together lost 140,000 votes in the elections this past Sunday and will have one less seat in the new Congress of Deputies compared to four years ago. However, the seven deputies that he achieved Miriam Nogueras will be decisive in deciding whether Pedro Sanchez It can continue in Moncloa or if the elections have to be repeated. The party leadership will meet this afternoon to establish its position, but the party’s general secretary, Jordi Turullhas already advanced in RAC-1 that does not see the investiture “anywhere” and that the conditions for the PSOE have to go through the amnesty and the transfer of powers to celebrate a Self-determination referendum in Catalonia, something unaffordable for the socialists.
The fact that the key to governance is held by the formation led, de facto, by the ‘expresident’ Carlos Puigdemont has already diverted all eyes to Waterloo. But the scenario has become even more complicated this Monday, after the arrest of the MEP Clara Ponsati and that the prosecution has asked the judge Pablo Llarena to issue an international search and arrest warrant against Carlos Puigdemont. “One day you are decisive in forming a government in Spain and the next day Spain orders your arrest,” Puigdemont ironized in a message on Twitter.
A solution for Puigdemont?
The ‘expresident’ remained at the rear during the municipal elections, where -especially in Barcelona- they were piloted by the pragmatic sectors of the party. However, in these general elections they have carried their stamp, both at a discursive level – “last screen” the demands that ERC- as at the level of commands, with people of maximum confidence at the forefront. One of the main objectives of Junts was to outvote ERC in order to amend its dialogue strategy in Madrid and force a change of course towards independence both in Congress and in Catalonia. Finally, they were 70,000 votes away from achieving itbut they will also force this swerve as they are key for Sánchez to repeat his Government.
The only solution for Puigdemont to be able to return to Spain without being arrested is for him to be given a early pardon. A controversial figure, because by its nature it is only granted once there is a conviction, and not all experts consider that it is included in the law. Not the lawyer’s opinion Francesc Jufresa, who revealed a few weeks ago that he himself offered this possibility to Puigdemont and that the ‘expresident’ flatly rejected it. The hard wing of Junts has always disdained pardons and has accused ERC of seeking “personal solutions” to the conflict, for which they insist that there must be a general amnesty.
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But these might not be the only conditions. To the most pragmatic sector of the party the play of the PSC with the Comuns and the PP still hurts him to leave Xavier Trias Outside the Barcelona City Hall. A movement that, in addition, aggravates the situation of loss of institutional power of the party, which could also try an alliance that makes them return to the government of the Barcelona Provincial Council, who leads the PSC together with the Comuns and two wayward members of the formation. For this reason, a part of JxCat wants to put an agreement on the PSOE table to undo the agreement and share out the mayoralty of the Catalan capital with Jaume Collboni. In fact, Trias already warned on Sunday in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio that the conditions have to be “discussed” internally and that the party has to show that they are “capable” of demonstrating that they are “useful”.
“Personally, I think it’s time to negotiate (and here Barcelona also has to enter), despite the readings that some make of blocking and electoral repetition,” warn sources from this moderate sector. An approach far from the harshness with which the candidate Nogueras expressed herself, after knowing her results, which she assured that she would not shake her “pulse to continue maintaining her position.” “Our priority is Catalonia, not the governability of Spain,” she slipped, amidst stelades and cries of “independence” from the attendees.