Junts per Catalunya MEP Toni Comín has accused the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, of not being concerned about “the success of the negotiation but about the prominence that ERC may have” within the framework of the pacts reached with the PSOE during the investiture process of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
“Aragonès is the same person who makes Junts’ presence at the dialogue table difficult,” Comín said this morning, in an interview on the RTVE program Café d’Idees, in which he added that the president “dissimulates poorly.” that his interest is the image of his government in the negotiations. “Now that Junts has a table, of which everyone is paying attention, now it turns out that Aragonès changes his opinion,” stated the MEP, “now we can go together to dialogue.”
Along the same lines, Comín has expressed himself “surprised” at “ERC’s appeals to negotiate together”, because according to the Junts politician “it has been ERC who has completely avoided this unity in Madrid”. Likewise, the MEP has made it clear that they would only consider negotiating with the other pro-independence formation in the event that “it can be clearly proven” that the Republicans’ intentions respond to “a country’s interest” and not to an interest of the party of “now I lose prominence because Junts’ votes are necessary and now I am interested in going hand in hand with them,” as exemplified by the executive vice president of the Consell de la República.
Comín has criticized that ERC obtained “extraordinarily and excessively poor” results in the negotiations of the last legislature with the PSOE, despite the pardons, which, in the opinion of Junts, had a “wrong” price that they entail, according to the Puigdemont party. , to the renunciation of the unilateral route.
In this same aspect, the MEP has also denounced that Aragonès’ party established as a condition that the socialists not maintain a stable dialogue with Junts. The interviewer, Gemma Nierga, asked the vice president of the Consell if she could offer him evidence about this, to which Comín replied: “if my word is not valid, I cannot give you better proof.”
The Junts per Catalunya deputy has also attacked the ERC proposal for agreed self-determination; “They have not even achieved an amnesty,” he stressed, after highlighting that “it was voted on in the Parliament of Catalonia, and it was rejected.” For this reason, Comín has considered that the President should not continue insisting “on a proposal that does not have a sufficient majority.”
Finally, regarding the amnesty law, the MEP has recovered the statements of the former president of the government Felipe González to explain the relevance it represents for the pro-independence parties: “González explained it very well, and that is why he is so much against the amnesty” Comín pointed out, after remembering the socialist’s words: “pardons are ‘forgiving’, and amnesty is ‘asking for forgiveness’.”
In the same area, the MEP has stated that from Junts “we are making things easy for those of the PSOE” to “explore” the constitutional means to establish an agreed referendum, since according to the formation led by Puigdemont, it is not necessary to reform the constitution but “it has to be interpreted in a different way.”