“Strategic unity” and “common front” in Madrid, is the claim of the independence movement since the results of the general elections were known, which give the sovereignist parties the key to governability. In the control session with the Government that was held this Wednesday in Parliament, the tone between the pro-independence parties has lowered and both Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya have tested the ground to work on a common front. “Let’s take advantage of the opportunity”, has claimed the president Pere Aragonès, who has claimed to put aside the mutual reproaches. “Let’s work together from the maximum demand”, he added in response to the JxCat spokesman, Albert Batet.

It is not the first time that there has been talk of a common pro-independence front, after the municipal elections on May 28 the idea of ??a joint sovereign bloc was already raised, but it did not come to fruition. Now, after a significant loss of votes in the past general elections, Aragonès has shown “all the willingness” to reach an agreement “as soon as possible” with Junts and resolve “the political conflict.” In this sense, he has insisted that they will work better “if they do it together”, and has encouraged his seven deputies and the seven from Junts to “act” together.

For its part, Junts, which has shown in recent days its intention to jointly demand an amnesty law with ERC and the possibility of holding a binding consultation, has claimed “the position of strength and opportunity” that has been opened to them after last Sunday’s results.

What the pro-independence leaders have agreed on in the control session is to recognize the bad result of their political spectrum at the polls. It should be remembered that they lost some 666,000 votes compared to 2019 – counting the PDECat as a sovereign formation. In any case, this circumstance offers different readings depending on who does it, ERC or Junts. In this line, Aragonès has understood that despite making “various readings”, they cannot “be contradictory”. In the assessment of the results by Albert Batet, Junts deputy in Parliament, he stressed that “independence has lost votes” after “four years” in which ERC “has followed a strategy” on its own in Madrid.

On the other hand, in the control session, Aragonès also asked Pedro Sánchez for “courage” and invited him to “make proposals” for Catalonia. In response to a question from Jéssica Albiach, president of the En Comú Podem group, the President announced that “weeks of work, negotiations and political courage are ahead” which, according to Aragonès, “is up to Sánchez” to try to form a government.

Likewise, during the plenary session, the Popular Party has used the control session with the Government to address issues related to the governability of the State. In this sense, Alejandro Fernández, leader of the Catalan PP, addressed Salvador Illa, first secretary of the PSC, more during his speech than to the president, who should have received his question. In his intervention, Fernández asked Illa to take advantage of “the opportunity to end the process” and “send the opposition” to the independence movement.

Thus, Fernández has proposed to the head of the Catalan socialists and former Minister of Health that he lead “an alternative” in Catalonia in exchange for supporting Alberto Núñez Feijóo in Congress. “I am very much afraid that he will prefer to continue being a hostage to Pedro Sánchez,” Fernández concluded.