Perhaps it is the debate in which the passage of time is least noticeable. He TV-3 discussion among the heads of the party list in Barcelona it brought few surprises and fewer novelties. It is perhaps in Catalonia where the management of Pedro Sanchez. It is, therefore, the territory where the socialist candidate (candidate in this case) has less trouble.
The counterpart to not discussing management is that there is much discussion about whether or not to support Sánchez. In this, Albert Botran (CUP) and Miriam Nogueras (Junts) attacked, in fact, they continued to attack Gabriel Rufián and the alleged blank check that the Republicans give to the Socialists as they have done since 2019.
And if the spontaneous reaction, after the elections of 28-M was to cry out, on the part of ERC and Junts, in pursuit of a common front, this has been left in little less than borage water and, this Monday, they collided about what “price” they should put on an eventual investiture of Sánchez as president of the Government.
JxCat’s proposal
Nogueras, has launched a proposal to ERC and CUP: not invest any president of the Government if he does not transfer powers to Catalonia to hold an agreed referendum on independence. But the ERC candidate, Rufián, has not picked up the gauntlet from Nogueras, and has opted for also talk about infrastructures, language and schoolsand put aside “the empty phrases that look very good on social networks”.
For his part, the representative of the CUP has opted to “replace” Catalonia in 2017 “with mobilization” in the streets, and has attacked the management that ERC has made of the dialogue table with the State, which does not has brought “self-determination and amnesty” closer.
For his part, the PDECat-Espai Ciu candidate, Roger Montanolahas assured that his formation would vote in favor of demanding an agreed referendum in Catalonia, although he has regretted that the independence movement continues “anchored in 2017”.
Both the PSC candidate, Meritxell Batet, and the PP candidate, Nacho Martín Blanco, have made it clear that there will not be a self-determination referendum in Catalonia, in response to a question from Montañola.
Regional financing
Batet resorted to Pedro Sánchez’s adage that “Catalonia is much better than in 2017, because the law is respected” and added a few grams of epic when explaining the pardons to the prisoners of 1-O: “The president He played it for all of us and for coexistence”.
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And what undoubtedly helped to give the debate a patina of ‘déjà vú’ was the promise of the socialist candidate that, in the event of victory on 23-J, the government resulting from the polls would address, once and for all, the renovation of the financing system. A distribution that has already expired for years, that is, pending reformulation of the system. An update that, by the way, the Generalitat accompanies but does not lead. And it doesn’t for two reasons. For not receiving criticism from the rest of the autonomies and because, after requesting independence, it does not seem the most coherent to bet heavily on the financing reform.
Together and Vox
At the beginning of the debate, Nogueras refused to ask a question to the Vox candidate, Juan José Aizcorbe, who had been drawn by lot: “I have nothing to ask a fascist party.” “If it were for the party that has touched me, today we would not be able to speak Catalan, the National Television of Catalonia would be closed and the Catalan parties would be outlawed. Therefore, I have nothing to ask a fascist party“, Nogueras has waited for the Vox candidate, Juan Jose Aizcorbe. Obviously, the participation of the extreme right raised the temperature on those issues that everyone already assumes. That is to say, Catalonia aside, immigration.