While Pedro Sánchez resisted saying the word amnesty, Carles Puigdemont refrained from talking about unilateralism, but once the taboo was broken by the president of the Government, who needs the support of Junts to win a new investiture, the former president of the Generalitat He has raised the ante by announcing that his party will not renounce the non-agreed path and the clash with the State to achieve the independence of Catalonia.
Barely 24 hours after the PSOE leader met with the Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, to try to advance the negotiations towards a “historic compromise”, Puigdemont put the game back to square one. Spain, he said on Instagram, is facing “a dilemma of complex resolution”: repeat elections or agree with a party that “does not and will not renounce unilateralism as a legitimate resource to assert its rights.”
In the same week in which the council of experts has presented the bases of the clarity agreement commissioned by the Government to hold a hypothetical agreed referendum, Junts distances itself from ERC and redoubles its order, with the trick that the acting Government has to choosing between going to the polls “with the risk that the political balances” that emerge from them “are as fragile as now,” Puigdemont analyzes, or giving in to a formation that “maintains the legitimacy of October 1.”
Yesterday’s message is an excerpt from the conference that the former president gave on September 5 in Brussels and in which he established the amnesty as a precondition to begin negotiating a “historic agreement” with the State, which should also include the recognition and respect for the “democratic legitimacy” of the independence movement and the creation of a verification mechanism for the agreements. Nogueras herself delivered a transcript of that text to Sánchez in their meeting on Friday.
But if after that moment, and after the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, after meeting him in Brussels, stated in an interview in La Vanguardia that “the amnesty can only come from a historic pact, without unilaterality “, had not returned to the matter, something that was interpreted as a predisposition to dialogue, now, with the penal oblivion of all the facts related to the process in the bag, Puigdemont makes the investiture more expensive.
