The silence that Junts has imposed is so great that even its website does not respond, down as it has been since August 8. Those of Jordi Turull and Laura Borràs have been silent until now and have not given any clues as to what the orientation of their vote will be this Thursday for the constitution of the Table of Congress. And it is more than likely that they will not say a word until the parliamentary session begins, since the party has summoned its leadership at eight in the morning this Thursday to make a decision. It will be two hours before the activity in the Lower House begins.

In Junts they have not yet made any decision. The call to meet electronically at eight in the morning, no matter how much the pressure on the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez is pushed to the limit, is not a staging. The post-convergents, if nothing changes in the last few hours, will decide at that precise moment.

The negotiating strategy of media silence also requires exhausting deadlines to reinforce it. Thus, the words of Carles Puigdemont make sense: “Facing a negotiation through public statements is not our option. Perhaps for this reason, as decisive days approach, like this coming 17th, nervousness grows and the auction goes up”.

“Patience, perseverance and perspective,” he also prescribed yesterday, while Turull, in his message calling for the leadership meeting, appealed to “be masters of our silences and not slaves to our words (or tweets).” A phrase that seems to have been borrowed (and tuned) from the book Va de mestres, by the renowned educator Jaume Cela. “The moment is transcendent”, adds Turull while thanking the “attitude” of his people “these days”.

The expresident and Turull are the only ones who have been given the power to deal with speculation. And they do it in contrast to the calm and security that Sánchez and the PSOE have exhibited after the elections.

JxCat wants payments in advance. “Would you buy a second-hand car from Pedro Sánchez after these years, in which he has promised investments in exchange for anything and then has not fulfilled them? You have to be naive to do it again”, said Puigdemont a few weeks ago in RAC1. So things seem quite complicated for the Socialists to comply before the 17th, when the Board of the Congress of Deputies is constituted.

Esquerra is also trying to make it difficult for the PSOE. Junts’ firm position and the fact that almost all eyes are exclusively on what Puigdemont will do, has forced the Republicans to toughen up to assert themselves. From raising questions of a merely logistical parliamentary nature (committee presidencies, for example), Oriol Junqueras’ men have come to put political requests on the table: the use of Catalan in Les Corts, investigating espionage with Pegasus and that a law be processed of amnesty.