felipe VI to try to seek support to be invested after Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP) has failed to do so. .