First date between PSOE and Together outside Spain after the investiture of Pedro Sanchez with the presence of a international verifier. Socialists and post-convergents met this Saturday in Swiss to lay the foundations for a dialogue that both parties trust will last throughout Sánchez’s mandate and that will serve as guardian of the progress of the pact reached for the president’s re-election.
Under maximum secrecy, the delegations have addressed the calendar and the issues to be discussed in these monthly meetings that, at least until the former president Carles Puigdemont have their return assured without going to jail with the amnesty law, they will continue to be held outside the State. The first agreement is that Francisco Galindo Veleza Salvadoran diplomat, be the mediator and coordinate the verification mechanism, a task that he has already started this Saturday by officiating the meeting in Switzerland.
The PSOE delegation has been limited to the Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdanand on his right hand in Ferraz, Juan Francisco Serranowhile the Junts delegation has been formed by the trident that already piloted the previous negotiations –Puigdemont, Jordi Turull and Miriam Nogueras-.
Junts, complying with what was said, has demanded from the PSOE a referendum on the independence of Catalonia, taking advantage of article 92 of the Constitution and the transfer of 100% of the taxes paid in Catalonia; while the socialists continue to support the development of the 2006 Statute and “measures that allow financial autonomy and access to the market” of the Generalitat.
The meeting began at 10:00 local time and was concluded without the journalists present in Geneva locating the exact location, since the interlocutors have declared maximum secrecy – a recipe that the verifier would have also requested – in order not to torpedo the trust achieved. and so that the agreements are triggered.
The mission of the mediator
Galindo Velez (San Salvador, 1955) has been ambassador of El Salvador in countries such as France and Colombia and representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in different missions and now must direct the verification in which the foundation participates Henry Dunantthe entity that mediated in the disarmament of ETA and that knows the Catalan conflict because it has already accompanied the Government since 2018 and at the beginning of the dialogue table in 2020 and until the breakup of the Consell Executiu, as EL PERIÓDICO advanced.
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“The two parties appreciated their commitment to making their experience and willingness to contribute to reaching a political and negotiated solution to the conflict available to the parties,” the interlocutors noted in a statement after the meeting, in which they underlined the cordiality of Quote. Cerdán, already at the airport, stated that the meeting “went well” and announced that this forum inaugurated today will not meet again in 2023. In the remainder of the year there will be a meeting between presidents, since Sánchez and Pere Aragones They will meet on December 21 at the Palau de la Generalitat as the first step to reactivate the dialogue table.
The PSOE must strike a balance to satisfy all parties, although the ambition remains the merger of the three tables (the dialogue table, the Junts table and the ERC) into a single, with a common verifier, something that the post-convergence is not open to accepting taking into account its strategic turn and the recovery of a peso in Madrid that makes them indispensable for Sánchez’s stability. And that will depend, they warn in Junts, on the fruits they collect at the table with the socialists, to the point where Puigdemont threatened to vote with the PP if the socialists do not comply. The popular ones are already expectant and Feijóo has mobilized the spokespersons in the Congress, the Senate and the European Parliament to activate any parliamentary mechanism to force the Government to report the content of this and all the meetings it holds with the independence movement.