After what Together have asked the president Pere Aragones that “not speak on behalf of third parties” during the general policy debate, the Government’s response has not been long in coming. “The president speaks on behalf of the entire citizenry of Catalonia and does not speak on behalf of any specific party,” defended the executive’s spokesperson, Patrícia Plajaat a press conference this Tuesday.
In this sense, he insisted that “whenever he intervenes as president, he does so as president of the entire citizenry, of the eight million Catalans.” And he concluded by ensuring that Aragonés “expresses his opinion with the legitimacy of being the president of all Catalans.”
This morning, the Junts spokesperson, Monica Saleshas accused Aragonès of speaking “on behalf of third parties” and has warned that the negotiations are between parties “and not between governments“. Furthermore, in a very harsh speech against Aragonès, he asserted that “whoever has led the ‘letting it be’, the breakdown of the unity of pro-independence parties and entities, cannot lead the solution to the conflict through the exercise of self-determination”.
Also the ‘expresident’ Carles Puigdemont He has distanced himself from the ERC negotiations for the amnesty and has warned that he does not feel “concerned.”
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On the other hand, as President Aragonés has done during his intervention in the general policy debate in Parliament, Plaja has maintained that the amnesty is “the starting point” of the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, but that it is necessary open a second phase to set the conditions for holding a referendum. In this sense, he has kept the clarity agreement on the table.
“The clarity agreement has to be a tool to establish some criteria,” stated the Government spokesperson, who added: “It has to be a tool that serves both pro-independence parties and non-independence parties that recognize that there is a political conflict”.