The president of the PPC and head of the party for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, argued this Monday that Salvador Illa’s PSC cannot be included within the “constitutionalist bloc” due to its alliances with the independence movement, which has located “outside the margins of the Constitution” and the spirit of the transition, and has warned that if the socialists want to reach a post-electoral pact with the popular ones they must “break any alliance with the separatists”, both in Congress and in councils and town councils.
“We are never going to play that PSC game in that kind of manipulation with separatism. No way. Turning the page happens because separatism goes to the opposition here (in the Parliament), pacts are broken in Congress and also in councils and city councils,” Fernández said in statements to Cope.
He has also been convinced that if the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, has the possibility of choosing after the next regional elections “he would prefer a thousand times to agree with the separatists than with the PP.” Fernández has accused the PSC of having an “obsession” with power and nothing else, and “if for that they have to be cryptonationalist, Spanishist or half-pensionist, that is what they will be.”
The president of the PPC has identified “classical Catalanism” – that represented at the time by the defunct Convergència i Unió – as one of the first “victims” of the sovereignty process and has shown his respect for the Ciudadanos leaders, although he has regretted that they have made a new “mistake” by not wanting to attend the 12-M elections alongside the popular ones.
Interviewed later on Antena 3, he also referred to the words of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who in an interview with El Mundo has opened the door to conversations with Junts if this party “is reconciled with the law, the Constitution and the Statute”. Fernández has said that he does not see “any inconsistency” between what Feijóo points out and what he defends, since the conditions listed “do not exist today” nor does he believe that they will occur in the future.
After the general elections of June 23 of last year, Fernández’s voice became one of the discordant notes with the strategy set by Feijóo, as the Catalan leader rejected any approach to the independence movement.
