The day after clearly winning the general elections in Catalonia, the PSC wanted to flee from triumphalism and called for dialogue and collaboration to invest Pedro Sánchez as president. They do so aware of the weight that the seven Junts deputies will have to assemble the necessary majority, either with their vote in favor or with an abstention.
“The results are clear, the numbers support it, I appeal to all of us to rise to the occasion,” assured the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, referring to Puigdemont’s party, to whom he already makes it clear that neither the amnesty nor the self-determination referendum for Catalonia will be on the table when they are ready to speak. For Illa, “it is time to bet on dialogue and collaboration, not on division.”
Illa understands that the elections make it clear that voters from all over the country have voted “for a plural and diverse Spain that must be articulated in a government formula that represents that plurality” led by Pedro Sánchez. In this sense, the leadership of the Catalan socialists has not exchanged any message with those of Junts since election night and they leave the start of the talks in the hands of the parliamentary group when the time comes.
The head of the opposition in Catalonia has also made it clear that in future negotiations to revalidate the PSOE in La Moncloa, agreements in other administrations will not come into play. “The notebooks should not be mixed”, Illa has settled before the option of negotiating some type of agreement with the party of Xavier Trias in the Catalan capital. The mayor himself, Jaume Collboni, has made it clear that “Barcelona will not be a bargaining chip”
